MINIKITCHEN

Overview

MINIKITCHEN By Boffi

Designer: Joe Colombo

Manufacture year: 1963

Type: Moveable kitchen with castors

It was in 1963 that Joe Colombo designed for Boffi the Minikitchen, a mobile kitchen cube on wheels.‎ This features a vision of a prophet, able to anticipate the evolution of the compact kitchen and, more generally, of contemporary living by over half a century.‎ “Things have to be flexible”, the designer said in 1966, “my kitchen can be easily moved when not in use, it closes in a single compact volume like a box”.‎ Minikitchen is a complete unit on wheels and electrically powered that comprises everything needed from a kitchen, even if in miniature: refrigerator, cooking range, containers, drawers for pots and dishes for six people, pull-out tray, sockets for small electric appliances, cutting boards.‎ It won the silver medal at the XIII Triennale di Milano in 1964 and was exhibited at the MoMA in the legendary 1972 exhibition 'Italy: The New Domestic Landscape'; today it is part of the permanent collection of the New York museum and of other important museums in the world.‎ Today this compact kitchen is proposed in a version made of white Corian® with two swivelling castors and two with block brakes: but if modifications have been made to technical aspects and materials, the form and concept remain intact.‎ It contains a 60-liter fridge and an electric cooking plate, as well as storage compartments, chopping board, pull-out top and power sockets for small appliances.‎ It measures just over one meter wide, one meter high, 650 mm deep.‎ Dimensions: L.‎ 1090 P.‎ 650 H.‎ 979 mm