Segno and Sinuosa Kitchen Designs by Effeti
9 February 2010
“Color My World”
Some time back I wrote a blog on an Effeti kitchen design that I liked a lot, despite its monochrome white. I say that because I do think a lot of us prefer color in the kitchen and are inclined, therefore, to dismiss out of hand anything that does not have a fair amount of color. For my own self, though, I was most impressed with the cleanness of line in that kitchen, the Sinuosa, and by the fairly innovative way they incorporated the necessary kitchen hood over an island. I bring all this up, though, because for those who may have hung back from this type of design because of a lack of color, man, do these people have something to shout about!
Effeti is one of the more innovative Italian kitchen designers, although, truth to tell, I could probably say that about every Italian kitchen designer I encounter. I don’t know if it’s t
he warm Tuscan sun or the clear blue skies or something in the water. Hell, maybe it’s because they also invented pizza! But whatever the source, it is fair to say that Italian designers are very much on the cutting edge of what can be done with kitchen design, and our case in point is today’s selection of Effeti kitchen designs.
Let’s start with the Sinuosa, because they have changed this design quite a bit simply by giving it a wonderful splash of color. And when these people do color, they’re not messing around with anything timid. No, sir! They’ve used a glorious splash of buttercup yellow. That’ll get your mornings going with a bang! But, really, what makes this kitchen design work in yellow is what made it work in white. It is minimalism personified. Using simple, pure lines, it defines a kitchen and provides all the storage a body could need.
And, as they did in the first Sinuosa I reviewed, they have designed a kitchen hood that does its job effectively while making a statement. This time Effeti has run the hood down from the ceiling, which, really, is the better way of venting a cooktop on an island. The cooks who know prefer gas, and gas does not work well with down draft kitchen hoods, as they have a way of pulling the flames to the back of the burner, thereby creating an enormous cool spot on the front half of the pot or pan.
The other kitchen design that Effeti has introduced is the Segno kitchen design at the top of this blog, which is minimalism gone MAXimalism! It has the same clean lines that do such a wonderful job of defining a kitchen clear of clutter, but this kitchen design is larger, so you can store more in it. The other part of things, of course, is simply a continuation of the minimalism that guides so many European kitchen designs these day, carried out here by a forward-looking designer named Giancarlo Vegni who has created a kitchen design with streamlined cabinets and handles, seamless countertops and furniture melding into a combined eating-entertaining-living space, in keeping with what is rapidly becoming a world-wide movement, the concept of the kitchen as a family living space, in which food preparation occasionally takes place. At the moment there is only the white for our consideration, but given the Sinuosa that morphed into that glorious yellow, color for the Segno seems pretty much a given.
Joseph
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