Rastelli Makio Hasuike & Co Kitchen
July 14, 2022
The new Makio Hasuike & Co kitchen for Rastelli carries the scent of wood and recalls the open-air walks, essential to find energies at the end of a challenging day.
The reflection from which Makio Hasuike’s project was born lies in the origins of Japanese culture, and in the same awareness of going beyond the conventional thought through which we are accustomed to identify the domestic dimension. The necessity of an imaginary return to nature and to some of its primary ingredient, as the aromas, the light and the fresh air transformed the kitchen in a place of inspiration and spur to rediscover its own wellness, individual and shared, fulfilling the primary function of a well-being place, of mental balance and serenity, according to Hasuike.
The research path of the Japanese-born architect, strong and aware of the therapeutic importance of the wood, decontextualizes and reinterprets walking into nature – also pictured by the ideogram Shinrin-yoku – as a manifestation of the desire to rediscover a wellness corner within the house. The regenerative effect of a walk in contact with nature, in Bosco philosophy, can be recreated with the furnishings to define this new dimension of the domestic living.
The kitchen architecture is characterized by three elements: a horizontal and a vertical full volume and a sort of vertical backstage made of strips, integrated into the suffused lighting effect. The presence of traditional base cabinets, of tall units with pocket doors and open shelves with sliding panels, has been designed in every detail to enhance the clean aesthetic and the unforced perception of balance between form and matter.
In Hasuike’s wood, nature also gives the ingredients to cook: plants, roots and medicinal herbs find their own place inside the shelves and the storage units hidden by the open shelf with sliding doors. The most important working area of Bosco kitchen presents an induction hob and a sink with retractable tap. The worktop is in silver gray Corian, while the base cabinets handles are in solid wood and eucalyptus veneered.
Bosco, created and designed ad hoc for Rastelli, carries with it the first studies and the primeval inspiration of industrial design, re-proposed in a completely innovative and versatile way.
The emotional aspect, the forest air, the accuracy and attention to the sincerest moments of our every-day living, find a moment of well-deserved comfort in this last creation designed by Hasuike. A livable space in which it is possible to turn on the “relax” button – at least metaphorically – to pause-press mind and soul, so used to sustain the external influences of every day. The result is a timeless space, suitable for any environment: the contrast between solidity and lightness, the dichotomy of light and darkness, tells of a new vision in which being happy with ourselves and the others is possible.