Neutral Cabinets on the Outside, Festive on the Inside

Stilleben, a design retailer within the coronary heart of Copenhagen, makes a speciality of family objects that “replicate the time we reside in.” Along with promoting work by up to date artisans, the model has its personal collections of ceramics, glass, and prints, even hair clips. A couple of years in the past, Stilleben Kitchens was, for a time, added to the roster.

Created by Stilleben founders Ditte Reckweg and Jelena Schou Nordentoft in collaboration with architect Ditlev Rahbek, the designs purpose to current the kitchen as “each a sensible work place and a social dwelling house.⁠” And although not out there via Stilleben, Reckweg’s agency, Stillark, continues to supply the kitchens.

The 2 fashions on provide are all about solid-wood craftsmanship, performance (together with a shock place to perch), and suave colour: The exteriors and interiors are sometimes painted in two totally different tones so as to add a contact of shock and Danish-style joie de vivre.

Right here’s an instance of the top-of-the-line model, the Body Kitchen, composed of modules tailored to every family’s wants and house. An identical, extra price range mannequin, the Part Kitchen, can be out there.

Images courtesy of Stilleben and Stilleben Architects.

The kitchen belongs to Marie Louise and Mads and their three younger youngsters who moved from an house to a Nineteen Twenties townhouse in Fredericksburg, simply west of Copenhagen, to realize more room—and have the ability to set up their excellent kitchen. “The design needed to be sensible and maintain intensive on a regular basis use the place spilling and taking part in with meals are a part of life,” says Marie Louise who works for Unicef. “We like the truth that the look is modest and doesn’t demand your consideration, whereas on the identical time it lifts all the things round it.”