In 1951 Victoria Arduino also made a transportable stand named ‘Carrel bar’, with a gas boiler chamber made precisely for traveling street baristas. This mobile bar became an essential part of events, exhibitions also found on the sidewalks of central train stations.
In the 1950s’ Victoria Arduino created its first automatic token coffee machine, kind of like those machines we often see everywhere nowadays.
At the end of the 1960s’, the production of vertical machines started to be appreciated again. It was during this era that the new models ‘Venus’ and ‘Venus family’ we created and still today have an important production and success. The ‘Venus family’ was distinct for its vibration pump.
At the end of 2001, Michele Mercandelli, owner of the company, decided to hand over Victoria Arduino to Nuova Simonelli.The two companies were already collaborating for different years, so the acquisition was finalized for this reason. It is thanks to this cooperation that the project started by Pier Teresio Arduino in the first 1900s’ began to flourish. He desired a bigger picture of the company, not only selling coffee machines but integrating philosophical and literary theories and spread the coffee culture worldwide.
In 2005, on the occasion of its 100th anniversary, Victoria Arduino launched a collection piece named ‘Venus Century.’ It was a vertical espresso coffee machine with minimal styling and made only 100 pieces. The machine numbered ‘000’ was donated to the then Pope Benedict XVI that was a coffee lover himself.
Mythos: the new generation on-demand grinders with advanced technology and thoughtful details that satisfy even the most demanding barista.
In 2015, the world saw for the first time the VA388 Black Eagle, the top tier machine of the range, with high-end technology that lets the barista fully embrace the uniqueness of specialty coffee.To build this superb machine, the company put together a team of qualified researchers, professionals, designers, and high-level baristas.The result was the creation of an eye-catching coffee machine that became the center attraction of every café counter it adorns.
The best baristas worldwide deserve the best equipment to show their top performances on a global scale. From 2015, VA388 is the official coffee machine used in the World Barista Championship.
Roasted coffee needs to remain “young” to express all its aromas. However, it is also a fact that it should not be that fresh either. A fresh coffee bean is the result of the short time passed between the roasting and the consumption, this can be a problem for baristas, and of course, they would […]
