Not Your Grandma’s Kitchen: 17 Modern Designs for the Discerning Cook

The Cut Transforming Kitchen by Alessandro Isola

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This transforming kitchen packs a lot of function into a small area, with a tabletop that swings out in various directions and storage cubes that double as dining stools. ‘The Cut’ by Alessandro Isola can be reconfigured into several different setups for different needs like cooking, congregating, relaxing and dining.

Siemens Foodlab by Studio Rygalik

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Movable modules on wheels make it easy to reconfigure the Siemens ‘Foodlab’ kitchen by Studio Rygalik however you like, so you can pull the counter up closer to the oven, move the fridge next to the sink or whatever else suits your task. Equipped with Siemens’s Studioline built-in appliances and ovens, the kitchen is housed in pale wood, and the refrigerator and freezer tower is even topped with greenery.

6 Futuristic Kitchen Designs by Ora Ito

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French designer Ora Ito is known for his unusual, sculptural, futuristic kitchen designs, and these five represent a 2016 collaboration with the brand Gorenje. Among these five designs, there’s a fit for even the most ultramodern houses, from the space capsule-like white room-within-a-room to gleaming black appliances paired with stone.

Carrara Marble Kitchen Concept by Jonas Lindvall

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Why stop at a marble countertop if you could have an all-marble kitchen? This concept by designer Jonas Lindvall is made of white-pigmented ash covered in 6mm-thick carrara marble veneer with a solid marble countertop. “Marble has a calm, soothing psychological quality I find very attractive,” says the designer. “It also has a sense of presence and provenance characteristic of natural materials.”