--- title: Ashes of Renato Bialetti Put in Moka Pot Espresso Maker description: Renato Bialetti famous for the design of the Moka pot is buried in replica of the espresso maker. canonical: https://time.com/4230439/coffee-legends-ashes-kept-in-replica-of-espresso-maker/ author: Olivia B. Waxman article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2016-02-19T16:22:14.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-04-13T07:30:16.640Z og:title: Coffee Legend's Ashes Kept in Replica of Espresso Maker og:description: Renato Bialetti is credited for making the Moka Pot famous worldwide og:url: https://time.com/4230439/coffee-legends-ashes-kept-in-replica-of-espresso-maker/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta94d3a9e214649b5/69887e4e0a4a2210929c8744/espresso-maker-ashes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1200 og:image:height: 675 og:image:alt: ESPRESSO-maker-ashes og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Coffee Legend's Ashes Kept in Replica of Espresso Maker twitter:description: Renato Bialetti is credited for making the Moka Pot famous worldwide twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta94d3a9e214649b5/69887e4e0a4a2210929c8744/espresso-maker-ashes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Coffee Legend's Ashes Kept in Replica of Espresso Maker  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 19, 2016 4:22 PM UTC  Danilo Donadio—AP  by [Olivia B. Waxman](https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/)  ## Olivia B. Waxman Staff Writer Feb 19, 2016 4:22 PM UTC The ashes of Italian businessman Renato Bialetti, who died last week at 93 in Switzerland, were placed in a replica of the Moka pot espresso maker that his father Alfonso invented in 1933, per his wishes, the Associated Press [reports](http://www.apimages.com/metadata/Index/Italy-Bialetti-Moka-Funeral/4344bcee33224f0fb163c9d364d28281/6/0). This Feb. 16 photo shows a scene from the burial service at the church of Casale Corte Cerro in the northern Italian village of Montebuglio where he was born. Bialetti is credited with successfully marketing the brand worldwide with the image of the mustachioed man that appears on the pots. _La Stampa_ posted a [video version](https://www.lastampa.it/2016/02/16/edizioni/verbania/cronaca/le-ceneri-di-renato-bialetti-nella-sua-moka-coi-baffi-qw2ZXnd0hrqoW1HHDGx3oM/pagina.html) of the mass. Ashes of Renato Bialetti Put in Moka Pot Espresso Maker ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4230439/coffee-legends-ashes-kept-in-replica-of-espresso-maker/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4230439/coffee-legends-ashes-kept-in-replica-of-espresso-maker/"},"headline":"Coffee Legend's Ashes Kept in Replica of Espresso Maker","datePublished":"2016-02-19T16:22:14.000Z","dateModified":"2026-04-13T07:30:16.640Z","description":"Renato Bialetti is credited for making the Moka Pot famous worldwide","url":"https://time.com/4230439/coffee-legends-ashes-kept-in-replica-of-espresso-maker/","keywords":["Newsfeed","society"],"thumbnailUrl":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta94d3a9e214649b5/69887e4e0a4a2210929c8744/espresso-maker-ashes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","author":[{"@type":"Person","name":"Olivia B. Waxman","jobTitle":"Staff Writer","url":"https://time.com/author/olivia-b-waxman/"}],"articleSection":"","image":[{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blta94d3a9e214649b5/69887e4e0a4a2210929c8744/espresso-maker-ashes.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=1200:675&height=675","width":1200,"height":675,"headline":"ESPRESSO-maker-ashes","caption":"","creditText":"Danilo Donadio—AP","representativeOfPage":true}],"publisher":{"@type":"Organization","name":"Time","url":"https://time.com/","logo":{"@type":"ImageObject","url":"https://time.com/images/logo.png","width":528,"height":156},"foundingDate":"March 3, 1923","sameAs":["https://www.facebook.com/time","https://www.instagram.com/time/?hl=en","https://twitter.com/time","https://www.pinterest.com/timemagazine"]}},{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"BreadcrumbList","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"item":{"@id":"/tag/time-section-newsfeed/","name":"Newsfeed"}},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"item":{"@id":"https://time.com/4230439/coffee-legends-ashes-kept-in-replica-of-espresso-maker/","name":"Coffee Legend's Ashes Kept in Replica of Espresso Maker"}}]}] ```