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Let's get cooking: 5 furniture designs for the agile kitchen

BOOKMARK ARTICLE

Kitchens are often the most dynamic places within one's homes, making the spaces prime candidates for modular design. By providing more opportunities for customization and spatial optimization to boosting cost-effectiveness, durability and use potential, agile kitchen furniture can add new flavour to the heart of our abodes. Discover top designs below.

SATELLITE

70Materia

Surface specialist 70Materia and designer Enricomaria Todaro reimagine the kitchen with a modular system that adapts to various domestic needs. Made in Italy and incorporating the brand’s unique blend of water, cement, aggregates, sand, stone fragments and recycled materials, Satellite offers users the freedom to (re)arrange their food preparation area according to their preferences.

Photo: Maria Ritsch

POSSI

Tanita Klein and Lukas Kauer

A modular furnishing system for kitchen spaces, Possi was developed with reassembly and growth in mind. Designers Tanita Klein and Lukas Kauer utilized simple, solid joints to ensure seamless build-up, deconstruction and rebuilding of the playful, highly functional cabinets and shelves, which are available in a range of colours.

MINIKITCHEN OUTDOOR

Boffi

Boffi has released an outdoor re-edition of Joe Colombo’s monobloc, self-supporting kitchen, which was originally designed in 1963. The half-cubic-m design provides a user with everything needed for flexible cooking, food preparation and conservation. Complete with an electric hob, fridge, sockets and more, the new iteration protects against exterior factors with resistant materials, including marine plywood panel covered in Lasermat.

URBAN

SieMatic

Born from a modular concept, SieMatic’s Urban kitchen offers an asymmetrical plan with a combination of open and closed areas inspiring freedom in design. Sleek finishes and contrasting elements – nodding to the fact that cities are full of exciting contrasts – give the furniture a modern appeal ideal for urban residences.

MANTLE

Signature Kitchen Suite

Patricia Urquiola teamed up with Signature Kitchen Suite to develop Mantle, a free-standing, modular design cabinet for the Italian company’s Undercounter convertible refrigerator, aiming to turn the appliance into a valued, versatile furnishing element. Available in three variants, Mantle makes it possible for a refrigerator to fit seamlessly in untraditional areas, like bedrooms, bathrooms and public spaces. It is finished in exclusive tiles also conceived by Urquiola.

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