This traditional Turkish coffee maker, or ibrik, is the brainchild of French architect JEAN-MICHEL WILMOTTE. This sleek chrome design betrays its architectural roots, and through half-closed eyes it even resembles an angular, upside-down skyscraper. WILMOTTE designed the piece for Italian design firm SAWAYA & MORONI, whose work combines traditions and cultures from places all over the globe. SAWAYA & MORONI also have an architectural background.

Although the pot retains the conventional long handle of its predecessors, it’s done away tradition in other respects. By flipping the coffee pot’s usual shape on its head, making the neck wider than the base, it gives an ancient form an entirely new edge. Whether or not this affects the brewing of the coffee itself, we’ll have to see. Either way, this coffee pot is a sleek and stylish piece of design that we’d be proud to have knocking around the kitchen.

Written by Siobhan Leddy

Images courtesy of Sawaya & Moroni