Some objects used in the kitchen, which have now become icons of the 70s , were created by famous designers such as Marco Zanuso and Richard Supper.
An example is the Terraillon kitchen scale. Who didn’t have it at home? Practical and colorful, it was designed by the couple of famous architects and designers Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper . Designed in 1969, it was small in size: closed it was 11.5cm high, 11cm deep, 16.5cm wide. The novelty concerned above all the food container which, when turned upside down, was transformed into a sort of cap giving the scale an innovative square shape.
In 1979 the two designers then ventured separately into two coffee makers that made the history of 70s design.
Marco Zanuso created the “Carmencita” coffee maker for Lavazza, kept in the Permanent Collection of Italian Design at the Milan Triennale. Its particular shape comes from the famous conical puppets used in those years for advertising the famous coffee.
Richard Supper instead designed the “9090” coffee maker for Alessi, a high-level example of Italian design combined with innovative technology. Entirely made of 18/10 stainless steel, polished on the outside and satin-finished on the inside, it is equipped with a particular and patented opening system that has made it famous all over the world. You own it
one more? Remember that this coffee maker is exhibited in the Design Collection of the MOMA in New York.