Must Italia Kitchen Designs
3 August 2009
“Rain”
One of the problems with some of those ultra modern, very slick, neatly organized European kitchens designs that I have such a penchant for is that they are often rather stark, to such an extent that it almost seems like they have no soul. Although, quite frankly, that is not the problem for me that it is for others because for me the ultimate design is something that enables one to get rid of that blessed clutter! And neatness being next to Godliness… well, that’s a soul that works for me! But even so, it is fair to say that people are going to want their kitchens to do something more than just sit there, even if they are the ultimate in providing the customer with places to put everything.
The other aspect of this, and one of the principal reasons I so often feature European kitchens, is that not all of us, as I have often pointed out, have the space for one of those glorious “let’s put this in a magazine layout” type of kitchens, mostly, I think, because of space and budget considerations. They cost a small fortune. OK, it’s a large fortune! And even if you have that fortune, you can’t do it unless you have the space. So, what do the rest of us do? Especially, what do you do when you’re one of those who must struggle with the increasingly ubiquitous kitchen/dining room/family room layout?
Well, man, let me introduce to you Unyca kitchen designs, which is a concept from Must Italia that takes kitchens in a different direction altogether. What we have here, really, is a wonderfully elegant design that is both glamorous and functional, elements they achieve without sacrificing any of the practicality any kitchen simply must have. The 
wall-mounted cabinets do their most essential job of storage in a way that does not impinge upon the room’s space, a design that is elemental in its simplicity. But this kitchen also has an element of luxury with the gold or silver legs under the kitchen units, an element that is carried forward in the other furniture available from Must Italia.
It’s the sort of kitchen a body wants to keep clean, but more than that, it’s the kind of kitchen that immediately makes itself at home in the room in which it resides. What most distresses me about American kitchens is the fact that they’re really just boxes with a choice of doors and drawer fronts. Seen one, seen ‘em all, pretty much. But that’s like pantyhose, right? One size does NOT fit all!
To return to Must Italia, what they’ve done is develop a wonderful kitchen concept and then provide several different configurations of it. If you want it with a long counter/display cabinet, they have it. If you want it to simply slip into one end of the room, that can be handled as well. And if you want it with a dining room table and chairs that mates with the kitchen design, they have that. And suddenly, the one-room-with-everything-in-it assumes such an elegance and rightness about it that it’s hard to think of it being any other way. Because when it’s right, it’s right. Right as rain.
Joseph
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