Tom Dixon and Caesarstone’s ICE kitchen
The quartz-surfaces manufacturer Caesarstone and the British designer Tom Dixon have succeeded in crafting a cool-looking kitchen that truly evokes the cold. Called ICE, it is the first of four kitchens inspired by the elements – water, earth, air, and fire – that the company plans to unveil over this year. For inspiration, Dixon looked to Canada’s frozen lakes and the jagged pieces left by the icebreakers. Triangular prisms in different sizes and heights help create the aesthetic, forming surfaces, stools and serving stations.
“(Here) we propose a food preparation and consumption space, which draws on the analogy of the kitchen as an alchemist’s laboratory where raw materials are transformed into treasure through the elemental process of freezing, melting, shaving and cooking with ice,” says Dixon. “Where the contemporary kitchen seeks to hide the activities behind a series of minimal blocks, here we expose the chopping, the steaming, the freezing, the scouring and the disposal of waste in all its active glory.”