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Costa Rican Popular Legends Figures ‘chorreador’ (coffee maker)
$180.00
Code: CRFA052
Size: 12” (30 cms) tall
Freddy Acuna of San Carlos, Alajuela Province, in the north of Costa Rica is the creator of these wonderfully whimsical ‘chorreadores’. If anyone has travelled to Costa Rica, they will have invariably drank coffee made in this traditional way. Acuna, studies and reinterprets in his very stylized line of carved and painted wood figures, the cast of Costa Rica’s popular legends that all Ticos know and love (and fear!): La Segua (half horse and half sultry woman), Cadejos (the dark dog that accompanies drunks), el Padre sin Cabeza (the fear factor), La Llorona (Central America’s banshee), etc.
Acuna’s creations have any of these personages holding the base for the cheesecloth bag that filters the ground coffee with the liquid receiving cup placed on the platform underneath. A wonderful piece to remember one’s rich cups of coffee direct from the local plantations of Costa Rica.
Size: 12” (30 cms) tall
Freddy Acuna of San Carlos, Alajuela Province, in the north of Costa Rica is the creator of these wonderfully whimsical ‘chorreadores’. If anyone has travelled to Costa Rica, they will have invariably drank coffee made in this traditional way. Acuna, studies and reinterprets in his very stylized line of carved and painted wood figures, the cast of Costa Rica’s popular legends that all Ticos know and love (and fear!): La Segua (half horse and half sultry woman), Cadejos (the dark dog that accompanies drunks), el Padre sin Cabeza (the fear factor), La Llorona (Central America’s banshee), etc.
Acuna’s creations have any of these personages holding the base for the cheesecloth bag that filters the ground coffee with the liquid receiving cup placed on the platform underneath. A wonderful piece to remember one’s rich cups of coffee direct from the local plantations of Costa Rica.