Tivali Kitchen from Dada
by Lloyd Alter, Toronto 
on 01.10.07
I may well start calling myself a Dadaist if they keep turning out things like this. We show designs for small spaces on TreeHugger because they show how we might live very well with less; this kitchen design works as a room divider, and has doors that make it completely disappear. The website showing it is in Italian, but design site Trendir says "Designed by Dante Bonuccelli the Tivali features dark wooden doors that smoothly glide away and neatly disappear into storage slots. Steel fronts reflect the bright blue light from the illuminated glass shelves, broadening the mono-block kitchen space. Suddenly the kitchen basin, oven and range seem like a spacious workspace where everything is in reach. By adding the optional fridge column the Tivali incorporates every cooking need from start to finish."
Perfect for multifunctional spaces, the Tivali enclosed kitchen design hides the kitchen clutter making culinary delights seem magically simple. A new addition to Dada kitchens the compact Tivali brings modern luxurious innovations to even small kitchen spaces. ::Trendir also ::MocoLoco
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Great design, but what is the price?
I'd just like to say yuck. All of my best memories that are inside happened in a kitchen. A kitchen is a social hub in a well designed house, where human warmth is shared like food. A living space without a habitable kitchen is just a hotel room to me, not a place to live at all.
And am I the only one who doesn't think the kitchen in this article is really "green?"
I think designs like this will be useful as overpopulation forces drastic changes to the way we live...learning to live in smaller spaces is one way we will deal with it
Nothing comfortable about my kitchen experiences. Wish I had a life more like Alex's.
As a nurse, this kitchen reminds me of a sterile clinical environment, one in which we might do a Pap smear. I does not remind me of a warm place smelling of fresh baked goods where friends and family can gather.
I'm building a 600 sq ft house and I'm interested in experimenting with micro-houses, so this sort of thing is right up my alley. Small is beautiful.
And it's not sterile ... it's modern.
While I hear, understand, and more or less agree with Alex's comment, I also understand that not all lifestyles are alike. For many urbanites, who dine out regularly, this might be quite suitable to their needs and many loft or small apartments. Even if it does not fit for the warmth of a kitchen, one can appreciate its design value... I think it is pretty nice in and of itself.
We are interested in using this kitchen in a new design for a current project. Does anyone know the actual dimensions for this unit? We are space planning and want to allow adequate space.
am interested in possible purchase....does anyone know who the contact is ??
Hi,
The web side is www.dadaweb.it they have two different sizes. The pictures shows the small one, the bigger one is 3.5m long. The prices goes from 15.000€ to 25.000€ without apprels. I'm preparing the building of 20 winter flats chalet in a french ski station and this kitchen will be the perfect way to gain place and have a clean kitchen at all the time.
If you want to see this kitchen, you'll have to go to italy in Torino or Milano... Dada is in Milano, they have a lot of retailers in Italy not much in others country but with this design, it will change, for sure...
Hope it will help.
Nicolas
The very poor have had kitchens like this for years. What's next an $80k Yugo.