A box of beech stained the color of walnut, a polished steel dome on top, a crank with a dark wooden knob, and a drawer below for the grounds. You turn it slowly and it crunches. Peugeot made its first coffee mill in 1840, long before it made cars. By 1889 its Beaulieu factory was turning out 450,000 coffee grinders a year.
- Material
- Lacquered beech, steel grinding mechanism
- Dimensions
- 21 cm tall