The Minikitchen Produced by Boffi, this compact, miniature kitchen is nothing short of avant-garde when designed by Joe Colombo in the 1960s.
The concept for Joe Colombo’s Minikitchen is visionary: it is a self-sufficient monoblock with all the amenities of a classic kitchen, electrically powered and occupying half a cubic meter.
Boffi ‘s Minikitchen is ahead of its time, it is a narrative of today’s society despite the fact that Joe Colombo designed its configuration in the 1960s, this is a clear symptom of the genius of someone who not only had the ability to interpret an era but to imagine future trends in living.
A kitchen on wheels, freely placeable, and equipped with a refrigerator, cooktop, storage units, drawers, countertop, cutting board, and appliance outlets, that seems designed for contemporary, often small-scale, open-plan environments as in a loft or shared as in a co-working space.
Today this compact mini kitchen is produced by Boffi in an outdoor version and in Corian® but despite the technical devices adopted what is striking is the total absence of formal and conceptual changes from the original design, which is more relevant today than ever before.
It won the silver medal at the 13th Milan Triennale and today in its original version is on display at MoMA in New York, part of the permanent collection of one of the world’s most important design museums.
There are few designs that remain relevant after half a century, and the Minikitchen produced by Boffi and designed by Joe Colombo is one of them.
