The kitchen, together with the bathroom, is a room that belongs to the culture of the twentieth century. In previous centuries, even the most brilliant, cuisine as we know it today was not contemplated at all.

In peasant societies, for example, there were the hearth or the wood-burning stove, where people cooked and near which they gathered to eat meals, often frugal ones.

Then there were the kitchens of the great aristocratic families, often located in the cellars or in areas where the servants did not interfere with the life of the lords, who did not bother cooking but loved sumptuous meals.

With the industrial revolution everything changes: the poor free themselves from servitude and a democratic bourgeois class takes over an aristocratic class totally inadequate to the historical period of industrial machinery.

The kitchen of the modern era was a 'machine' that was perfected over the years: increasingly more engineered appliances were introduced and the spaces were divided according to rational criteria.

Now what happens in this new millennium?

The kitchen goes beyond the confines of the functional room and, like a Cinderella, transforms into a sophisticated space, often associated with the living room.

Central counters, invisible appliances, dedicated lights, fine covering materials such as stone, steel and wood. Extension kitchen, status symbol kitchen, family kitchen, but increasingly high performance kitchen, designed and manufactured in Italy.

The manufacturing companies have reached a level of quality in design that makes the kitchens unparalleled.

Today the world no longer aspires only to good Italian food: it also wants a made in Italy kitchen system, a space of comfort and work that is available in all the languages ​​of the world.

On the cover: Luce di Carrara, Perforations, project by Carole Baijings, ph. Nicola Gnesi