Tag: Kitchens - Page 4
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A Brief History of the Kitchen From Core77
We recently did a very brief history of the fitted kitchen inIs It Time To Rethink the Built-In Kitchen?. For those who want a bit more information, Core77 has produced six parts of a history of the kitchen, starting with the work of Catharine Beecher
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Is It Time To Rethink the Built-In Kitchen?
Tina Roth Eisenberg, the Swiss Miss, shows a field kitchen from Kanz Outdoors and thinks it would come in really handy while she renovates her apartment. But one has to consider whether this kind of kitchen design doesn't
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Organic Chef Anna Getty Explains Her Top 10 Kitchen Essentials
Photo credit: thebittenword.com/Creative Commons Join the eBay Green Team on Facebook and Twitter. Anna Getty is an organic chef, writer, green living expert. As the eponymous author of Anna Getty's Easy Green Organic, she nows how to setup and operate
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A Folding Kitchen Inaugurates the Field of Existential Design
On TreeHugger, we've featured some pretty crazy ways to save space, from showering in the living room to hiding your bed on the ceiling. But what about the kitchen? How to pack the fridge, sink, dishwasher,
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5 Mini Fridge Freezer Combos for Small Kitchens
As with ovens, so with fridges -- manufacturers make smaller models, but seemingly not with the tiny home in mind.
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6 Energy-Efficient Convection Microwave Ovens For Small Kitchens
In the search for the most energy-efficient cooktop (read more here) for his 420-square-foot apartment in New York City, TreeHugger founder Graham Hill faced a somewhat simple choice in terms of efficiency --
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5 Energy-efficient Induction Cooktops For Small Kitchens
The design brief: TreeHugger founder Graham Hill's 420-square-foot apartment in New York may be micro-sized, but his life calls for a great deal of outsized entertaining. So in spite of wanting
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Milan Furniture Fair 2011 - Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant by Martà Guixé
Once again Milan Design Week is here, and like most years, it is the small independent events that grab our attention. Like the Lapin Kulta Solar Kitchen Restaurant, that
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Recycling Gone Right: Amazing Kitchen With Random Salvaged Materials By WhyDesign (Photos)
Asked to come up with a concept space for the BGourmet event in Sao Paulo, Brazilian studio WhyDesign came up with this fabulous kitchen made almost entirely with salvaged materials from flea markets and demolition
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La Cuchina Kitchen by Matteo Thun Gets Waaay Back To Basics
We're all for getting back to basics and cooking like grandma used to do, but Matteo Thun, Maurizio Riva and friends go back a few more generations yet to come up with La Cuchina, shown at IMM Cologne's Living Kitchens.
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IDS11: IKEA Model Kitchen Demonstrates Jevons Paradox
Jevons Paradox would suggest that as energy efficiency increases, then people will respond by using more of it. It is a controversial issue in a world where people are working hard to increase efficiency so that we will use
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Get Back to the Basics of Cooking with Handle Me Cookware
Kitchens these days are filled with more and more gadgets, designed to save time, to make things easier, from chopping to frying to cleaning. It's a trend that Norwegian design studio Angell Wyller Aarseth is fighting
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Floating Kitchen Might Feel At Home In A LifeEdited
Leslie at KBCulture likes the Harmonie from French kitchen manufacturer Arthur Bonnet; so do I. It would do well in a LifeEdited.
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Camp In Your Kitchen With The Pila Kitchenset
When writing LifeEdited: What We Can Learn From Camping Equipment, I asked "Why do camping equipment designers make pots and pans that all stack together and take up the space of only the largest pots, while a regular pot
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Moody Tablecloth, Hand-made in Italy, has Pockets for Organizing Small Spaces
Whether you are looking for the perfect Christmas gift, or the perfect ambiance for your Christmas party, Zo_loft has a tablecloth or table runner to meet the need. What makes a Zo_loft tablecloth so unique? The
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Valencia Design Week 2010: Only 1ºC! Mina Kwag's Design Products Raise Awareness About Climate Change (Photos)
I came across these cute cups at the Designboom Mart at the Valencia Design Week last week. Not at all doomsday products, Mina Kwag's designs are fun and useful, and yet, they let you know that something isn't quite right. The
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Ikea's Cookbook Looks Like...Ikea
Ikea has published a cookbook... Does it contain flatpack food? Do you need an Allen key to make it? Is it out of stock? Is it beautiful?
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Counter Space: How The Modern Kitchen Evolved
Suzanne Labarre of Fast Company's Co.Design writes a wonderful article about the new show opening at the Museum of Modern Art in New York: Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen. The show traces the development of
