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Height-Adjustable Kitchens with Disappearing Fixtures

Hidden electric motors yield a kitchen seemingly designed by Q Branch

By Rain Noe - September 30, 2015

in Interior/Exhibition Design | Food

When people are differing heights, you've got an ergonomics problem. At a movie theater in Copenhagen, I saw something bizarre (to my American eyes) stacked up in the corner: Adult booster seat cushions. Inevitably some Viking-tall Dane would sit in the fourth row, obscuring the view of those more height-challenged behind him, who would then avail themselves of the cushions (amusingly, this created a domino effect).

What to do, in the kitchen, if you're a 6'6" Danish man with a 5'11" wife and a 4' child? To ensure all can enjoy optimum-height worksurfaces, Danish company Sønderborg Køkkenet has devised the Baselift system:

BASELIFT - ver. 2-HD from Sønderborg Køkkenet on Vimeo.

The company's mum on the inner workings, revealing only that the hidden motors operate "almost silently" and do not take up any cabinet or drawer space. And that's not the only trick the company's got up their sleeves—have a look at this video, and be sure to keep your eyes peeled at the 1:00 mark:

Elevation from Sønderborg Køkkenet on Vimeo.

How crazy is that disappearing faucet? I'm also digging the side-draft kitchen hood, the pop-up cupboard...heck, I want the whole thing.

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Raul Gonzalez III

9 years ago

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1:00 minute was so amm, product-design-porn-ish. The only thing i don´t understand is why the need to have a blurry, auto of focus photograph added at :55".

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Bryce Moulton

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They are most definitely using Linak actuators, commonly used for commercial height adjustable desks. You can see their logo on the switch if you look carefully. They make a kit to add a base lift systems to your own kitchen island. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GFGdDEJo-eE

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