It’s possible to create a free-standing kitchen by placing a handful of modules together or create a linear system made up of several modules on which a single top can be added.
The size of the various modules is classified in a similar way to clothing, starting from S (60cm wide) and up to XXL (140cm). The depth of the top is 65cm.
The minds behind Very Simple Kitchen – Riccardo Randi
Founded by Bologna-based designer Riccardo Randi, he started the company after studying at IED Milano and working on an outdoor kitchen prototype as part of his degree in product design.
Inspired by this experience, he continued to experiment at home, encouraged by the fact that the place he had moved into and then called home actually didn’t have a kitchen.
Randi wanted to create a very simple, modular, and flexible kitchen, his starting point being a workbench that could be adapted to suit various requirements.
Riccardo Randi, founder of Very Simple Kitchen, has developed a flexible approach to kitchens, which is as transitory as it is stylish
In 2016, he made his first prototype that would later become the Very Simple Kitchen, which a year later he began manufacturing in Italy and selling to the public.
Today, the team consists of three people: himself, Federico Poluzzi, and Maria Lubinu.
Federico is a freelance interior designer who has collaborated with various architecture studios in Bologna and specializes in historical interior restoration.
Meanwhile, Maria studies Civil Engineering and is a freelance photographer. In addition to these three, the company relies on a network of local artisans and specialists in sheet metal, a key component in their stainless steel kitchen designs.
Collaborating with local craftsmen allows Very Simple Kitchen to keep welding down to a minimum, combining lightweight 100% stainless steel modules obtained using laser cutting and sheet bending technologies.
The profiles are then joined with stainless steel bolts.
Manufactured in Italy, these modules can be personalized with worktops, available in treated birch plywood, quartz, and stainless steel as well as porcelain stoneware, ‘Venetian’, Fenix and concrete.
Manufactured in Italy, Very Simple Kitchen’s modules can be personalized both in color and with worktops of different materials
There are various types of Very Simple Kitchen units, from door and drawer boxes to sinks and appliances.
These are all available in a choice of chromatic pigments, tailor-made, thanks to research carried out over the years, guaranteeing an unlimited colour palette.
These colours are applied using an industrial powder coating process, which makes the most hardwearing result possible on metal components.
Style & Aesthetics – Minimalism, straight lights and Italian industrialism
The project is inspired by the classic industrial workbench from which it borrows stylistic direction.
The aesthetic result is sharp and precise, characterised by the minimalist straight lines of Italy’s industrial heritage.
Simple forms with careful attention are the canvas to materials, finishings and above all, colour.
Very Simple Kitchen is inspired by the classic industrial workbench from which it borrows stylistic direction
Online Configurator
As well as developing a simple process of putting the product together, Very Simple Kitchen wanted to create an easy shopping experience.
In addition to the product, it has created an online configurator where customers can simply navigate the world of kitchens, piecing together the units they want from home and requesting a quote.
Just this year, an improved version of the online configurator launched making it easier to envision the final product by combining the desired colour and worktop.
Very Simple Kitchen created an online configurator that makes it easier for customers to piece together the units they want, combine the color and worktop, and envision the final product
Design memento – A new, nomadic generation of dwellers
The younger, more nomadic generation of today are willing to move from one city to another in search of new opportunities rather than the perfect home.
Where they are also design lovers, interested in culture, and very often passionate about food, modular solutions to essential elements of domestic living are perfectly targeted, especially when they are easy to take apart and take with you wherever you go.
Very Simple Kitchen is interesting in the way it shines a light both on new living habits and consumer values.
The aesthetic result of Very Simple Kitchen is sharp and precise, characterized by the minimalist straight lines of Italy’s industrial heritage
The writer’s comment – A kitchen revival is right up my street
In recent years there has been a minimizing of space dedicated to our culinary passions, which might explain the increase we’ve seen when it comes to our ordering-in proclivities.
The fact is, where people have prioritised work and social activity outside of the home, our relationship with domestic spaces like the kitchen have suffered.
Yet in recent months, the room we have to use to cook, bake or just be with our loved ones has been given more importance, as a result of a global pandemic and the social restrictions that have ensued.
Very Simple Kitchen reinvents kitchen spaces by creating infinite possibilities that can be taken anywhere
Let’s just say this – I was a believer in beautiful and functional kitchens long before I was forced to pretty much live in one for 6 entire months.
Therefore, I truly believe in a nomadic approach that allows me to take my kitchen with me anywhere when it’s finally possible to actually go somewhere else…
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A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen
A flexible system of modular units is the transitory solution for today’s dynamic dweller, designed and locally produced by the Italian company Very Simple Kitchen