Kitchen Design Academy-News Gazette # 72

Every kitchen design shoud follow some important principles of design:

1. BALANCE – Balance in design is similar to balance in physics. A large shape close to the center can be balanced by a small shape close to the edge. Balance provides stability and structure to a design. It’s the weight distributed in the design by the placement of your elements.
2. PROXIMITY – Proximity creates relationship between elements. It provides a focal point. Proximity doesn’t mean that elements have to be placed together, it means they should be visually connected in someway.
3. ALIGNMENT – Allows us to create order and organisation. Aligning elements allows them to create a visual connection with each other.
4. REPETITION – Repetition strengthens a design by tying together individual elements. It helps to create association and consistency. Repetition can create rhythm (a feeling of organized movement).
5. CONTRAST – Contrast is the juxtaposition of opposing elements (opposite colours on the colour wheel, or value light / dark, or direction – horizontal / vertical). Contrast allows us to emphasize or highlight key elements in your design.
6. SPACE – Space in art refers to the distance or area between, around, above, below, or within elements. Both positive and negative space are important factors to be considered in every design.                             Source http://www.j6design.com.au/6-principles-of-design/

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SEBASTIAN DESCH, Austria

A LOVE FOR WOOD...

... and a passion for design that is sensual, appropriate for the material and timeless is tangible in all of Sebastian Desch‘s designs. Fine traditional handcrafted details are never just for show in these designs however, and are instead just one stylish aspect of the sleek, elegant forms that have already won several internationally renowned design awards. One such award was the iF product design award 2013 forcubus Home Entertainment – a range specially developed using the specifications of current entertainment media. In addition to the technologically advanced details, the natural wood unit also provides the perfect setting to play music from top-end loudspeaker systems – and becomes an acoustic body itself as a result. A cubistic design combined with a sensual material mix of natural wood and coloured glass - the TEAM 7 living range cubus pure shows absolute focus on pure volume defined by clean surfaces and edges. This gives the furniture a contemporary clear modernity with a delicate and weightless appearance. With the elegant living range cubus pure Desch won numerous design awards, most recently the interior innovation award 2014 - Winner.

Born in 1974 in Ried / Innkreis, Austria, it was after completing his high school studies that he decided to take his flair for craft and creative streak to the next level, completing five years‘ training in interior and furniture design at the prestigious HTBLA (federal higher technical institute) Hallstatt. His carpentry training also enabled him to‚perfect‘ his feel for shapes and materials and the processing of these. After working as a project manager and planner in an architect‘s office, he joined TEAM 7 where his first responsibility was the planning and styling of dealer studios and regional trade fairs. Then in 2008 he was given overall responsibility for TEAM 7‘s underlying architectural brand image at the main trade fairs in Cologne, Vienna and Milan, in addition to his work as a designer.

As Head of Interior Design Desch is - apart from his role as a designer - responsible for Creative Direction at international fairs and photo shoots. It is his passion for harmonious proportions and his keen eye for detail which ensure that TEAM 7, as a pioneer of ecologically produced designer furniture made from natural wood.

VAO KITCHEN

Where the love of wood becomes tangible.
Elegant natural wood plays the main part in the award-winning vao kitchen. An unobtrusive passepartout "frames" the natural wood fronts like a painting, thus particularly emphasizing the natural beauty of this material.
Horizontal joins act as a convenient handle. On the base units, the handles are operated from above, with the result that

• the sensual natural wood can be "grasped" and
• the vao kitchen is designed without any handles whatsoever.

The drawers of the vao kitchen can additionally be fitted with "Servo Drive" so they open and close at the merest touch.

K7

A designer kitchen with height-adjustable worktop
Worktop, table or bar – the k7 cooking island is everything: the worktop of the k7 cooking island can be infinitely adjusted in height from 74 to 114 cm at the push of a button.

In the lowest position, with retracted fitting and covered sink, the k7 cooking island looks just like a sideboard. This makes the k7 cooking island ideal for open living areas comprising the kitchen, dining and living room. Sit comfortably on bar stools or chairs: the worktop can protrude on the long or short sides.

The k7 cooking island is completely without handles. All drawers, doors and wall unit flaps in this designer kitchen open conveniently at the merest touch and close gently with cushioned self-closure.

http://www.team7.at/en/kitchen/k7

 

A BRAND NEW

A container of emotions, a landmark dedicated to a modern audience, caring, open-minded. CREO Kitchens with you creates endless alchemy, you also like us you love originality, sophistication, customization, non conformism, young in age or just know the taste and choose products that they know to realize your expectations, united by the common rouge of the right relationship between quality and price.

NEW TREND

Everyone can find CREO Kitchens in the formula of his style, expressing it in a very personal mix of original and exclusive compositions. CREO Kitchens brings together different codes according to a enjoyable game of equal and opposite, contemporary and traditional, colorful and neutral, cold and hot, shiny and matte, to achieve trend absolutely unique and personalized.

QUALITY 'TOTAL AND CONVENIENCE

To keep up in time the love for your new kitchen CREO Kitchens, our technicians have tested and evaluated carefully for you each and every construction detail, in order to verify the reliability, safety, ergonomics and durability.
In CREO Kitchens we support the culture of doing putting passionately to our know-how to develop custom design solutions with flexibility and creativity to interpret your space, with certain results and shared. For us to be competitive CREO Kitchens is not only able to give ideas and inspiration to make you wish for our products, we want to achieve your dreams, and this is why we have focused much of our forces on the programmatic right relationship between quality and price of our products. 
By sharing our experiences and those of the designers and our suppliers, we were able to build a supply chain in which finuture using materials and high quality, we can produce models from top quality content, aesthetic and functional, competitive in price.

Kyra

Lightness and harmony

Kyra is a Kitchen System that allows you to customize your kitchen like a tailored suit . Whatever your lifestyle, your tastes, your expectations and the type of environment where you go to enter your kitchen, you will always find the model Kyra the solution best suited to your needs, thanks to an incredible assortment of finishes, handles and doors. With the Kitchen System Kyra can create unique experiences compositional styles by simply getting involved with handle Kyra , Kyra Neck or the unmistakable Kyra Vintage . The collection of handles , designed to be expertly matched to the doors of Kyra, characterize an original and creative compositions in a perfect balance of elegance and character. If you seek a kitchen essential and strong lines, Kyra Neck with system groove is personalization more just for you: class and design for a kitchen of high aesthetic and quality, accessible to all thanks to Creo and its research capabilities and precision. With Kyra Vintage , then, you can be inspired by the industrial style and live in your home environment: a customization timeless, with shapes, materials and colors that are inspired by the aesthetics post industrial and align with the current design trends to produce a cool and stylish vintage effect. 
It's the details that make the difference: choose the right ones for you with the System Kitchen Kyra. 

Alma contemporary

door melamine and lacquered

The alternation of finishes that reproduce the warmth of wood, the elegance of the lacquered in matt or gloss, combined with the broad compositional freedom, allow to create compositions with Alma in the current design, rich in detail and extremely functional.
The door in melamine edges with color abs, current finishes, allows compositions also free to wander in the living area, with results of great aesthetic and practical.

Britt

make your dreams

door in polymeric wood finish, gloss and matt

The model Britt creates domestic spaces linear, essential and original, with endless possibilities for customization. Britt becomes the protagonist of your daily life.
The special rounding on the four sides of the leaf and the current of the polymer finishes are offered in gloss and matt and refined proposals wood, Britt creates environments convivial, warm and comfortable without sacrificing functionality.

Elin

luxury kitchen

door in polymeric

Strongly characterized by the traditional lines, Elin succeeds, thanks to its great versality 'composition, to create a style so original to be present. Elin is a kitchen model of noble and refined, thanks to touches of precious finishes and aesthetic qualities. The timeless elegance makes Elin cuisine trend for its distinctive international spirit that can create space kitchen and living strong customization, without reducing the functionality and practicality typical of contemporary life.

Vivian

elegance and charm

door in solid brushed fir

Tract from simple and chic model Vivian was born by the attention to detail in the design and details, which can melt in this model past and present to create aesthetic solutions and practices of great prestige and sophistication. The door from the proportioned frame profile is proposed in exclusive finishes and brushed and pickled in elegant white, honey and dove.

http://www.creokitchens.it/dett_prodotto.asp?id=21#.VR8iRfmUdeQ

Designers Pick the Hottest New Products from the 2015 AD Home Design Show

AD editor  asked some of the world’s top designers to choose the best new items from this year AD show.

Here are their choices:

1. MARY DOUGLAS DRYSDALE, DRYSDALE INC.

“Bauformat Kitchens is a German brand with a long history in manufacturing but is newer to the U.S. market. I was impressed by the sleek lines of the cabinetry, depth of finish selection, and particularly by their opening approach to the cabinetry. Most lower cabinets open with pressure, not pulls. Since there are few pulls, the look is clean and minimal.”

2. JAMIE DRAKE, DRAKE DESIGN ASSOCIATES

“The Cubist, architectural vases of Piet Hein Eek, shown at the Future Perfect, are superbly sculptural. Harking back to early-20th-century Austrian designs, the crisp silhouettes are elegant, and the bold scale makes a big statement.”

3. THOMAS HAMEL, THOMAS HAMEL & ASSOCIATES

“The hanging light from David D’Imperio lighting has a sculptural, almost origami form. The lightness of material is a nice departure from heavier forms of metal lighting, and the pierced and shaped metal panels create a translucent quality. They are the perfect illumination for above bars or islands.”

4.JOHN BARMAN, JOHN BARMAN INC.

“The ceramic occasional tables by RS Ceramics could be very effective in the right setting.”

5. MATTHEW PATRICK SMYTH, MATTHEW PATRICK SMYTH INC.

“I am a fan of Voutsa founder George Venson’s work because he is not motivated by trends or influenced by what else is happening in the industry. He moves on what inspires him at the moment. He is always evolving and someone to keep an eye on! His work is beautifully crafted yet has a subtle sense of humor. I especially like the Ballets Russes and Grecian Urn wallpaper collection.”

6. BRIAN MCCARTHY, BRIAN J. MCCARTHY, INC.

“Like Sister Parish, I love a patchwork and so am easily drawn to Piet Hein Eek’s table that was shown at the Future Perfect.”

7. BRIAN GRAYBILL, GRAYBILL DDB

“I’m constantly looking for art for second homes that is reasonably priced. These images at Barloga Studios are created on a laser printer but have a pen-and-ink quality to them.”

8. STEPHANIE GOTO, STEPHANIE GOTO DESIGN GROUP

“My inner race-car driver loves the Ligne Roset Parachute. I am attracted to the use of lines to express structure and imply lightness and surface. This to me is the new modern.”

9. ELLIE CULLMAN, CULLMAN & KRAVIS

“Ping-Pong tables are usually an eyesore and are often relegated to the basement in most projects. This dynamite table—made of glass with metal components—would be a showstopper in any modern room. But because the table is translucent, it does not dominate. Chameleon-like, this table can be used in traditional settings as well.”

10. BRAD FORD, BRAD FORD ID

“I’ve followed Asher Israelow’s work for some time and was really excited to see his new sling chair. It’s a fresh take on a classic design, and the details are quite handsome.”

11. STEVEN GAMBREL, S. R. GAMBREL INC.

“James Lowther of the Lacquer Company does a line for us, but I liked the line he did for Flair in dark lacquer and brass. They had wide banded edges in brass with bolt details. There were side tables that cleverly fit within the console, which was graphic and alluring.”

12. THOM FILICIA, THOM FILICIA INC.

“I’m a big fan of the hand-painted indigo rug from Avo. I love the juxtaposition between that natural cowhide, with its always unique organic shape, and the graphic hand-painted pattern. It creates a beautiful balance that I find both modern and timeless, creating an artful and earthy sophistication.”

13. TOM KLIGERMAN, IKE KLIGERMAN BARKLEY ARCHITECTS

“Empire Safe supplies custom-size, elegant safes in what appeared to be any color of the rainbow. The interiors are completely customizable in beautiful woods and metals of your choice. I had a vision of a safe plated entirely in brushed nickel, inside and out—an oversize version of the polished metal watches residing within.”

14. DAVID ROCKWELL, ROCKWELL GROUP

“One of my favorite items at this year’s AD Home Design Show was the Bicicleta rug by Nanimarquina featured in the Karkula booth. The rug is made from hand-loomed recycled inner tubes. I love how it can transform a floor into a highly textured surface in a playful, handcrafted way.”

15. BASIL WALTER, BWARCHITECTS

“Our clients increasingly collect a wider range of periods and styles in their artwork and furnishings, which can create real challenges in balancing the decor of a room. I see the Gem cocktail table by Debra Folz Design as just the sort of piece that could bring together a traditional sofa and modern rug, or vice versa, with an elegant lightness.”

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