Welcome to ArtForm!

This site is inspired by a love story.

As a young couple, my husband and I liked to spend our weekends strolling through little neighborhood shops around San Francisco. One day we came across an espresso machine. At the time, neither of us liked to drink coffee, but we still wanted it just the same. The price was $500. It seemed like a lot for something that would never be used for it's intended purpose. We walked away thinking it was an opulent and unwise decision.

Afterwards, neither of us could stop thinking about that machine. It was more than an...