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You are here: Home / Kitchens / Modern Kitchen / 5 Future-Kitchen Cabinet Features

5 Future-Kitchen Cabinet Features

May 5, 2010 by Jane F 3 Comments

kitchen cabinet features - scavolini cabinets with graphic designs - Scavolini via AtticmagKitchens are moving in a modern direction with special kitchen cabinet features.

Like every style cycle, kitchen cabinet features that have been popular for few years will start to look dated. That’s because a new generation with different design sensibilities begins to change demands on kitchens. I already see the refrigerator-stove-dishwasher equation slowly replaced by a specialized menu of kitchen appliances tailored to space and choice. Think: freezer drawers, speed and steam ovens, breakfast bars, flat-screens and charging stations for small electronics.

While England gave us the all-white kitchen of the past decade, important innovation is coming from Italy. Looking forward, green technologies, energy conservation, and a change in materials used for home building and renovation also will push kitchens in new directions. That means cabinets will change, too. That look is modern, not for every taste and costly. But it offers fascinating features. Here are five.
kitchen cabinet features - fabric pattern kitchen cabinets by Scavolini via Atticmag1. Fabric-Pattern Cabinets – Quirky? Perhaps. But when you think about the bright colors and patterns being used for upholstery, carpets, wall art and tile, it doesn’t seem unreasonable to make kitchen cabinets as decorative as furniture. Why?  Because materials used to make them will continue to shift away from non-sustainable woods and it’s logical to coordinate color and pattern styles when furnished living areas and kitchen are ever more combined.

Scavolini’s Crystal cabinet line [photos top and above] feature aluminum frames and tempered glass doors. Two variations on screen-printed glass designs by Karim Rashid take a furniture approach to cabinets with 1960s Pop Art colors. The lilac counter in the top photo is laminate. kitchen cabinet features - scavolini glass-door cabinets - scavolini via Atticmag

2. Glass Replacing Wood – Scavolini’s Glam kitchen combines dark-stained oak and glass to take transparency to the max without sacrificing warmth. But here, the idea of lightening things up with  glass-front cabinet upper doors has been expanded to doors and walls.

kitchen cabinet features - valcucine glass lighted cabinets - AtticmagValcucine’s Invitrium cabinets are made of aluminum and matte, tempered glass – even the countertops. When I photographed these cabinets in the model apartment at the Architectral Digest Home Design show, I had no idea that they were all glass — even interior partitions and inside drawers. kitchen cabinet features - interior LED lighted valcucine glass cabinets - AtticmagImagine my surprise when I opened the drawer. And see that blue line over on the left and in the center below? That’s the interior, LED illumination system. Because there are glass partitions between cabinets, it’s possible to light them from within.

kitchen cabinet features - snaidero giaconda side-by-side sink and range under a common hood - Snaidero via Atticmag3. Side-by-Side Cooktop and Sink – In Europe, kitchen space is often restricted so layouts tend to be compressed. Still, you have to admit that pairing a sink and cooktop under a single exhaust hood in this Snadiero Giaconda kitchen (in feather gray matte lacquer) makes cleaning, cooking and time-saving sense – particularly with a secondary sink just across the aisle. kitchen cabinet features - curved snaidero pod peninsula - Snaidero via Atticmag

4. Pod Peninsulas – A single-user kitchen could not be more efficiently designed than Snaidero’s Skyline Lab (emphasis on the lab) with a cantilevered work top that’s a cross between a counter and a shelf. The garbage bin and utility cart on casters offer maximum flexibility to the cook. kitchen cabinet features - snaidero ola specialized storage drawers - Snaidero via Atticmag

5. More Specialized Storage – High-end cabinet lines have long offered specialty drawers like pot storage drawers (in Snaidero’s Ola line, above) and trash bins (from Valcucine, below).
kitchen cabinet features - Valcucine specialized drawer with open trash and covered bins - AtticmagWhile many cooks see these as inflexible for someone who has a lot of kitchen equipment, in the future we may come to appreciate having fewer utensils and a more highly organized storage system to speed up preparation and cleaning cycles.  After all, form follows function.

(Source: Scavolini, Snaidero)

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  1. Linda says

    December 3, 2010 at 10:10 am

    And in a kitchen this large, why would you put the sink into the precious space to the right of the range? Oh, to take advantage of the range hood you say. How’s that again?

    And the ladles and such are suspended over the sink while the towels are over the range. Another example of a show kitchen not really meant for cooking. I fear for the future of mankind.

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  2. Allison says

    December 3, 2010 at 11:21 am

    Linda, thanks for bringing this kitchen to my attention. I think it would function well as a cook’s kitchen. Having a second sink on the range wall seems more practical, and as stated in the article “pairing a sink and cooktop under a single exhaust hood …. makes cleaning, cooking and time-saving sense.”

    As for the ladles and towels, all can be swapped and then they’ll make perfect sense.

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    April 7, 2015 at 5:03 pm

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