Kitchen design has always been at the forefront of the furniture industry. A huge number of innovations, stylistic discoveries and interior concepts were born precisely when creating kitchens, and then inevitably changed fashion and our life. The more interesting to watch the kitchen news now and guess what will happen in the near future with our interiors. For example, it is obvious that in the kitchen design more and more attention is paid to emotions and comfort. Designers seek to soften the color scheme, use materials with pleasant tactile properties, give the kitchen individuality and originality, but not at the expense of artificial concepts and formal methods, but with the help of cute details, natural textures and natural materials. We have long been accustomed to the unification of kitchen spaces with a dining area, and in recent years, the kitchen claim to participate in the interior of the living room. And this trend continues to gain momentum. In this review, you can already find kitchens equipped with full-fledged storage systems, shelves for books and a TV-area. Surprisingly, this same trend has the opposite effect, when the kitchen does not expand to integrate into the common space, but, on the contrary, is minimized, turns into a small elegant high-tech island with luxurious finishes, which has all the necessary functions to decorate the living room space like a strange sculpture or laconic art object.

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