Editor's Note
This editor’s note highlights the key facts and market implications behind “From the Elica Observatory: Kitchen Trends 2018”, with emphasis on sourcing, product fit, fabrication, logistics, or buyer impact.
January 29, 2018 – With the arrival of the new year comes the desire to change and renew the home to best suit one's tastes and needs, while keeping up with the latest furnishing trends. The Elica Observatory's look at kitchen trends for 2018 places functional aspects that combine with the search for new materials at the center of Italians' desires. The primary goal is to simplify daily life with style in what has now become the most lived-in domestic environment, aided by the increasingly smaller dimensions of today's homes that fuse the kitchen with the living room.
From the dialogue with designers and planners, it is highlighted how the new year will be characterized by important innovations in the choice of materials. From an aesthetic point of view, concrete and wood stand out as leading materials, urban and nature-inspired elements that are very trendy, as are solid surfaces—hypoallergenic, non-toxic materials characterized by the absence of pores, durability, reduced maintenance, and from which any type of superficial 'aggression' can be easily removed. A perfect union of material and technology is represented by Elica's Bio hood, an exclusive furnishing object that combines natural materials, suction, quietness, and filtering efficiency.
An important element will be facilitating maintenance and cleaning operations, especially in the kitchen, where there will be an increasing tendency towards linear forms.
A key topic will be light, which will become the absolute protagonist of the kitchen, capable of creating the right atmosphere and personalizing the space. According to research conducted by Elica, it emerges that 70% of Italians use the hood even just to illuminate the worktop independently of turning on the burners, while 60% use it even to light the surrounding environment.
A product that perfectly combines automatic suction, cooking, ease of use and maintenance with top-of-the-category performance is NikolaTesla, designed by Fabrizio Crisà, an induction cooktop with integrated suction that automatically removes fumes and odors with a capture speed five times greater than their rise, the most powerful on the market. Furthermore, NikolaTesla connects with Elica's innovative SNAP suction system, which monitors and automatically improves air quality even in the living room. Thanks to the presence of three sensors and a sophisticated SNAP algorithm, it reduces the presence of pollutants, odors, and excess steam in enclosed spaces in just 30 minutes.
The open space trend is confirmed, a space that combines kitchen and living room where guests are welcomed and most time is spent within the home walls. An environment increasingly representative of the person, in this place one fully expresses oneself and the furnishings tell one's character and style. Alongside the aesthetic choices already highlighted, to best enjoy the open space it is essential to constantly guarantee perfect air quality in the home, even beyond the moments solely dedicated to cooking. The solution will increasingly be to opt for a hood that is not just an appliance but an intelligent system capable of guaranteeing continuous air monitoring, controlled remotely and activated automatically.
Source: Read the original article | Published: January 29, 2018