Illy Cup Museam
I went to an espresso cup museum yesterday. Yes that is correct. Illy are a brand of espresso bean accredited with introducing the italian espresso concept to the rest of Europe in the early thirties and since then they have been making a very distinctive shape of espresso cup that is used in countless cafes around the world. Every year they send a box of these cups to an artist and see what they get back – it is usually something pretty wacky. These creations are then put on sale in strictly limited editions for sale to the public. I have the 2002 year cups in pride of place back home. Here are two of the coolest out of the hundreds we saw yesterday:
