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In the city of culture, design and fashion - Milan - you can taste old-time espresso coffee thanks to Espresso made in Italy: history, culture, and design of espresso coffee machines.
From 29th of May to the 3rd of June, Enrico Maltoni Collection will be hosted at the ARCI Club “La Scighera” in Milan, one of the biggest cultural clubs in the area.
The exhibition is open to the public and is sponsored by the Province of Milan, also promoter of the conference on “Anthropology of coffee. A way of drinking culture”, which is to take place on Saturday 2nd of June at the ARCI Club in Via Candiani 131, in the district of Bovisa.
All coffee “ladies” exhibited bear the signature by the most important Italian designers and architects: from Gio Ponti to Enzo Mari, from Bruno Munari to Brothers Castiglioni and Marco Zanuso.
The history, the design, the culture and curiosities about the Italian-style espresso coffee machines are the theme of this unique travelling exhibition: Espresso made in Italy: history, culture, and design.
Over twenty years of attentive investigations, constant and accurate restoration interventions by part of Mr. Maltoni - an enthusiastic collector and an expert of old espresso coffee machines - allow the visitor to admire at and to discover the most beautiful and important bar coffee machines in the world, perfectly brought back to their past beauty.
Enrico Maltoni's Collection - the largest in the world - will be hosted at the ARCI Club “La Scighera” from 29th of May to 3rd of June, during the conference on “Anthropology of coffee. A way of drinking culture”, which is to take place on Saturday 2nd of June in the Club seat of Via Candiani 131, in the district of Bovisa.
Thanks to the interest shown by the prestigious vending magazine D.A. Italia and to the sponsorship of Lavazza, Rancilio and Eat a Cup, the exhibition will include 10 coffee machines which have marked the history of espresso coffee machine design from the origins in the early Nineteenth century to present day.
The first patent for a coffee machine was realized by an engineer from Milan - Luigi Bezzera -, who created in 1901 a sophisticated cylindrical model, also known as “column-shaped“ coffee machine capable of brewing coffee with water and vapour. From that period also come the model Ideale realized in 1905 at the La Pavoni factory - Milan -, formerly used in a Café of Piazza S.Marco in Venice, and the model Extra produced by Victoria Arduino in the Twenties.
In the second post-war period, Gaggia replaced the piston-system "column-shaped" coffee machine with the Classica 1948, capable of producing the modern delicate "coffee cream" – from that moment on, coffee stops tasting bitter. Other coffee machine models then followed, including the Rancilio model Preziosa 1953, one of the most sought-after examples among collectors and now exhibited in Milan.
Visitors will also have the opportunity of discovering authentic masterpieces of Italian design, such as the Urania produced by Faema in 1955 and designed by Bruno Munari and Enzo Mari, up to the squared and linear forms of the Sixties, such as the model Z-8 signed by designer Marco Zanuso for Rancilio and the model Pitagora produced in 1962 by La Cimbali and designed by brothers Castiglioni, winners in that year of the Italian design contest "Compasso d’Oro".
Contemporary design is represented by Rancilio Classe 10 and by the state-of-the-art model B.L.U.E. LB 1000 (Best Lavazza Ultimate Espresso) designed by Pininfarina, still being the evolution and the future of espresso coffee. Each coffee machine exhibited comes together with the well-known sets of coffee cups by Lavazza.
All the Collection is described in full detail in the book Espresso made in Italy 1901-1962, available for sale at the exhibition location (also published in English).
DOWNLOAD Programma manifestazione
- Rancilio - Mostra Maltoni .pdf
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