- Revolutionary Technology By illycaffè: Pulcina is a high performance coffee maker with a specially designed boiler that stops dispensing the espresso at the right time before the coffee gets a bitter aftertaste. Application of the technology developed by illycaffè.
- Groundbreaking Design: Designed by world renowned architect Michele De Lucchi for beauty, function, and unrivaled taste. Low-pressure pre-infusion gradually increases water pressure to gently expand grinds for an even extraction, balanced flavor and thick crema.
- Alessi Ethical Manufacturing: Building a purpose beyond profit and economics is vital for a solid business, and the commitment of Alessi to create products which make people’s lives better is priority.
- Premium Quality Cast: An authentic partnership between Alessi, Michele de Lucchi, and illy, Produced the finest most revolutionary mocha coffee maker. Anti-drip design ‘V’ shaped spout, perfectly cuts the drops of coffee.
- More Then The Perfect Gift: Alessi espresso makers are a true treasure for any authentic espresso lover. Alessi products are as functional as they are conversation starting. A gift for someone who has everything.
From the manufacturer
Pulcina
Alessi
Designer: Michele de Lucchi
Espresso coffee maker Pulcina
The Designer
The company
Founded in 1921 as a “Workshop for the processing of brass and nickel silver sheet metal, with foundry”, Alessi has always stood out for the high quality of its products.
In almost a century of history, the company has gradually evolved to become one of the leading “Factories of Italian design”, capable of applying its expertise and excellence in design management to many different product types.
Open to change and international development, Alessi at the same time has a strong bond with the traditions and cultural background of its area and continues to be synonymous with handcrafted objects produced with the help of machines.
Alessigraphy: the geography of Alessi production
Since the Company’s foundation in 1921 the majority of Alessi products have been manufactured through the cold working of metals, a tradition that is kept alive today by the skilled workers at the Crusinallo plant in Omegna.
Over time, Alessi also began to work with many other materials, such as porcelain, glass, wood, and plastic… A specific production method was developed for each one. Even when production takes place outside the Crusinallo plant, Alessi’s guidelines guarantee the company’s original production quality standards, continuing to reconcile industrial technological complexity with an artisanal eye for detail.
The objects produced from the different materials are manufactured in various production plants across the world. They remain original Alessi objects in that they are conceived with the same design excellence and produced with the same attention to quality that sets the company’s products apart.