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Bulthaup's painfully beautiful "tool cabinet" for kitchens

By Rain Noe - August 20, 2010

in Object Culture

I live in a converted sweatshop with two dogs, and it is a lot less cool and lot more rough than you think. One particular sore spot is my "kitchen," a pathetic and cobbled-together assortment of cast-off drawers, cabinets and surfaces mostly made out of other people's garbage. So it's pure torture that my dogwalking route takes me past the Bulthaup showroom two or three times a day.

The German high-end kitchen manufacturer produces the stunning B2 kitchen workshop, which I drool over daily. Not so much the ostentatious B2 workbench, but definitely the dual "tool cabinets," which are designed to hold an array of "appliances, crockery, tools and ingredients....[this is a] kitchen for pioneers in the art of thinking and living."

Hit the jump for more shots and info.

The essence of that which makes and signifies a kitchen is incorporated in bulthaup b2. In developing this system, therefore, the emphasis was on identifying the amount of storage space actually required in kitchen cabinets and the quantity of cooking implements, crockery and household appliances really needed. The important was separated from the unimportant to allow the greatest possible concentration on the essentials, create perfect order, afford clarity and maintain everything in reach. This amounts to no less than being free to choose the best day after day.

Share my pain and learn more about the B2--including the rather bizarre-sounding, artsy "poetical analysis" design methodology behind it--here.

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Jim Brevis

14 years ago

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Filly? FRILLY? You ought to reTHINK your definition of "frilly". This is rather the opposite of frilly, no?

Personally, I regularly use 30+ dried spices and herbs - I just added ten more units to my 25 container, wall-mounted spice set up to better accommodate my needs. The beauty of choice is that people like me can get a system like this and people like you can...
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charles fortner

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too frilly. What are the ten dried spices you use most? How much room do you actually need for freezer and/or refrigerator space-milk, buttermilk, cream, other juices. how much of that nonsense can (or should be had) for next to nothing -how about a quarter loaf of bread, how about goldfish bowl aquaculture, how about real windobox agriculture. THINK man, THINK.
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Doug Hall

14 years ago

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James,
The bulthaup b2 system is available in Oak and Walnut. Walnut is the finish shown in the first picture.
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Mimi Harrison

14 years ago

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Woof. Want it, too.
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Shalin

14 years ago

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Amazing. Want. I'll bet a knock off, kit, or instructables version will be available relatively soon...

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James

14 years ago

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Beautiful design. What kind of wood/finish is that in the first picture?
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