7 Luxury Coffee Machines To Know
Whether you’re an amateur barista or just want caffeine on tap – here are some of the best coffee machines.
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Working from home may mean that you’re missing your favourite cafe and that coffee pods just aren’t cutting it. With a newfound need for barista skills and the best equipment for the job, here are seven of the best and most beautiful coffee machines on the market.
Kees Van Der Westen – Speedster
The Speedster is a café favourite, often spotted racing coffees out the door of your favourite local. They’ve got this nifty number for the home complete with, shot timer, eco-mode for efficiency, two temperature-controlled boilers a large steam and coffee boiler capacity all made from high-grade stainless steel and stunning engine turned body panels.
$15,995; keesvanderwesten.com
Rocket Espresso – Porta Via
The Porta Via brings new meaning to ‘coffee to go’, the industrial quality coffee machine is built into a hard-wearing carry case making it a portable addition to your kitchen. At 29kg it comes with a lever-action group, pressure gauge and coffee boiler and is rapidly ready for a brew in 10 minutes.
$4299; espressocompany.com.au
Jura – GIGA 6
For a ‘hands off’ coffee, it’s hard to look past the Jura Giga 6. The scope of the GIGA 6 is impressive, it boasts 28 different specialties, all at the press of its 4.3-inch high-res display. It’s perfect for those who want everything automated, just load the twin hoppers with your beans of choice and select. Or better still, just order through the Jura App or tell Siri to make it for you.
$6490; jura.com
La Marzocco – Linea Mini
La Marzocco is the industry standard in café quality machines – with its history dating back almost 100 years to the streets of Florence. These fun little machines are perfect for home use with its simple controls, easy-to-read gauges, in-built temperature controller all bundled into a tidy package available in a range of bright colours.
$5990; lamarzocco.com
Gaggenau – 400 Series Coffee Machine
While all the coffee machines on this list try to be design-conscious, none are at the level of the built-in Gaggenau 400 Series. Its subtle design is coupled with tech that’s smart enough to remember eight specific orders and make near limitless combinations. The fully automatic, self-cleaning espresso machine allows for professional standard coffee, instantly and with minimal effort and with Gaggenau’s ‘home connect’ can literally take the process out of your hands.
$6999; gaggenau.com
Superveloce – Flat Six
You may have seen its Porsche inspired coffee machine doing the rounds, but beyond homages to German engineering, Superveloce makes a number of motoring and aeronautically inspired machines. Take the Flat-Six, with its Boxer Engine inspired stainless steel, titanium and alloy construction and carbon fibre cam cover. Just load it with your ground beans, or favourite capsule of choice and let the machine do the work.
Approx. $15,690; Superveloce.co
Slayer Espresso – Slayer Single Group
A coffee machine that shares the name of such an infamous heavy metal band is sure to have some guts about it. Commercial-grade head, steam valves and brew actuator combine with a touchscreen interface to blur the lines between café and home use while the ash wood handles, and actuators and stainless-steel finishes give it a handsome look.
$13,500; slayerespresso.com
Chris Dixon, a partner who led the charge, says he has a ‘very long-term horizon’
Americans now think they need at least $1.25 million for retirement, a 20% increase from a year ago, according to a survey by Northwestern Mutual
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More than 280 modern and contemporary artworks will be up for sale Friday at Christie’s Post-War to Present auction in New York.
The live sale, which will be held at Christie’s Rockefeller Center sale room, has a low estimate of more than US$27 million and will be led by Frank Stella’s Abra I, 1968, which is estimated to fetch between US$1.2 million and US$1.8 million, according to a news release from Christie’s.
“Abra I is a fantastic example by Stella, a large-scale canvas from the protractor series,” says head of sale Julian Ehrlich. “It engages so many crucial aspects of his practice, including scale, geometry and colour, and has appeal to established post-war collectors and others who are just coming to historical art.”
Ehrlich, who has overseen the semiannual Post-War to Present sale since its first March 2022 auction, says his goal in curating the sale was to “assemble a thoughtful and dynamic auction” with works from both popular and lesser-known artists.
“With Post-War to Present, we really have a unique opportunity to share new artistic narratives at auction. It’s a joy to highlight new artists or artists who have been overlooked historically and be a part of that conversation in a larger art world context,” he says.
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Works from a number of female artists who were pioneers of post-war abstract painting, including Helen Frankenthaler, Lynne Drexler, and Hedda Sterne, will be included. The auction will also include pieces from a group of Black artists from the 1960s to present day, including Noah Purifoy, Jack Whitten, and David Hammons, in addition to a Christie’s debut from Joe Overstreet (Untitled, 1970) and an auction debut from Rick Lowe (Untitled, 2021).
“The story of art is necessarily diverse,” Ehrlich says. “The sale itself is broad, with more than 280 works this season, and it has been fun to think through artists inside and outside of the canon that we can put forward as highlights of the auction.”
In addition to Abra I, other top lots include Tom Wesselmann’s Seascape #29, 1967, (with an estimate between US$800,000 and US$1.2 million); Keith Haring’s Andy Mouse, 1986, (also with an estimate between US$800,000 and US$1.2 million); and Jack Whitten’s Garden in Bessemer, 1986 (with an estimate between US$700,000 andUS$1 million).
“I think of the Post-War to Present sale as being especially dynamic … in the best case, even for someone deeply embedded in the market, there should be works which surprise and delight and are unexpected, as well as celebrated market-darlings and art-historical greats,” Ehrlich says.
Chris Dixon, a partner who led the charge, says he has a ‘very long-term horizon’
Americans now think they need at least $1.25 million for retirement, a 20% increase from a year ago, according to a survey by Northwestern Mutual
