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Gicinque Cucine this year released a number of different kitchen setups which may be just the one for your home! Showcased at the Eurocucine in Milan this year, Krystal awas a fundamental reform in the way kitchen designers think. It doesn’t fall short of being a paradigm shift, sculpting the natural elements into the whole setup.
“With its innovative design, Krystal is a next generation kitchen, designed to meet the demand for gentle, cuttingedge shapes. In this kitchen curves become sculpted elements that match the clear-cut, essential and sometimes rigorous lines of the overall kitchen design to achieve elegance, simplicity and harmony,” said a press statement from the firm. “Rounded base, wall and tall units are the protagonists, creating a practical and unique kitchen while leaving maximum scope for expression to those who want to show their personality in a room that is increasingly becoming the most used in a home.”
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By Nader Ramadan Images coutesy of Gicinque Cucine Design Team: Charme-Stefano Spessotto and Lorella Agnoletto Krystal-Adriani & Rossi Canova-Stefano Spessotto and Lorella Agnoletto Elite-Gicinque Cucine
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Building on this momentum, Charme is a tribute to the “nobility of bygone days” with its organic forms and purely natural inspirations and motifs. This kitchen is both fit to integrate style and technology in one go.
“In the precious lacquered version, Charme distinguishes itself as a decisively exclusive environment with colors endowed by a nobility of bygone days, yet having a contemporary pureness of forms,” the press statement said.
Canova is also a marked success in the company’s endless line of prominent kitchen sets, especially with the color variation and attention to detail used in this particular collection. Canova strives to be a special type of special therapy for the user.
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“Next to the wooden doors with walnut finish you can find always wooden doors but in 6 different colors (cream, ginger, mustard, anthracite, dew, mauve); the whole is completed by the wealth of details that differentiate this kitchen from other projects,” said the press statement. “We propose a picture of Canova in the mauve finish, a delicate and regenerating green, almost able to perform a therapeutic function for the soul, as well as the medicinal plant does for the body.” If we are going to talk about the integration of any functional component of the kitchen design to certain stylistic
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elements, Elite is the only collection which completes the lot. This kitchen set is built with fully customizable features which the user may find useful for the purpose of creating as many applications as they want.
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“Elite: an evolved kitchen design lets you enjoy kitchen spaces. Classic or modern compositions can be achieved in this elegant contemporary kitchen with customised features. This kitchen does not forgo cutting-edge solutions or state-of-the-art technology,” said the press statement in its description of the collection. “Another distinct feature that makes Elite stand out is how it integrates with the living area, turning the kitchen into an attractive and cosy room, the “heart” of the home.”
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Gicinque Cucine prides itself on being one of Italy’s top kitchen designers and manufacturers for just about half century. Owned by the Zaccariotto family, this company not only has a long inherited tradition of excellence in production but it has the same element of devotion as family members have with each other, which is love.
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