La Pavoni – The Perfect Bringing Together of Design, Elegance & Quality
La Pavoni build a range of top quality commercial and domestic espresso machines. The company was founded in 1905 by Desiderio Pavoni at a little workshop in Via Parini, Milan.
Desiderio Pavoni’s first machine had already been patented in 1902. The first ever commercial coffee machine, called the Ideale.
The machine was able to brew continuous shots of coffee (so called ‘espresso’), one directly after another.
Being the first machine of its kind, this model spread the fashion for drinking Italian style espresso coffee at the bar, throughout Europe, then around the World.
The early bar machine used boiling water at low pressure, sometimes causing the coffee to have a sour, burnt flavour.
In 1948 Pavoni designed a new system. Water was taken from the boiler, then using a piston pushed by a spring, forced water through the coffee at 10 Bar pressure. The tasty and creamy coffee brewed under pressure using the piston system no longer had a burnt flavour.
In 1961 Pavoni developed the Europiccola, the first electric espresso machine for domestic use. This machine could brew espresso coffee and hot drinks, just like the way they were made in a coffee bar.
The Europiccola, designed with the help of a Milanese artist, has now become an icon of espresso machine design.
In 1974 the professional model of the Europiccola was introduced. The Professional machine has a larger boiler, able to brew 16 coffees, and an analogue gauge (manometer) showing the boiler pressure.
The Europiccola and Professional represent the perfect bringing together of elegance, quality and reliability. These machines are timeless and are never out of fashion.
The La Pavoni Professional is exhibited in the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
La Pavoni continue to manufacture a range of traditional hand-pumped and innovative electrically-pumped domestic machines, built at their factory in Italy. All La Pavoni domestic machines enable the preparation of excellent coffee at home.
