
Okay, I’m going to say it. . . “Slayer combines Art and Technology to create a beautiful, highly functional design.”
The reason I hesitate to state this bluntly is because it seems like this is an over-used marketing catch phrase–a hackneyed bromide, a gimmick. It seems that every company out there lays claim to bringing these two characteristics together in a single enigmatic product. However, most don’t.
If nothing else, the Slayer espresso machine truly is the result of a conscious effort to reassert the importance of the espresso machine as the iconic centerpiece, the focal point and object, of the Third Wave cafe, while at the same time introducing new brewing capabilities, particularly around the concept of leveraging brew pressure deltas, to get more out of the coffee.
Jason, Dan and I really did start out with the intention of creating a Slayer espresso machine that married Art and Technology to achieve a level of look and functionality that is simply not available in the market at this point. The design brief for Slayer called for a product, custom tailored for the boutique coffee category in form and function. To do this we had to push it.
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