In this Dezeen movie for Caesarstone, designer Tom Dixon explains how the four sculptural kitchens he created for The Restaurant installation in Milan were designed to satisfy “the mini celebrity chef” in people.
The Restaurant installation, which ran during Milan Design Week inside the Rotonda della Besana deconsecrated church, consisted of four Dixon-designed kitchens and dining areas created for leading quartz surface brand Caesarstone.
Visitors were encouraged to move between the kitchens, with each one serving a different course from a menu devised by Italian studio Arabeschi di Latte.
“It is a fully working restaurant, and what we have created is four kitchens based on the four elements of fire, air, water and earth,” Dixon explains in the movie.
“We used a series of different Caesarstone products with different colour tones to really enhance the idea of the four elements.”
The water-inspired kitchen featured a series of angular counters, worktops, tables and stools made from Caesarstone’s engineered quartz material.
“You can’t bend stone, but you can bend Caesarstone,” Dixon says. “So you can curve it, which is interesting.”
The Restaurant was on show at Rotonda della Besana in Milan from 12 to 17 April 2016. Elements from the water kitchen were first displayed at the Interior Design Show in Toronto in January 2016. Caesarstone is planning to display the fire and air kitchens at other design shows later in the year.
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