Ratio, the second kitchen collection designed for Dada by Vincent Van Duysen, is renewed in its modularity and materials, while retaining the same design qualities with compositional forms resembling buildings. Metal grids configure the architecture of bases, wall units, columns, cooker hoods and accessories. Voids and solids and worktops of different thicknesses attached to the slender and minimalist structural technical elements generate a virtuoso interplay of balances. In this island layout, complete with furnishings and accessories, the door with its vertical grain, just 13 mm thick, has a handle with an unusual profile and a bronze metallic finish. The research into materials is oriented towards warm Mediterranean qualities, alternating between refined wood, such as the new eucalyptus finish, and natural stone like Rapolano travertine combined with sophisticated metals. Van Duysen himself describes his project in these words: “The kitchen is laid out on two levels, the structural one, consisting of the uprights, and the surfaces. The intersection of vertical and horizontal lines endows the product with a surprisingly graphic and architectural quality, conveyed by the arrangement of uprights, doors and vertical surfaces.”