British designer Tom Dixon has created a kitchen designed to resemble jagged chunks of ice and made using solid-surface material Caesarstone.
The installation ? named Ice ? is the first instalment of a year-long collaboration between Dixon and Caesarstone, and was unveiled at the Interior Design Show in Toronto this week.

The design is influenced by the jagged pieces left over when Canada's frozen lakes are cleared by icebreakers during the winter.
To reflect this, Dixon, best known for designs including cog-like light fixtures  and brass tea sets, developed a series of triangular-shaped prisms in different sizes and heights. These form serving stations, surfaces and stools.

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"In our Toronto show we propose a food preparation and consumption space, which draws on the analogy of the kitchen as an alchemist's laboratory where raw materials are transformed into treasure through the elemental process of freezing, melting, shaving and cooking with ice," said Dixon.
"Where the contemporary kitchen seeks to hide the activities behind a series of minimal blocks, here we expose the chopping, the steaming, the freezing, the scouring and the disposal of waste in all its active glory," he added.

The Ice kitchen is the first of four kitchens themed around the elements of Ice, Fire, Earth and Air. The concept also celebrates local fo...