A designer coffee break at the ADI Museum -
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During Milan Design Week 2022, MUMAC organized the “Heritage and design behind coffee machines” panel discussion in which professionals in Italian culture and design, moderated by Patrick Abbattista, Founder & CEO of Design Wanted, gathered at the ADI Design Museum, the heart of Italian design history, to discuss how style, design and innovation are increasingly […]

Design for a new economic miracle  -
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by Antonella Andriani   When you think about design in relation to coffee machines, the first association that comes to mind is the Pitagora designed by brothers Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for LaCimbali: the first and only coffee machine to have won the ADI Compasso d’Oro in the award’s almost seventy-year history; it remains […]

In the sense of the present -
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The present requires care in the archaic sense of responsibility for how we regard today in order to face tomorrow. We lived through months of lack: lack of normality, lack of contact, lack of simple acts like chatting over coffee. However, we have learned, thanks to the lack of these things, to appreciate what is present, especially when it demonstrates intention and participation, because it becomes a real tribute to the res publica.