Braun KF 20 Aromaster, 1972 Electric Drip Coffee Maker Designed By
Braun KF 20 Aromaster, 1972 This coffee maker’s success led to numerous versions from other electric drip coffee maker manufacturers, helping to make designed by Florian Seiffert coffee consumption a more casual made in Germany and constant part of our daily lives. water in top heating coil boils water water drips through ground coffee 1970 US Design Patent coffee brewed into carafe (up to 8 cups) heating pad keeps coffee warm As a student, Florian Seiffert won the Braun Prize in 1968, and went on to work as a designer there from 1968–1973 Coffee: 15th century: Arabia 16th century: Persia, Egypt, Syria, Turkey Instructions for the coffee 17th century: England, Holland, France, maker include text in German, through colonies in Java, Indonesia, English, Spanish, Italian, Sumatra, Celebes, Martinique, the French, Dutch, Danish, Caribbean, South and Central America Norwegian, and Finnish Japan, c.1650 US, 1893 US, 1941 Germany, 1958 Coffee grounds Percolation sends Filtered drip coffee Wigomat uses electricity mixed in hot water, boiling water over allows more control to heat water and brew left to settle. contained grounds over brewing and flavor drip coffee in one apliance Name: Matthew Bird Item: Braun KF20 Coffee Maker Describe the basics of this object. 1. What is it? An electric drip coffee maker 2. What is it called? Braun KF 20 Aromaster 3. When was it made? 1972 4. Where is or was the object available? Europe, America certainly, maybe farther. 5. What did it cost? This was not a cheap coffee maker. 135 DM in 1972 (which was $42 then, and which would be around $240 today) Formal Analysis (what it looks like): 6.
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