Born and raised in France, worked in England, currently living in Vienna, the capital of Austria... before getting a hand on an Atomic badged machine, was interested about streamline design, collecting works of Arthur Radebaugh, Luigi Colani, aluminum or bakelite lamps of the 1940s. He is also a keen pond yachtman, collecting vintage wooden Bowman yachts of the 1950s and insolently playing with them too! After some intensive research, Mikael Janvier found out that there was more to be discovered than the scarce amount of misinformation available on the web... a trip that led him to meet the daughter of the austrian manufacturer, the 2 sons of the hungarian manufacturer... and the son of Mr. Robbiati, who was involved in the making and improving of the coffee machines patented by his father.