International lifestyle brands Nespresso and Shanghai Tang have joined forces for the first time to create the Shanghai Tang for Nespresso Dragon Collection.

This collection brings together Nespresso’s much loved capsule coffees and Shanghai Tang’s contemporary luxury interpretations of Chinese heritage

It has been specially created to celebrate the spirit of coffee inline with the upcoming Lunar Chinese New Year and the auspicious Year of the Dragon.

Starbucks Corp. announced this week that it will be providing single-serve coffee to half a million hotels across the US.

The latest deal will see Starbucks coffee delivered via Courtesy Products’ CVI one-cup brewing machine systems in 500,000 luxury hotels.

Starbucks has been making a string of announcements in the last few weeks indicating a strong interest in expanding their reach into the one-cup brewing market, currently dominated by machine-makers Keurig and Tassimo in the US.

Bugatti’s Diva espresso machine is getting a crystal makeover.

Andreas Seegatz designed this espresso machine that features 14,000 swarovski crystals ! Source: Bornrich

BMW Group DesignworksUSA, an international design studio and subsidiary of BMW Group, announced yesterday that it has developed a new coffee machine for Saeco called Xsmall.

The BMW Saeco Xsmall is the smallest model in the company’s portfolio and comes with a two-color combination of the machines with a strong color contrast.

The operating elements of the BMW Saeco Xsmall are decoratively placed at the focal point of the typical, half-closed colored casing, crowning the 360-degree surface design.

The design of the BMW Saeco Xsmall has been developed for the Xsmall stands for emotion, passion and quality.

Blue Bottle Café in San Francisco is now serving coffee from the only halogen-powered coffee machine which looks like a machine from a Jules Verne novel.

Called a siphon bar, it was imported from Japan at a total cost of more than $20,000.

The New York Times reports that a cup of coffee from this contraption, which is described as the USA’s first halogen-powered model, includes a “kaleidoscopic” range of flavors.

This bling encrusted Nespresso Crystal Coffee Machine from Goldstriker International must be a contender.
Features include:

• Encrusted with 3100 original Swarovski crystals complete in the colour crystal
• Width: 22.6 cm depth: 23 cm height: 23 cm
• Weight: 4,50 kg Power: 1260 Watts
• Cup warmer in aluminum
• Removable grill for the preparation of Latte Macchiato

It is priced at £1,995