http://european-kitchen-design.com European Kitchen Design Blog Wed, 03 Mar 2010 17:01:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [caption id="attachment_752" align="alignnone" width="168" caption="Mandemakers Kitchens"][/caption] With Eurocucina just around the corner, some big kitchen industry news - In an official statement, Thursday, Feb. 25th, 2010, Nobia AB chief, Mr. Preben Bager announced that Nobia (the world’s largest manufacturer and seller of kitchens), sold the Pronorm brand and their 50% shares ... http://european-kitchen-design.com/european-kitchen-companies/nobia-to-sell-off-pronorm Fired by the success of 2009's record edition, despite the extremely challenging global economic climate, the Saloni will be back in April as always, hand in hand with their customary optimism. The Event is Back is, in fact, the new publicity campaign slogan: from 14th to 19th April the tried and ... http://european-kitchen-design.com/italian-kitchen-design/the-countdown-to-eurocucina-has-begun With the Eurocucina, Milan show being just around the corner (April 14th - 19th, 2010), there seem to be an attempt for competition... - The Cologne Show! [caption id="attachment_727" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="The IMM Cologne show"][/caption] Yes, the show that we have already given up on and became just a faded memory, is ... http://european-kitchen-design.com/italian-kitchen-design/the-kitchen-returns-to-cologne-in-2011 [caption id="attachment_722" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Besides to stainless steel and stone, he used rare and precious fossil durmast oak "][/caption] One of my personal all time favorite kitchen designers is Marco Gorini - at the Milan Design Week, in 2009, Gorini has done it again. He introduced the Strato 031 concept – ... http://european-kitchen-design.com/italian-kitchen-design/strato-031-%e2%80%93-marco-gorini-did-it-again While trade shows around the world are facing difficult times getting exhibits to show and attendees to come to the show, the kitchen industry is no difference - the Germany Cologne kitchen show, is pretty much done, the US KBIS last show, in Atlanta, had days with more exhibitors then ... http://european-kitchen-design.com/european-kitchen-design/kuchentrends-%e2%80%93-the-little-kitchen-trade-show-that-could After European-Kitchen-Design.com was the first to report (Sept. 12th, 2009) about the new Philippe Starck kitchen line/brand, that will replace the Miele brand and the reasons behind the change, we now have images of the new collection.   [caption id="attachment_670" align="alignnone" width="266" caption="“STARCK BY Warendorf”"][/caption] The AFG Arbonia-Forster Holding AG together with the Warendorfer Küchen GmbH published a ... http://european-kitchen-design.com/contemporary-kitchens/%e2%80%9cstarck-by-warendorf%e2%80%9d [caption id="attachment_654" align="alignnone" width="260" caption="Philippe Starck will design exclusive kitchens for AFG"][/caption] According to a press release from Arbon (Switzerland), from 16 January 2009. - AFG Arbonia-Forster-Holding AG, Arbon, one of Europe's leading building products suppliers, has concluded an exclusive partnership agreement with French star designer Philippe Starck. In the first ... http://european-kitchen-design.com/european-kitchen-design/philippe-starck-will-design-exclusive-kitchens-for-afg OPENING - design Piero Esposito 2007 - patented Even if it originates from the family of concealed kitchens, Opening is more than an invisible kitchen. It is not simply a built-in kitchen unit that can disappear but a real Kücheraum, a "Kitchen Space", which, whenever its job ends, changes its shape and ... http://european-kitchen-design.com/italian-kitchen-design/opening-the-ultimate-%e2%80%9ckitchen-space%e2%80%9d [caption id="attachment_632" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="Perfectly reclaimed old faucet"][/caption] I love recycling (and I'm not talking about plastic bottles and cans, though that is very important too). I just love it when creative designers, like the team at Cousaert Vanderdockt from Belgium, find old "junk" and turn it into art, furniture and even ... http://european-kitchen-design.com/european-kitchen-design/something-old-something-new-and-something-recycled   You Never Know What You're Gonna Get!" – I love surfing the web and finding some really cool sites, on the other side of the world. Discovering companies and products that I would have never found any other way. [caption id="attachment_610" align="alignnone" width="300" caption="linear, light kitchen, lacquered, wood & glass ... http://european-kitchen-design.com/contemporary-kitchens/the-web-is-like-a-box-of-chocolate%e2%80%a6