Magi Cucine is really well named because they’re wise enough to do something useful with the space occupied by the kitchen hood. Realizing that the storage space “lost” was never really there in the first place, they have used that space to create any number of wonderful artistic statements.

One of the newer players in the field of kitchen hoods is also one of the more innovative. Gutmann is a German manufacturing company that was founded in 1997, but it has immediately shot to the top insofar as both design and function are concerned.

Elica has done some truly extraordinary things with what was formerly the most pedestrian element in anyone’s kitchen, the hood.

I have read that high performing Miele exhaust hoods should be on the short list of everyone who can afford them, but when I read a statement like that