Personalised cooking station
of the underestimated value of the carpenter's kitchen.
"Your carpenter makes it personal!" or "Your kitchen made to measure!" - how often have such claims from glossy brochures or radio commercials called out to us, hoping they would be the right thing for us. What has stuck with us, apart from the promised accuracy of fit, is above all an image and aesthetics that fit better into the Musikantenstadel than into our image of contemporary living.
But carpenters can do more than solid wood, stained oak and country house looks - they are passionate craftsmen, perfect implementers and people with a great feel for materials, surfaces and technology. Like ourselves, they have a soft spot for precise workmanship, exact assembly, ease of movement and nifty mechanisms that take an almost scientific approach to the folding, rolling, sliding and closing of doors, drawers and pull-outs. Finally, there is also a "Maserati version" among the fittings, hinges and pull-ins that makes you think of James Bond.
The kitchen in particular is a place where the bundled carpentry know-how can unfold perfectly. Because kitchens are the furniture where appearance and function interact most. Nobody wants an ultra-chic space object that has to declare design bankruptcy at the first breakfast egg. But who says that function and practicality can't go hand in hand with coolness?
At first glance, our kitchens appear quite unspectacular. They usually fit naturally into the interior design of the room - as massive cubes that elegantly conceal function and knick-knacks; with surfaces and colour shades that complete the overall look; as perfectly equipped cooking stations that make every foodie cheer; and as a place that naturally becomes the centre of family life. Much ado about nothing has never been our motto.