New Materials for Kitchen Design

A kitchen cement and leather. Or aluminum and glass, obviously recyclable. That the crisis has not stopped the search for designers and manufacturers is clear. And these new materials used by manufacturers of kitchens are just some examples of an evolution in which the protagonist furniture for the kitchen, now more than ever the center of the house, and designed to coexist in harmony with the living area.
If the roads from research are many, one of the most interesting is the one on the new materials used or other details that make even the most traditional wood. Arguably the most amazing seem to be the cement that was chosen by the Tuscan Toncelli a reality niche with authentic traces of DNA craft, to interpret a cuisine that combines the most raw material used in construction with treated wood and ennobled dall’intarsio. In truth we are not talking of common cement, but a mixture of technological development in France by Lafarge , a leading manufacturer and refined in its possible use by the Italian The Shipyard . The dough or mousse cement has a very fine particle size that can “read” and reproduce any texture, you can color, light, durable and fire resistant. In other words, very suitable for cooking. Last virtue, is completely devoid of mineral and resin, and ecologically sustainable.

The attention to the environment has always been also the main theme of Valcucine , which has long focused on aluminum and glass, materials chosen for building the frame, or the structure of the kitchen. Farewell then to the old wood chips and room for two materials that can be completely recycled and recovered. Indeed, the same Valcucine assumes responsibility for the disposal of kitchen with glass frame and / or aluminum honeycomb or Riciclantica Artematica of its models at the end of their life cycle, ensuring the free collection. In addition to being sustainable, the glass is also safe thanks to the annealing, a step which reinforces the structure, and lends itself to be colored, printed, decorated and then customized.

The world of transparent glass is also new marriages in the approach to conflict with the rough stone is suitably treated for use in the kitchen. Employed primarily for work plans, can be used 100% for kitchens literally statuesque. In this case, to lighten the weight of the stone is used in thin sheets that are applied on a wooden panel.
About wood, this is probably the material on which the research is more committed to changing their appearance. Decline in the fashion of exotic woods enhanced by the glossy finish, today the focus is on the raw wood apparently lived although the final appearance is achieved with advanced technologies that actually scratch and plow, making the surface uneven. To accentuate the natural is treated only with vegetable oils, ecological as heat treatment, providing temperatures between 180 and 230 °. Cooking that warms the color and makes it nice and durable wood less valuable and more “sustainable” as, for example, acacia.
The look a bit ‘Delabre, finally, is also found on oxidized metals, copper and brass, that can be used for some details, like the backs or hanging in kitchens that although lines are not always essential minimal and warmer than before.