Coffee is the shortest journey you will take today.

For over forty years we have been building its destination.

Amici is a family business from central Switzerland: small enough that on the phone you reach a person who knows your name; old enough that we know how much patience good coffee demands. Founded in 1979, run today by the second generation, with around fifteen people in Steinhausen and Lucerne.

What drives us is a single moment: the thirty seconds in which an espresso comes into being, and the two minutes in which it takes you somewhere else. Everything we do works towards that moment: the farms we plant, the beans we select, the machines we build, the trees we put in the desert.

We call it: escaping responsibly. Escape responsibly.

Familie Illy im Geschäft in Steinhausen

Our story

Two chapters, one craft: founded in 1979 by Francesco and Annemarie Illy, today an independent house with its own Blend, its own farms and the Reniala R1.

Reforestation

Since 2012 we have been planting trees where they are needed: from the Egyptian desert to Madagascar and Brazil, and on to Rhodes.

Sustainability

We would rather say too little than too much: our own biodynamic farms, trees instead of certificates, and machines built to keep.

Coffee knowledge

Everything we know about coffee: origins, roasting, brewing and more.