Chemex Coffee Maker

The Chemex was designed in 1939 by Dr. Peter J. Schlumbohm, a German chemist and coffee lover. He put all his experience of filtering techniques and extraction processes into the project and the extraordinary design even earned him a permanent place in the exhibition at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.

Even back then, Peter Schlumbohm was keen to make people's everyday lives easier. However, he initially studied chemistry and had no real connection to coffee, other than the fact that he himself liked to drink filter coffee. Thanks to his years of work as a chemist, Schlumbohm was familiar with extraction methods. And it was precisely this experience that he then combined with coffee preparation. To be more precise, he took the Erlenmeyer flask as a model and developed the Chemex.

The Chemex is a preparation method that has a decades-long tradition. The Chemex was actually invented in the USA in 1941. However, the Chemex does not originate directly from the USA. It was invented by the German scientist Dr. Peter Schlumbohm in New York. Even then, the Chemex coffee maker achieved cult status. However, the preparation method did not really gain momentum until 2002.