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Poetica by Vuesse for Scavolini
Wood transforms the kitchen space with craftsmanship, technology, and continuity with the living area
Wood remains a star of kitchen design, confirming its role as a favourite to define a home’s atmosphere. Its presence introduces depth, in dialogue with materials like stone, glass, and metal, balancing tradition and modernity. New collections showcase systems that transcend the confines of the kitchen, integrating with the living area through central islands, floor-to-ceiling columns, and coordinated furnishings. Smooth, grooved, or reeded doors define volumes, while solid wood frames and veneers update classic language with contemporary proportions.
Alongside aesthetics, technology guarantees high performance: aluminium structures, stoneware countertops, and glass or metal details demonstrate how innovation and sustainability can coexist with natural materials. From Canaletto walnut to charcoal oak to the brightest finishes, the result is a kitchen that opens to the living area, transforming rooms into one coherent and functional space.
The central island defines the heart of the Bluna Legno kitchen by Binova, opening the space towards the living area and transforming the Coal Oak breakfast bar into a convivial gathering place, supported by H-shaped black metal legs. The Piasentina Stone Taupe flamed stoneware countertop integrates the induction hob and hood, combining functionality and materiality, while the large matching wall units reinforce visual continuity. The Bluna Legno kitchen can be paired with the homonymous living room collection – where wood, stone, and glass create design continuity, enhancing the fluidity and harmony between spaces.
The grooved wood front gives the neoLODGE kitchen by Nolte Küchen a strong material identity, adding depth and character to the space in a refined balance between classic and contemporary. The vertical veneer, available in Blackened Oak or Diamond Oak, creates an elegant and welcoming architectural effect, perfectly harmonising with glass cabinets, MatrixArt handle-less systems, and illuminated recessed handles.
Poetica is Scavolini’s furnishing system, designed by Vuesse, in which classic elements and modern proportions meet wood for a new definition of warmth and character. The 23-mm doors, with a thin solid Ash tree frame and a veneered central panel, give a new interpretation of tradition with a contemporary twist. The design also extends to the living room with dedicated furniture, featuring folding elements in two elegant colours: decorative Iron Grey and decorative Fog Grey.
Bluna Legno by Binova
neoLODGE by Nolte Küchen
Poetica by Vuesse for Scavolini
The Aliant Kitchen from Stosa’s Evolution collection is a true cooking lab where materials are blended with extreme elegance. The Sahara Oak breakfast bar introduces warmth and material character between Neolith® Wulong Slate base units and Canneté black glass columns. Wood defines the kitchen’s focal point, harmonising the surfaces and creating tactile and visual continuity, while metallic elements and three-dimensional textures enhance the material’s natural elegance.
The ME collection by Meson’s Cucine interprets the kitchen as a central architectural element, and enhances its material value in the wooden door version. Wood provides depth and visual continuity, interacting with the other spaces of the home and contributing to a contemporary design. In the ME_Slim version, the door extends vertically beyond the countertop to conceal the skirting, creating continuous, streamlined volumes. Alongside the exterior finishes, the aluminium structure represents the technical heart of the project: lightweight and solid, rigid and moisture-resistant, it guarantees durability and full recyclability, combining precision in construction and sustainability.
Opale, designed by Giorgio Ragazzini for Bamax, is a versatile kitchen that adapts to different spaces with an island or peninsula, extending its style and custom-made furnishing solutions to the living room as well. The reeded Canaletto walnut door – natural or paired with pops of colour on lacquered surfaces – defines its identity, combining craftsmanship and technology in a design with soft, sinuous lines.
Aliant Kitchen by Stosa
ME Collection by Meson’s Cucine
Opale by Giorgio Ragazzini for Bamax
17 February 2026
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