Jasper Morrison designs first kitchen for Schiffini
British designer Jasper Morrison has revealed Lepic, his first industrially produced kitchen (+ slideshow).
Created for Italian manufacturers Schiffini, the Lepic kitchen brings Morrison's "super normal" aesthetic into a new arena.
It features simple hoods, worktops, doors, drawers and units designed around Schiffini's modular system.
Schiffini described the Lepic design as "an apparently easy and intuitive system, but rich in detail".
Related story: Jasper Morrison presents "super-normal" furniture collection for Vitra
The worktops are made from wood fibre panels, plated on both sides with an acrylic laminate. Called Fenix NTM, this material is manufactured by Arpa Industriale using nanotechnology that the Italian company claims allows it to self-fix small scratches.
The kitchen comes in three finishes called white malè, black indigo and beige luxor. Edges are in natural oak or douglas fir.
To debut the kitchen in its Milan showroom, Schiffini presented it in three configurations, each informed by a different city ? Tokyo (white), Stockholm (beige) or Milan (black).
Morrison is considered one of the world's best industrial designers. In 2006 he popularised his self-coined term "super normal" to describe the ideal of unobtrusive but atmospheric design.
"The super normal object is the result of a long tradition of evolutionary advancement in the shape of everyday things, not attempting to break with the hist...
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