Almost a miniature monument, La cupola coffee maker is the result of Aldo Rossi's investigation over the years, seeking a synthesis between architecture and product design. A coffeehouse-temple, at once a tower and a basilica, with clear references to the forms and proportions of existing architectural works, La cupola celebrates the coffee ritual with ironic blending of the sacred and the profane, pursuing the dream of a domestic landscape constructed and designed, appropriately enough, as an analogue of urban space.
Aldo Rossi
Born in Milan (1931-1997), he is considered by many to be the greatest Italian architect of the second half of the 20th century. His life as an architect started with Gardella and Zanuso. An author of abstraction, reduction and brevitas, his severe language of primary shapes, geometrical patterns and silent evocation created some of the most intensely poetic works of architecture and design in his age.
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