Best contours: The Anticline coffee pot

This remarkable stove-top espresso maker takes its name from the ‘anticline’ geological formation, whereby molten rock rises and cools leaving undulating layers, and we love that it also mimics the rise and fall of water as it becomes coffee in the alchemical process that we habitually take for granted. ‘It’s inspired by the geological folds in the landscape near where my father lives,’ says its designer, Nathaniel Wojtalik, founder of Brooklyn-based Cultivation Objects. ‘We used to spend a lot ...