Stemik Italian Kitchen Designs
15 January 2010
“Good Golly, Miss Molly!”
I actually don’t know what kind of title to use for today’s blog, simply because I have come across one of the slickest kitchens I believe I ever have seen. Man, I cannot tell you how much I wish we had a home that lent itself to something like those glorious European kitchens I am forever writing about. And forever writing about them for a pretty valid reason, I think. Because they are so very much on the cutting edge of kitchen design. And yet, and yet, and yet. These European designs in general, and the Domina kitchen designs from Stemik in particular, have despite their daring, the one element that I hold to be most essential to any kitchen design. They are timeless.
Frank Lloyd Wright came up with designs over a hundred years ago that are still being imitated and discussed and used. And his signature home, the Fallingwater, was designed and built some eighty years ago. But he had, somehow, a way of making something that was at once brand new and yet an instant classic. Many of his homes have become museums, not because they are antiquated, but simply because there are so many people so incredibly smitten with his designs that they look for ways to make them available to us all.
I honestly believe that the Domina kitchen could eventually be one of these seminal designs. Europe has been working with curves and rounds for some time, and now we have this, this wondrous, sinuous swoop through the kitchen, which is brought to us through the good offices of Stemik, which is a British firm that specializes in high quality Italian kitchens, which is a term that just seems redundant somehow. Trust me on this, I’ve been looking at Italian kitchens for almost two years now, and I’ve yet to see one that wasn’t high quality!
What Stemik is out to achieve for their clients, though, is well, I don’t want to say easy to obtain, but certainly specializing in Italian imports is going to make it a much more obtainable goal. But what they most want to ensure for their clients is a kitchen that “becomes a place to entertain, socialize and relax.” More and more these days, kitchens truly are becoming the heart of the home, and with people like Stemik to lead the way, it’s not hard to figure out why this is so. The Domina kitchen design we’ve featured here is certainly a case in point.
The picture that first caught my eye as I made my way through cyberspace is the one that tops this blog. It looks like this particular kitchen is in a loft home of some sort, but the concept of this particular kitchen as “heart of the home” is pretty much a no brainer. And what I find particularly appealing about the grace of this design is that, although it would certainly be the center feature in any home, it would not necessarily be the dominant feature-because there’s a difference. There is something about these lines that almost seems to embrace a person, like a mother holding her first born.
And, as seems to be pretty much the norm with Italian kitchen designs these days, there are a number of variations on this theme of arcs and circles and curving lines. But all of them have this in common: much that is sinuous and graceful. Honest to goodness, it really is hard for me to talk about Domina kitchen designs without gushing. I honestly think they should call it the Molly. because golly!
Joseph
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January 20th, 2010 at 6:01 AM
Sensuous lines! A bit of a hard sell on New England. We keep looking for the right client who has an appreciation of true contemporary deign such as this. Some day, we’ll cross paths…