Espresso is to coffee, as good design is to art. You can call any old thing coffee and any old thing art. But to truly be set aside and aspire to the perfection of espresso or Great art. Espresso as a whole is an experience from the moment you grind your beans to the second you take the first sip.
A fitting extension of this process is a beautiful machine like this handcrafted bare wood espresso machine built entirely from Norwegian wood to give a more Nordic sensibility to the traditional Italian beverage. Breathtaking. Credit Øystein Husby, Audun Grimstad, Åsne Kydland and Mariko Kurioka Rohde, for achieving a wonderful balance between cultures.
