Joe Colombo's Minikitchen

Talk about minimalism! Another great find from NYT Style Magazine, Italian kitchen and bath specialists, Boffi, are re-releasing Joe Colombo's 1964 Minikitchen. The wheeled kitchen features a mini fridge, two burners, outlets for appliances, a cutting board, and multiple storage compartments. As Pilar Viladas writes for NYT, it's everything but the kitchen sink...

I'd love to have a studio aparment with a large industrial sink and Minikitchen. Designboom's archives have a lot of information about the designer, Joe Colombo.—aaron

Comments (3)

I wish they'd picture it full of stuff/in use.

posted by Nina P on 2006-10-17 12:26:33

Small kitchens make a lot of sense for a lot of people. The developers of America apparently have not figured that out yet.
I'm looking for a small 1-bedroom condo (because that's all I can afford) in DC and everything I look at that's been renovated has a HUGE kitchen, at the expense of living space in the other rooms. Oftentimes there is no room for any sort of dining table... are you supposed to be making elaborate multic-course meals for guests and eating them on the sofa? How many young single people who would be buying a 1-BR condo are spending a lot of time cooking? Most people I know use their kitchens to make coffee and store beer in the fridge.
How about smaller kitchens that would leave space for a mini office? (Computers, the internet, printers... have developers heard of these cutting-edge new developments?)

posted by Rob on 2006-10-17 13:54:22

This is the grooviest thing I never knew about. Now I'm hungry.

posted by Scott on 2006-10-17 14:34:38