Diotti Italian Kitchen Designs
5 August 2009
“With a Song in My Heart”
I have been exploring this subject of kitchen designs for some time now, and I’m telling you, it’s been an education. But the one thing that most surprises—or dismays—me is that utter lack of innovation that goes on in so many circles for kitchen designs, especially those coming from kitchen designers. I don’t want to rain on anyone’s parade here, but I just think that when someone is paid a rather large sum to design a kitchen that the resulting design should be pretty spectacular. In this country, though, that is rarely the case. In part, I suppose, it’s the nature of the beast. A kitchen is a highly functional room. But in larger part, well, maybe it’s us.
In the end I suppose lots and lots of kitchens—including my own, much deferred project—are going to end up being not much more than a line of boxes with a choice of doors and drawer fronts, but it just seems that there ought to be a way to do something more than that with the concept. And that, in sum, is why I am again oohing and aahing over an European kitchen design, namely, Diotti’s Quadra Kitchen Design.
The Quadra is just one of an astonishing number of kitchen designs from Diotti (another in a long line of truly innovative Italian design companies), but with this design, as with all of their designs, really, there is a design that is both practical and innovative. And that’s what we all want, right? My partner and I have had a long running discussion on the utility of various Blind Corner Solutions for Base Cabinets. I continue to assert that none of the hardware sold for that purpose really is as effective as simply boarding up the blind corner and installing a drawer bank, and my partner says that some of those solutions add a lot of wow factor to a kitchen. Which they do. But think of the wow one could generate with a kitchen design that is quite a bit different from anything the neighbors have but is, at the same time, a much more efficient kitchen. That’s some wow, right? And with that, I have described to a “T” the kitchen design we have depicted here. This baby’s got some wow.
And I cannot help noticing the rather slick way in which they wrapped this kitchen around a corner that would be a blind corner, except that these people did something else altogether with it. They made it work and made it work cheaply and efficiently—and with pizzazz (that’s Italian for wow).
Oh, blind corner, where is thy sting? Say, couldn’t we set that to music, like Handel did in The Messiah? Oh corner, blind corner—repeat several times over a soaring Baroque fugue—oh corner, where is thy sting? And after a bit, we could conclude with the Hallelujah Chorus. OK, I know that’s a bit much, but I look at what they did with this corner, and think about all the stuff in my current blind corner that my aging knees are never going to let me see, and, man, I just wanna sing!
Joseph
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One Response to “Diotti Italian Kitchen Designs”
August 7th, 2009 at 4:51 AM
Thanks to Google Alert we found out about this rich and informative blog…our congratulations for its content and thanks very much for your appreciation of the Quadra system. My best regards, Andrea Diotti.