Product Overview
Pulcina 6 cup black version
Stovetop Espresso Maker
Michele de Lucchi for Illy Coffee and Alessi 2015 & 2021 black version
Aluminum / Polyamide
[H 10.25" x Ø4.75"]
Presented in 2015, the Pulcina espresso coffee maker won over the public for its evocative design and its high performance. In the black version, the light plays with the unique stepped shape. Designed by Michele De Lucchi, Pulcina contains a small but revolutionary innovation that enhances the full-bodied taste of coffee. Dedicated to those who do not want to renounce the taste and aroma of coffee offered by an espresso coffee machine, but want to experience this daily ritual in a special way.
A revolutionary product that combines the technology developed by Illy Coffee with Alessi’s design experience. “Pulcina” is the product of intense research into the optimisation of the shape of the Coffee pot in order to improve and enhance the organoleptic properties of coffee. Illy has identified the ideal shape that the water boiler should take to produce the perfect coffee. Thanks to the internal shape of its special heater, Pulcina automatically stops filtering the coffee at the right moment.
“The Pulcina was born ‘in the mountains,’ in the year that I drew only mountains.
The mountains are beautiful because they touch and penetrate the sky and the clouds.
The mountains are beautiful like in the contours of architects plans because they are made of layers like ‘lasagna.’ And each layer has a different shape.
They are called isobars and are lines that define the height above sea level.
Isobars lines are always closed.
The sea has only one isobar.
Mount Everest is the mountain with the most isobars.
Also we have a lot of isobars in our fingerprints.
The map of the world may sometimes seem it was stamped by a giant’s fingerprints and who knows if that is really not the case.” - Michele De Lucchi
