The Taste of Technology | Architonic

Some 35 years after its inception in the Friuli Venezia region of northern Italy, internationally renowned kitchen brand Valcucine still leads the global pack in terms of design, detailing and tech-savvy. It hasn’t done this by responding to trends or fashions however, but by focusing on long-term key values such as well-being, timelessness and innovation. Well-being in the sense of ergonomics, tactility and ease-of-use (Valcucine pioneered the fully equipped back panel in the 1990s, a place for storage, illumination and power sockets); timelessness because its main ethos has long been sustainability, recyclability and durability (and timelessness means you are less likely to want to throw out your kitchen when you get bored); and innovation because, well, the brand was the first company to make a kitchen – Artematica with Invitrum base units – where all the units and doors are 100% recyclable, as well as the first to produce a system – Riciclantica – where the unit doors and panels me

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