Hasta La Ideas

Once upon a time we all gathered around the firepit in our caves, and once we learned to build houses they were centered around the hearth. By the time the 20th century rolled around it was observed that most dinner parties end up with everyone hanging out in the kitchen. Home, apparently, is where the hearth is.

Alberto Colonello’s On/Off kitchen design for Boffi is as far from this basic concept as you can get; it’s a stainless steel “monoblock” designed to disappear at the touch of a button, leaving your guests milling about in front of a nearly featureless gray wall.

A little on the cold side if you ask us, but it’s surely an effective way of signaling that the party’s over. Press the button after someone’s lengthily-recounted anecdote turns out to be less exciting than anticipated, and listen to the awkward silence that settles over the room as your kitchen clicks shut. They may as well include an LED panel that flashes DON’T LET THE DOOR HIT YOU IN THE ASS ON THE WAY OUT after it closes.

via trendir

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