The Faema Baby (often called the Baby Faemina) is one of the most distinctive home espresso machines ever made. Produced by Faema in the late 1950s and 1960s, it was a compact manual lever machine designed to bring true espresso into the home at a time when most espresso technology was still confined to cafés. It's highly collectible among vintage espresso enthusiasts.
The Baby Faemina is fascinating because it is neither a traditional lever machine nor a pump machine. Introduced around 1956, it was marketed by Faema as a compact "hydro-compression" espresso maker for the home. Instead of using a boiler, electricity, or a spring piston, it uses two external levers to generate brewing pressure directly.
...Lever enthusiasts often describe the Cafelat Robot as the closest modern descendant of the Baby
Finding replacement parts can be challenging, which is why complete examples command the strongest prices among collectors. on the same idea nearly 70 years later.
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