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PUBLISHED 9 Aug 2010 - 4:41pm
AUTHOR: William Shaw
Richard Sapper Alessi 9090 coffee maker
I stole it from my father fifteen years ago. He saw it in the background of a photo and said, "hey!"

Antto Melsasniemi: 'If I answer that from a hedonistic point of view I could say there are many things I would not like to be without. Condoms maybe? But I will choose my coffee maker. I have several but this is the one I use most often because it works so well. My father bought this one when I was travelling with him in Italy many years ago and I stole it - or took it, quietly. It wasn't until last year he saw it in the background of a photograph of me and he said, "Hey!" It's the Alessi Richard Sapper 9090.'

Antto Mesasniemi is a Finnish restraunteur and is one of the figures behind Hel Yes!, a pop-up design restaurant that features in this year's London Design Festival


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