The kitchen is dead. Long live the ... active living space?

摘要

For most, kitchen design is a travesty, a miserable compromise. It has become a coalition of limited ambition between designers, architects, the cabinet industry, and the rigid mind-set of homeowners. The kitchen's stunted landscape is dominated by commercial opportunities for hungry salespeople, low levels of design skill, and manufacturers whose design decisions are dominated by logistics. The end results are eerily similar, the spaces antisocial, and the ergonomics poor.