Kitchen Design for South East London
A legacy of Italian design
In post-war Italy, a generation of architects and designers began to rethink the relationship between craft, industry and the home.
Moving away from the ornamentation of earlier styles, they treated function and aesthetics as part of the same conversation rather than opposing forces, experimenting with proportion, material and new methods of manufacture to create interiors that felt refined without relying on ornament. The result was a distinctly Italian approach, one that still shapes kitchen interior design today, from clean-lined cabinetry to enduring icons such as the Flos Arco floor lamp shown above.
Origins of Italian industrial design
Italy came out of the war with its economy in pieces and rebuilt it on manufacturing for export. Anything leaving the country had to be good enough to compete abroad, so design and quality had to be brought to mass production.
At the same time the way people lived at home was loosening. Meal prep moved out of the back kitchen and into the living area, and cabinetry had to start holding its own as furniture. That’s where the fitted kitchen we now take for granted comes from.
Designed around you
That same principle, function and form considered together, is how we approach every kitchen we design.
You’ll work with Andrew, a kitchen and design enthusiast who has spent the last 30 years creating Italian kitchens from our Brockley kitchen studio. Not content to be passionate about design, he takes the time to understand how you cook, how you entertain and how you want to live in the space, then shapes the layout, materials and finishes around that. It’s a considered process rather than a quick sell, and Andrew gives you the kind of attention a kitchen renovation deserves.
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In our Brockley kitchen studio or at your kitchen table, every Puccini kitchen starts with a conversation about how you want to live in the space. From there, we’ll see it through from first sketch to final fit.
