Death Anniversary: Alfonso Bialetti — March 5, 1970
Alfonso Bialetti (Omegna, 17 June 1888 – 5 March 1970), who invented the Moka Express in 1933, died at eighty-one. His octagonal coffee pot is today among the most widely owned objects of Italian design anywhere in the world, and is in the collection of MoMA in New York. Anniversary documented by Cultural Heritage Online.
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