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A Latitude of Creativity
October 31, 2023
A simple design element can create a perceptible difference if it is created with the user’s joy in mind.
Historical elements are taking on ever-growing importance in urban environments. A textbook example of this trend is the newly interpreted freestanding sideboard, designed for the kitchen by German company Siematic, a family-owned company that is almost a century old. The striking design of this sideboard with its sloped side panels and distinctive silhouette can be installed with kitchen elements such as cooktops and sinks. It can also be impeccably rounded out by matched or coordinated cabinet ensembles, in which an oven, dishwasher and/or refrigerator can be installed.
The most innovative new kitchen designs today are taking advantage of the latest in cutting-edge technology. Photo Courtesy: Siematic
Kitchen as an object of joy
A kitchen is a place where personal taste can be celebrated to the heart's content, and not just in culinary terms. For planning, design, and furnishing, it also provides great latitude for creativity. For more and more people all over the world, the kitchen is the most important and most frequently used room today. Nobody knows what the kitchen of the future will look like but with each new technological advancement, the realms of possibility are extended ever further.
Today’s modern kitchen is embedded within the smart house and presupposes a digital lifestyle. However, in order to get it right, to create spaces and technologies that people will want to use, not just admire from a distance, there is a need to disarticulate the domestic from the digital. One way to do this involves complicating the understanding of the kitchen, moving beyond seeing it as a collection of wires, appliances and internet points, to thinking about it as a space in which people really live.
Blending technology with design sensibility is the right crucible for ideas for a perfect kitchen. Photo Courtesy: Siematic
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Ulrich W. Siekmann, Managing Director and CEO of Siematic Möbelwerke, says it is important to reinterpret the kitchen and develop solutions that give just as much importance to emotions as functions. The range pictured here is geared to make life easier and enrich what the customer desires most: something that brings delight - every day.
"Your Lifestyle – Your Kitchen" - under this motto, international kitchen specialists, interior designers, and journalists as part of this year's Milan Furniture Fair got to see a new showroom of the company on Viale Monte Santo in the city where the new designs were on display.
Based on a new design principle, three new kitchen style collections: Pure, Urban and Classic were introduced by the company. Siematic is a premium brand with a long history, and its kitchens have gained an international reputation for their design, elegance and high level of functionality. Urban has a cosmopolitan feel, combining various styles; Pure is all about modern style, and Classic reflects the world of classic design. The Urban style collection was launched earlier this year in a presentation featuring the new freestanding cabinet called Siematic 29. These new kitchen design examples, by combining vertical and horizontal structures, open and closed elements, and light and dark materials, create an appealing range of design possibilities.
Nowhere is furniture subject to more stress than in the kitchen. It is for this reason that materials of select quality and perfect workmanship should be used. Photo Courtesy: Siematic
A distinctive aesthetic
Whether in Berlin, New York, Beijing or Mumbai, cities are all about contrasts and are constantly in motion. The creativity of urban dwellers changes the world around them, via elements such as street art, pop-up shops and urban gardening. Cities encompass the realm of possibilities in which each and every individual can find a place. These concepts offer unconventional contrasts between carefully selected objects; standalone units; and intuitive combinations of thematic opposites. This in turn creates a distinctive aesthetic – one that reflects the experiences, values and contradictions of city dwellers.
Colour and style
Colour is one of the most important design elements in design because it spontaneously creates moods and feelings. The choice of colours determines whether a room is perceived as inviting, elegant, generous, cool or cosy. Achieving a nuanced combination of the different materials and door panels used in a kitchen and creating the desired harmony requires not only a highly sensitive use of colours but also a well-conceived concept.
Today’s modern kitchen is embedded within the smart house and presupposes a digital lifestyle. Photo Courtesy: Siematic
Contrasts of elements
Unconventional contrasts between carefully selected objects; standalone units; and intuitive combinations of thematic opposites are the hallmarks of the collection featured here. The unconventional style creates a range of design possibilities by combining vertical and horizontal structures, open and closed elements, and light and dark materials. The forms, colours, materials and sizes of the various elements are flexible, and "solitaire" planning of freestanding objects plays a design role that is just as distinct as the mixture of open and closed living spaces and elements. Accessories like a herb garden lend "green" accents and bring nature into a city apartment. The signature piece of the ‘Urban’ style collection is the Siematic 29: the re-interpretation of the classical sideboard, which has already won many international design awards for its both functional and aesthetic qualities.
Unconventional contrasts between selected objects; standalone units; and intuitive combinations of thematic opposites. Individually configurable cabinet combinations are the ideal practical complement. The cabinets of various widths, with closed doors or open shelves, allow for the installation of ovens, dishwashers and refrigerators.
Colour is one of the most important design elements in design because it spontaneously creates moods and feelings. Photo Courtesy: Siematic
The niches lend themselves to a broad range of designs in terms of colours and materials and can be customised to accommodate sinks, cooktops and other kitchen elements. Slanted and rounded side panels create a distinctive silhouette with legs that lend the cabinet the lightness and character of individual pieces of furniture.
Nowhere is furniture subject to more stress than in the kitchen. It is for this reason that materials of select quality and perfect workmanship should be used. The Siematic lacquer programs radiate elegance without offering any point of vulnerability to the high stresses of the kitchen. Also, as a surface material, wood still continues to enjoy great popularity, because it exudes warmth and naturalness like no other material. Whether as a massive moulded front panel or veneer, whether smooth or with added profiles. As seen in the kitchens here, a good combination is used to create soothing and interesting effects.
The forms, colours, materials and sizes of the various elements are flexible, and "solitaire" planning of freestanding objects plays a design role that is just as distinct as the mixture of open and closed living spaces and elements. Photo Courtesy: Siematic
The most innovative new kitchen designs today are taking advantage of the latest in cutting-edge technology, while still keeping in mind concepts that are important to modern families, like eco-friendly appliances, open concept living, multi-functional options and creative design elements. The really socially integrated kitchen will contain innovative ways of blending social practices and technology.
Blending technology with design sensibility is the right crucible for ideas for a perfect kitchen. To create a richly contrasting ensemble that is also notable for its harmony.
The intuitive juxtaposition of carefully selected, seemingly contrasting objects reflects the desires of a mobile, social generation: "Do it yourself – do it together."
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