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Andrea Illy,
Francesco Illy,
Matteo Thun,
Achille Bonito Oliva,
Michelangelo Pistoletto,
Neil Aitken,
Hannah Anderson,
Francis Ford Coppola,
Ernesto Illy,
Vittoria Illy,
Marina Abramovic,
Louise Bourgeois,
David Byrne,
Sandro Chia,
Mario Giacomelli,
Jeff Koons,
Joseph Kosuth,
Jannis Kounellis
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Type of bind: Hardcover
Dewey Decimal Number: 745
EAN num: 9788881584062
ISBN number: 8881584069
Label: Charta
Manufacturer: Charta
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 212
Printing Date: April 02, 2003
Publishing house: Charta
Release Date: April 02, 2003
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Studio: Charta
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Which is more important, the coffee you drink or the cup you drink it from? The choice is a difficult one for any aesthete to make, and it is only highlighted and intensified by famed Italian coffeemaker illycaff , which, since 1933, has been producing one of the world's greatest espressos, and which, since 1992, has been commissioning limited-edition coffee cup designs from internationally renowned and emerging artists, musicians, and filmmakers. If the story of the coffee begins with Francesco Illy in Trieste, the story of the cup begins in 1990 with architect and engineer Matteo Thun, who designed a white espresso cup to the exacting specifications of the Illy family. The volume and diameter had to be just so, the rim had to accept resting lips in a most practical manner, and the all-important bowl at the bottom of the cup had to conserve heat effectively. Once the prototype was approved, the family set about having it transformed with original work by the likes of Sandro Chia, Nam June Paik, James Rosenquist, Robert Rauschenberg, David Byrne, Francis Ford Coppola, Joseph Kosuth, Jeff Koons, Marina Abramovic, Michelangelo Pistoletto, Michel Comte, Jannis Kounellis, and Louise Bourgeois. Good to the last drop--unless coffee isn't your cup of tea.
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Illy to some is the best coffee in the world, I can't say that since I have not tasted them all but I do love Illy, especially their espresso pods, but Illy is more than just coffee, they represent the most advanced and yet the most simple of pleasures... and their cup embodies that. This book is all about that, It covers the creation and a good decade's worth of artisitic varatations on the Illy cup.
I have been bitten by the Illy Collection bug and own a few of the sets, it's nice to have this book as a guide to the "expensive" past. The only problem is that the collection is only through 2003, so it is missing the 2004/2005 cups. Espresso has never been so stylish!
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