Playful Kitchens – Karim Rashid for Scavolini
Those playful Italians, what will they do next? Have you seen Karim Rashid’s designs for Scavolini’s Crystal line? No boring kitchens here:
Pop Art Inspiration
Quite a contrast
Another colorway
Goes with everything
(photos Scavolini via Trendir). It’s gotta be tough when you always have to be at the cutting edge of design – this makes back-painted and mirrored glass cabinet fronts seem so “last decade”. Here’s an excerpt from Scavolini’s published interview with Mr. Rashid:
Now decoration can add a further emotion and a new meaning to the flat and mono-chromatic world of modernism. With reference to this, I developed some digital graphic ideas to express the spirit of our times. This is what I did with Scavolini. I embellished the glass surfaces to transform two-dimensional kitchens into spaces endowed with more complex dimensions.
The man himself
It’s definitely not flat and monochromatic, I can say that. It would be neat if we were allowed to do our own designs, wouldn’t it – like custom wallpaper? Do you think they’ll be selling many of these?
I admire how Mr. Rashid is always pushing the envelope – someone needs to keep kitchens from becoming universally prosaic
Yes could be hard to handle the morning after one too many vinos. Really cool design and creativity though and exactly what you would expect from Karim Rashid. I was at the Eurocucina show in Milan a few years ago and saw the introduction of print design on cabinets. Nothing like this though….this is way out there!
Ha, Cheryl, I’m choking on my OJ
. Pepto Bismol indeed!
Me too
I wouldn’t buy the kitchen, but I love his outfit! I’d buy that.
Oops…hit submit too soon! This dollhouse has all sliding doors…lots of color…retro with contemporary twist..and it has to be almost 9 or 10 yrs old!
I love Karim but not sure about how I would feel walking into one of these kitchens looking for OJ after too much vino the night before…Might make feel like I had throw up the pepto bismol that I had just ingested….funny though, I sold some of his modern dollhouses years and years ago in my retail shop..for fun..I still have one and it is the coolest house ever