The bodum 1308 16 columbia 8 cup cafetiere is a superior quality and high performance coffee maker that comes in a beautiful stainless steel finish it features an insulated double wall construction to keep your coffee hot for up to 2 hours it also features 3 part stainless steel plunger that has a mesh filter allowing for high quality extraction of your coffees aromatic oils and subtle flavours this means that there us none of the flavour loss thats normally associated with paper filters