VALCUCINE 2008

Valcucine, wellknown for the combination of aesthetics and ethics in interior design, presents new products at the Milano Design Week from 16-21 April 2008.

One of these news is the ARTEMATICA VITRUM ARTE programme which was elaborated with artists as you can see on these photos.

How can a kitchen accommodate and encourage a sustainable behaviour, in other words bring about a more aware home cuisine?

To reply to this question with concrete ideas, scenarios and suggestions Valcucine has started collaborating with the Design and Innovation for Sustainability group of the INDACO department of the Polytechnic of Milan: the aim of this collaboration is the research and design of sustainable life scenarios in the kitchen and to create finally a fully-recyclable kitchen.

"A quality idea that is attentive to both environmental and social sustainability cannot merely regard the product but must also be reflected in the life-styles of those who use it, in daily practice; and this is exactly the definition of contemporary cuisine, aware and critical towards nutritional models that are no longer sustainable. It is necessary to radically renew our way of viewing food purchases, production, preparation, conservation and consumption. In other words, it is necessary to define, to acquire a new kitchen life-style made of choices, skills and pleasures. And the kitchen must be a protagonist and a tool of this transformation by offering the possibility of change to those experiencing it."

Born out of Valcucine's revolutionary idea to reduce volumes for reaching the boundary of dematerialisation for clean, tidy and minimalist environments: the Riciclantica door (the first 2 mm thick glass door ever to be produced, selected by the ADI - Industrial Design Association - Index 2007) and the honeycombed aluminium bookcase (8 mm thick)

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Heads of science department: Ezio Manzini and Anna Meroni
Research co-ordinator: Giordana Ferri
Researchers: Daria Cantù, Caterina Lana
Consultants for specific areas: Francesca Mostardini, Pietro Curti