the importance of coffee (drinking rituals) & beth fuller’s • michael weaker’s nespresso concepts

the importance of coffee: beth fuller’s & michael weaker’s nespresso coffee concepts, which are at the end of all the other images and worth seeing . . .

the milk brother, from po-chih lai

the milk brother • moka milk frother is inherited from the moka pot, also known as a macchinetta (literally “small machine”), a stove top coffee maker which produces coffee by passing hot water pressurized by steam through ground coffee. moka pot was first patented by inventor luigi de ponti for alfonso bialetti in 1933. bialetti industrie continues to produce the same model under the name “moka express”.

in 1996 phil patton* wrote an article, for the (then) editor of id magazine,
chee pearlman, called: caution contents hot ! it started out like this, “like most americans, i spend a lot of time on the road and drink a lot of coffee while i’m there. lids began to pile up on my car floor and i noticed how many varieties there were, how various and intricate the device is and how intensely designed they were . . . ”

the coffee lids story-updated, by phill patton*

the atlantic: the rise of the plastic, disposable coffee cup lid, by nicola twilley

edible geography: the evolution of lids, also by nicola twilley

design observer: kirsten hively’s collection of coffee cup lids & registration marks

the image below is from, louise harpman & scott specht’s
“peel, pucker, pinch, puncture,” cabinet magazine:
http://www.cabinetmagazine.org/issues/19/harpman.php

“a coffee place is a public space” velopresso participating in richard rogers’
royal academy of arts, exhibit “inside out,” in london in 2013 . . .
velopresso, the pedal-powered coffee trike

* a disconnected link to “top this” by phil patton & photography by james wojcik

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