For the third time I am doing a kitchen together with Finnish brand Puustelli with focus on coming trends. This year we are looking at 2025 and ask ourselves – what is a kitchen?
After my trips to Milan in April this year, I was thinking about the conversations there. Everyone was talking about the future and what it could possibly be. What is a home? How do I make my mark at a place?
I took this conversation and looked at this kitchen. What is a kitchen? Should we work in it? Or only do food delivieries? Do yoga? The questions ended up in a very flexible kitchen. This kitchen is deliberately small. Not a cheap kitchenette but actually a real kitchen with all functionalities. But with doors so you can close it and it doen’t feel like a ktichen at all.
The doors that open and close are a super feature. With just a easy push, you can open and close.
With a quick move, you press the automatic doors and hide the kitchen. And you could play ping-pong or throw a party.
I wanted the kitchen island to feel like a furniture piece and not like a part of the kitchen. Therefore small drawers.
The kitchen I did for 2023 was a kitchen for showing your creativity and it was very pink and peach. It was a fun kitchen. The second kitchen for 2024 was pretty much a premium kitchen. I made super large, rounded kitchen islands. We called this a kitchen for celebrations and we even made a kitchen cabinet only for champagne. And now this. A kitchen that can be something else. Whatever you want it to be.
The kitchen was also having a lot of features from the trend I introduced at Stora Trenddagen. We see the trend I call “Serene Scenery”. Meaning that we see a lot of laidback colours with focus on history and craft. The red is a hue I would like to call Karin Larsson-red. But we mix darker hues with purple, minty blue and purple.
The names if the colours. In English it would be . from left to right. Dark brown, Plum, Rowan berries, Artichoke, Peach and Sage.
Nostalgia is of course huge in the trend world. In this kitchen we managed to fit a classical Finnish feature. It is a drip rack for plates. When you rinse the plates you dry them in a rack above the sink. There is a drip tray so it doesn’t get the things below wet. But you get your dishes out of your sight. This is something every Finnish household had in the 60s and 70s.
Isn’t it a super nice kitchen? I want it. Below we see the same room but with different features.