COFFEE
MACHINE “X1”
The X1 was Luca
Trazzi’s first espresso coffee machine. Presented in 1995 and sold
in twenty-eight countries, the magazine WIRED described its design
as retro-futuristic.
Coffee-maker X1 for
Francis Francis, possesses a simple, provocative design,
characterized by the central thermometer, and by the metal switch.
It is a design against fashion that will never grow old, which
recalls certain details of the Fiat 500's dashboard.
X1 also wants to refer to a manual or gestural use reminiscent of
bygone days, no more buttons but levers and knobs. Indicating lights
coupled with the manometer function to interact and make the user
participate with the object and its function.
X1 wants to work simultaneously with and against the current trends
of design.
The simplicity of the line, the elegant sinuosity of the curves
evoke the period of the sixties and seventies in Italian Design.
However, only a vague impression of that period is felt in the
design, not a complete return to the historical period.
The X1 is a sober and smart object, expressing unequivocally its
use. The object identifies its use on first impact representing at
best these affirmations.
The round and passive forms, an easy identification of the object’s
use and the completion of an action that brings a moment of relax,
identifies the XI as an object that will last throughout time, that
will have a natural lifetime.
This coffee machine
has a spectrum of many colours.
The acronym “X1”
identifies a secret code in which X indicates a project and the
numbers (X1,X2,X3….) a series of experiments of Design tied to
different experiences. |