Are you bored with customized espresso machines but? Good, me neither. Customized espresso machines have actually been all the fashion this summer time, notably La Marzocco Lineas. Officine Fratelli Bambi—La Marzocco’s bespoke espresso machine atelier—created a one-of-a-kind Linea Mini for ultra-runner Nicki Lange, Copenhagen trend model Heliot Emil created one consisting of no straight traces, and product designer Tina Bobbe created a customized uncooked aluminum casing turning the Linea Mini’s boxy form right into a wavy topographical map. It’s been a great summer time for gawking at espresso machines.
And now OFB is again to remodel the Linea Mini into one-of-a-kind masterpiece, and they’re solely utilizing fireplace and oxygen to do it.
Hand-finishing the machines in copper as an alternative of the standard aluminum, OFB used “a brand new artisanal course of developed inside Officine Fratelli Bambi” known as the Fiammata Method to create gorgeous finishes. The method was created by Lorenzo Carcasci, who has spent over three many years shaping metallic for La Marzocco. For it, Carcasci rigorously applies an open flame to the copper, inflicting it to oxidize and create new colours like gold, amber, violet, and deep blue.
All performed with out using paints or dyes, and producing one-of-a-kind designs that can not be reproduced.
The Fiammata Method debuted in collaborated with La Marzocco Mexico in the course of the World Cup to pay tribute to Estadio Azteca, the Mexico Metropolis soccer stadium that hosted lots of the matches, in addition to “celebrating Mexico’s soccer tradition, ritual, and fervour.”
As you may anticipate, the outcomes are unbelievable.
The Fiammata Method is now a part of OFB’s “everlasting inventive language” and may be included into any machine produced by the atelier.
At this level I’m simply hoping that I’ve put sufficient good will on this world {that a} supply truck will occur to be driving down one explicit residential road when a field containing a Fiammata Linea Mini falls off the again of it. Then after a great religion effort to attempt to discover the purchaser, I’ll resign to putting in it on my countertop till the proprietor is discovered. That is the most definitely approach that I’ll ever personal one in every of these machines that my life now feels incomplete with out.
For mor data, go to Officine Fratelli Bambi’s official web site.
Zac Cadwalader is the managing editor at Sprudge Media Community and a workers author based mostly in Dallas. Learn extra Zac Cadwalader on Sprudge.
