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The Evolution of the Kitchen
THE LATEST EDITION OF COSENTINO’S GLOBAL KITCHEN REPORT UNCOVERS SOME OF THE TRENDS THAT ARE SHAPING OUR HOMES AND HABITS, FROM HEALTHY EATING TO CHANGING MEAL TIMES, AND FROM TECHNOLOGY TO MATERIALS
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entral to the work of any kitchen designer is a real understanding of the client and what drives their lifestyle patterns
and choices. It can be hard to grasp an understanding of the broader issues based on individual preferences, but an extensive study of consumers and their kitchens by surface brand Cosentino and the Silestone Institute picks out some important wider trends that could influence the way people use the space for years to come.
Of its key conclusions, the
understanding of the kitchen regaining its central role within the home is reinforced, with it being the space in which people choose to have practically every meal during the day, as well as the area increasingly used for other activities such as working or socialising. Perhaps for this reason, one of the other key results is an increasingly
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desire for kitchens that don’t look like kitchens, with a greater emphasis on the room being based as much on comfort as on pure functionality.
Other key developments emerge too, with social networks taking the lead over home automation in the kitchen, although evidence suggests the brave new technological world of the high- tech kitchen will be something of a slow-burner, and begin in earnest with some of the kitchen’s most basic tasks. The survey is a detailed study based on responses from a number of countries including Australia, Canada, Italy, US, UK, Spain, UAE, and Singapore, with a sample of 4,500 people. Information was also gathered from a survey of users of the Cosentino Facebook page in eight countries, as well as interviews with 23 experts of different disciplines.
Francisco Martínez-Cosentino Justo, President of the Cosentino Group, said: “The Global Kitchen project was born in 2016 with the
intention of taking one step forward in the Silestone Institute’s founding objective: to provide new specialised knowledge about the kitchen space in order to encourage reflection and to contribute to its evolution in the current socioeconomic and cultural environment. Specifically, Global Kitchen was born as a project focused on the analysis of the domestic kitchen from a dual perspective: both from the point of view of users from different countries, as well as experts in an array of different disciplines.”
With the title, The Domestic Kitchen in the Era of Globalisation, the first study by Global Kitchen pointed out some of the key trends in the present and future of the domestic kitchen. Some of the highlights include the function of the kitchen space as the centre of life in a household, used for activities that typically took place in other rooms, and acquiring relevance as the main room in a home. Justo added: “This concept is the starting point for the latest study,
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