The kitchen as a laboratory for new ways of living

Long confined to its primary function, the kitchen has today become one of the most important rooms in the home. A space for preparing food, a place for sharing, an occasional office, a stage for entertaining or even an everyday refuge, it now concentrates multiple uses that are profoundly reshaping its design. Open onto the other living spaces, more flexible, more personalised and ever more technological, it is establishing itself as a genuine laboratory for new ways of living. This development is accompanied by major innovations. Connected appliances, artificial intelligence, ever more intuitive opening systems, sustainable materials and the discreet integration of technologies are transforming the user experience while renewing the role of designers, fit-out specialists and manufacturers. More than ever, the kitchen is becoming a favoured field of expression where design, technical performance and quality of life meet. Through this special report, “l'Agenceur” proposes to explore the many facets of this transformation, by giving a voice to the manufacturers, experts and designers who are today imagining the kitchens of tomorrow.