AT Europe: The Kitchen of the Future from Ora Ito for Gorenje

Young French designer Ora-Ïto's black, streamlined, advanced technology, energy-efficient kitchens for European manufacturer Gorenje have raised the bar on kitchen design. And now he's created a prototype, recently shown at the 2008 Foire de Paris, of the "kitchen of the future" for Gorenje...

The bright white, four-ton prototype is freestanding and transportable, made from a single block of material and built so that it can be set up in the open air and equipped with Ito's line of black glass appliances. Its design is based on what Ito calls "simplexité" -- the marriage of the simple and the complicated.

The collection Gorenje
Ora-Ïto (above and below) is available in black or aluminum.

- Kristin Hohenadel blogging from rue Vieille du Temple, Paris, France. She can be reached at kristinh @ apartmenttherapy . com

Comments (8)

Wow the kitchen of the future has no storage.

posted by Comicgeek on May 13th 2008 at 4:29am
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Does it come with a replicator?

posted by Guillermo on May 13th 2008 at 5:29am
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Storage for? It's got a spice/ seasoner rack, enough space for dishes/ dishwasher, a monitor for recipe books and collections, cooking shows... a pantry for all your canned goods and a fridge for all your food. Seriously, unless you want to put your shoe collection in there, you've all the storage ANYONE would need.

posted by Djluckyonline on May 13th 2008 at 8:09am
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Ugh -- if that's the future I'll pass. It looks too sterile for actual biomatter to be processed there.

posted by dblitz1 on May 13th 2008 at 12:55pm
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Where's the Windmill/Solar Panel/Nuclear Reactor to power the appliances of the future?

posted by bepsf on May 13th 2008 at 2:28pm
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Forget the design for a minute, any kitchen with that view will be a hit. One thing I like about it is it is so easy to clean.

Mafan Green lasers rulz

posted by mafan on May 13th 2008 at 9:19pm
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Does anyone else think that it looks like a sewing machine?

posted by robyn on May 14th 2008 at 3:34am
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Reminds me of something out of the old TV. series Space 1999. Perhaps it would make a refreshing alternative to Japanese Capsule Hotels !

posted by salokin on August 24th 2009 at 6:35pm
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