

Fenix NTM is an extremely durable thermo-laminate material suitable for use in a wide range of products, from countertops and cabinets to sinks and showers. Sipario blends traditional materials such as wood, glass, and stainless steel, with Fenix NTM, one of the most advanced materials used in industrial design. The Sipario kitchen showing an integrated gas cooktop. The renewed attention to topics such as nutrition, food quality, health and well being, and life expectancy, could shift attention towards creating a kitchen space that facilitates the management of well being and simplifies the complexity of these themes,” he said. “To meet today’s housing and hospitality needs, we tried to rediscover the values of tradition and recover the sensorial side of the materials, proposing a high-quality aesthetic. According to Hasuike, the future of kitchen design will include smart technology embedded in the design stage, rather than after the fact as part of singular appliances. The door opens vertically with a servo drive mechanism. The curtain is a wide single-door cabinet with glass shelving and integrated lighting and ventilation. He opened the first industrial design studio Makio Hasuike & Co in Milan in 1968, focusing his practice on his vision of design: part of nature, non-violent, harmonious, and sometimes invisible.Īn early sketch for the Sipario kitchen showing the “curtain” by Makio Hasuike. So I decided that Italy was my destination,” he said. The sensations that the images of the Italian magazines conveyed to me had an incomparable charm.

“When I was in Japan, I often used to look at architecture and design magazines like Casabella, Domus. He spent the first four years refining his skills, working under Rodolfo Bonetto, one of the great masters of Italian design. The Sipario kitchen, designed by Makio Hasuike for Aran Cucine.Īfter graduating from Tokyo’s University of Arts, he relocated to Italy. Operating in design seemed suitable to my sensitivity, combining my artistic attitude and my pragmatic side,” he said. “I wanted to be useful to the social development. He believed design could improve quality of life in a democratic way using the power of technology and industry, and he continues to work under that guise today. Hasuike, an idealistic youth driven by a sense of social justice, was born and raised in Tokyo. This elegant, minimalist kitchen debuted to excitement and acclaim this spring at Milan’s annual furniture fair and is now available in the U.S. Renowned industrial designer Makio Hasuike is behind Sipario, a new modern kitchen collection from Aran Cucine.Īt the intersection of Japanese simplicity and Italian modernist design is Sipario, a new kitchen collection created by renowned industrial designer Makio Hasuike.
