Gold Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design · 2022
La Espresso Espresso Maker for Travel
by Yun Yun Hung
- A' Design Award 2022 Gold Winner in Bakeware, Tableware, Drinkware and Cookware Design
- Awarded April 15, 2022
- CLIENT: Hung Yun
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About La Espresso Espresso Maker for Travel
La Espresso is a portable espresso maker designed for travel. La Espresso is a non-electric coffee set that combines heating, grinding, extraction and milk frothing in one compact system. The brewing handle, a familiar symbol of espresso preparation, acts as the point of force for extraction. The set includes a grinder, an extraction cylinder, a milk frothing cup and a portable gas burner. Stainless steel, metal, zinc alloy and rubber are used. A dedicated travel bag protects each piece, so coffee can be prepared and shared away from home.
YUN-YUN HUNG's La Espresso Espresso Maker for Travel represents a thoughtful contribution to the evolving tradition of portable beverage preparation, demonstrating how considered design can elevate functional objects into expressions of refined contemporary living. The modular system appears to engage with longstanding design principles established by twentieth-century masters who championed the unity of form and function, suggesting an awareness of systematic design thinking where each component serves both practical purpose and aesthetic coherence within the larger ensemble. The restrained material palette of matte-finished metal bodies accented by warm metallic bands evokes the sophisticated neutrality favored in contemporary interior design while simultaneously honoring the rich visual heritage of coffee culture, where copper, brass, and bronze have historically signified quality and craftsmanship. Technical achievement manifests in the precise helical grooves that articulate each cylindrical section, introducing visual interest through geometric repetition while potentially serving functional purposes related to thermal management or structural integrity. The compositional presentation employs conventions of aspirational product photography, positioning the objects as desirable artifacts that promise to enhance daily rituals and travel experiences through thoughtful engineering and visual refinement. Thematic resonance emerges through the juxtaposition of precision-manufactured components with scattered organic coffee beans, suggesting a dialogue between human technological ingenuity and natural agricultural abundance that underlies global coffee culture. The viewer might consider how such objects mediate between efficiency-driven modern lifestyles and the slower pleasures of artisanal beverage preparation, inviting reflection on the rituals we carry with us and the tools that enable meaningful pauses in our journeys.
Press Kit
- Unique Properties
- Travel-style coffee set. The traditional La espresso machine is not portable. With the structure of a non-electric espresso machine, it integrates all the brewing coffee processes from heating, grinding beans, extracting, and frothing, so those coffee lovers can feel like drinking coffee at home.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Grinde+handler:265X64x129(mm)
Espresso Maker+handle:212X64x180X(mm)
Milk froth cup:78x113x67(mm)
portable gas burner:212x64x69x(mm) - Tags
- coffee， Coffee machine，Espresso Maker
- Production Technology
- stainless steel，metal，zinc alloy，rubber
- Project Duration
- The project started in November 2020 in Taipei and finished in February 2021 in TAIWAN Taipei.
- Operation Flow
- 1.Traveling with LA ESPRESSO
2.Take the coffee platform and place the coffee utensils.
3.Start heating hot water,preheat the cylinder and extract.
4.Grind the coffee beans quickly to spread the powder on the powder tray and compact it.
5.Combine the tray and extraction appliance based on the coffee powder disc.
The cylinder introduces hot water and waits for seconds, adds the piston and the force handle, stabilizes the pressure, and easily extracts for 20-35 seconds.
6.Heating milk + frothing milk.
7.Enjoy a cup of good coffee. - Inspiration
- The brewing handle as the symbol of espresso coffee is integrated into the coffee-making to maintain a familiar feel.Combined with the brewing hand, the shape of the handle gives users the feel of making coffee.People could have the feeling of undertaking falling powder at home.The browing handle becomes the point of o force for extraction, The exclusive coffee travel storage bag protects each coffee-making set. Whether you are traveling or making friends, you can easily share coffee.