The Italian entrepreneur know for the iconic Moka and the “Little Man with a Moustache, has died in Ascona, at the age of 93.
Italy and its “coffee-drinkers population” have witnessed an important loss during these last days: on February 11st, 2016 Renato Bialetti died at the age of 93 in his house in Ascona (Canton Ticino – Southern Switzerland).
Bialetti invented the Moka Express in 1933, the well-known coffee maker that suddenly became one of the most iconic symbols of the Made in Italy worldwide and in the 1950’s he named one of the most important companies in Italy: a brand that transformed the art of making coffee into an action so simple and natural that it has become an essential rite in every Italian home.
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