It seems at last that the the Bauhaus styled fitted kitchen is being challenged.
For the best part of 80 years, a smart kitchen meant a modular, clean-lined row of cupboards. Behind the smartest ones hid dishwashers, fridges and washing machines camouflaged by a fitted door to look like a cupboard. Even sink tops are routinely hidden beneath work surfaces subjugated to the notion that utilitarian equipment should be used but not seen.
In parts of South America Whirlpool have released this limited edition refrigerator with a 1950 theme to its styling. Read more
Photos: YOXIMOVIC design studio.
Like JLo, this chair makes a virtue of its bottom.
Ever so slightly larger perhaps , than the bottom of an average chair, it flaunts its firm, beautiful, flowing curves to produce something of great depth, set of course, on slim, elegant legs!
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If your “grabbers” no longer grab, then you might consider turning them into a table. That is what Italian firm, Tavomatico, has done! Read more
The Roppongi: Nikken Space Design.
This project won the Interior Design category for this year’s IDA awards. At first glance it looks like a hotel, but is actually a 39 story residential complex in the Roppongi district of Tokyo.
The concept for the public areas was created by Nikken Space Design. It is a play on the juxtaposition of the calm comfort of the building’s interiors, and the lively Roppongi street outside. Read more
If lack of space is your problem, the vertical kitchen designed by Massimo Facchinetti, might be the solution. Read more
