Indoor kitchens we have built — page 3

The cornflower-blue island is the kitchen's gentle heart: a base with framed panels carries a white top where lemons in a bowl fire the scene, and two black lanterns descend from the ceiling to frame it. Around it, the white composition arrays columns with oven and microwave, a wine cabinet, glass-fronted wall units and a steel hood above the professional range. A dark timber floor and a striped rug complete the flavour of a cultivated American home. Doors and handles are the vocabulary of this style: precise frames, measured knobs, familiar proportions. It is the kitchen that welcomes at first glance and convinces at the second, when the drawers open and the quality of the build makes itself felt. The wooden structure brings the solidity; made-to-measure fits it all to the real space. This is the classic according to Michelessi: indoor kitchens with artisan craftsmanship — and a light blue island that lifts the mood.

Lamps of black metal geometry descend like small suspended sculptures: beneath them, the island carries a veined travertine top that falls in a waterfall along its flank — pale stone, crossed by grey waves, signing the project with its natural elegance. Glossy white bases, a wooden niche with wall units, black-framed glazing that separates without closing: every element keeps to the register of elegant white design the project declares. A dark table carries the conviviality onward beside the kitchen, complete with sink and every appliance. This is the luminous contemporary of houses that love formal purity but will not give up true material: travertine, worked to measure with joints executed to the letter, gives the white its depth. This is the hand of Michelessi in stone: Italian craftsmanship that turns an island into a signed piece — to be used, every day, without ceremony.

The composition works in horizontal bands: a matte black wall with built-in ovens, a band of oak wall units crossing it like a warm ribbon, and a glossy dark splashback reflecting the light of the ceiling tracks. Before it, a white island carries a glossy stoneware top with central sink, and an oak counter draws up beside it, gathering black stools. A golden timber floor keeps the whole scene warm. Fully equipped, this is a kitchen that proves black can be welcoming: give it the right wood and a well-considered light. The glossy stoneware top works without fear; the lacquered wooden structure guarantees the perfect alignments the banded design demands. It is the mature contemporary of Michelessi indoor kitchens: made to measure, Italian craftsmanship — and oak crossing the black like a ray of sun at day's end.

The composition runs long and low like a well-organised night: matte black Laminam doors open into niches lit with warm light — open compartments where chosen objects live as in small vitrines — and the top continues uniform with the sink set flush within it. A column at the back alternates solids and voids; the pale floor reflects just enough. This is nocturnal minimalism in its most cultivated execution: black as backdrop, light as material, Laminam as the guarantee that all this elegance withstands real life — scratches, heat and hurry included. Joints between dark surfaces admit no error: every deviation would flash like lightning. It is the precision Michelessi brings to its made-to-measure indoor kitchens: a lacquered wooden structure, Italian craftsmanship, and the courage of black — repaid, every evening, by the beauty of the whole.

A striped runner leads the way to the heart of the kitchen: the ocean-blue island with its white polished stoneware worktop, attended by two blown-glass pendants that descend like bubbles caught mid-air. Around it, the white classical composition deploys its columns, framed wall units, a discreet hood and the range with its burners; the dark wood floor lends depth, and the window at the far end lets in the day. Complete with sink and hob, this is the kitchen that misses not a single detail of its genre: white that brings order, blue that signs the work, light that caresses. The classical style demands precise execution — frames, lacquers, alignments — and the lacquered wood structure guarantees it for years to come. Polished stoneware surfaces add modern practicality to traditional form. This is the recipe of Michelessi indoor kitchens: bespoke, pure Italian craftsmanship, and a blue island that instantly becomes the centre of every conversation.

The deep sage of the framed doors gives the kitchen a botanical elegance: columns with illuminated glass cabinets, a grand canopy above the cooking zone, and the veined travertine worktop running across island and perimeter, rising into a splashback that protects the walls with the same stone. The wine cellar sits recessed in view, the candid refrigerator stands guard at the back, and the wooden table with straw-seated chairs completes the domestic picture. Glass pendants descend on cue above the island. With every appliance aboard, this is tradition brought up to date: full colour, true stone, complete function. The veined travertine — worktop and splashback cut to measure — is the mineral thread stitching the project together: the hand of the Michelessi workshop, stonework made in Italy. Sage does the rest: a colour that smells of good herbs, and ages better than most fashions. A green of good herbs and a stone of history: a perfect accord.

The old wooden ladder, propped at the centre of the scene, is the detail that tells the story: here one works, arranges, lives. Around it, the sky-grey lacquered kitchen spreads its handleless doors beneath the veined marble worktop, which rises into the wall top with its warm pattern of brown veining; LED-lit wall units illuminate the working zone, and the window brings in the day. Complete with appliances, this is a kitchen of understated elegance: powdery tones, true stone, considered light. The veined marble — worktop and cladding cut to measure — is the material heart of the project: continuity between horizontal and vertical demands matched slabs and exact joints, the craft the Michelessi workshop has always exercised. And the ladder, in the end, is a wish: may this kitchen always be a happy building site, of cakes and of plans. And when the ladder returns to the cellar, the kitchen will remain: ready, luminous, yours.

The peninsula advances in the foreground with its top in Nero Africa granite: a deep surface, polished to a mirror, reflecting the knife block and the lights of the room like water at night. The induction hob integrates almost invisibly; behind, the equipped wall lines up the built-in appliances — ovens, microwave, the full battery of steel — and the roller serving hatch connecting the kitchen to the next room, a practical gesture from another age, revisited. Pale wall units and a glass splashback keep the scene luminous, because black alone is not enough: it must be accompanied. Nero Africa granite is among the best-loved stones for kitchen counters: extremely hard, elegant, tireless. Michelessi's bespoke workmanship exalts its lustre with meticulous finishing and exact recesses, in the tradition of Italian craftsmanship: a peninsula like this works every day, and never stops being beautiful.

The camera settles on a corner of perfect everyday life: framed doors in pale wood, gently drawn, framing the dark stone-effect splashback where a steel rail holds the ladles like notes on a stave. Above, cookbooks lean out from the wall unit; below, a white bowl of fruit brightens the dark worktop like a small moon. It is the art of pairing that distinguishes a well-conceived indoor kitchen: the warmth of wood softening the mineral depth of the surfaces, light sliding gently between the two worlds. In Michelessi modular kitchens this dialogue between materials is built to measure, choosing finishes, splashbacks and worktops together with the designers, up to technical surfaces and marble handcrafted in Italy. Because a kitchen is never a single material: it is a conversation that has gone well. A pairing that lives well in daylight, and even better in the soft light of evening.

The scene is almost theatrical: on a pale, matte worktop, the black basin opens like a decisive cut, and the squared mixer tap rises slender, black as well, with the clarity of a stroke of ink. The white, handleless base units let the contrast do the talking. Raking light brushes the surface and reveals its fine grain, while the dark wall behind closes the composition like a curtain. It is in details like this that an indoor kitchen stops being mere furniture and becomes a project: the choice of worktop material, the position of the basin, tapware as a signature. Michelessi accompanies that choice with the care of a house that has shaped marble and technical surfaces to measure for generations — a craft you recognise with your fingertips before your eyes. Come and touch it: some surfaces tell their story better under the hand than in photographs.

The dark slate-effect worktop stretches out its clouded surface, faintly crossed by variations of grey that recall a sky before rain; above, the black grid of the gas burners awaits the flame, while glass jars and decorated ceramics add the warmth of things used every day. Below, cream framed deep drawers with burnished arched handles bring a classic flavour that softens the worktop's mineral depth. It is a contrast that works like a well-matched duet: dark stone lending gravity, pale wood lending lightness. Michelessi indoor kitchens build these balances to measure, choosing with you the thickness of the worktop, the finish of the doors, the materials — from laminate to ceramic, from quartz to marble worked according to tradition. Because cooking is a daily rite: it deserves a stage worthy of it. Materials that respect one another: the simple rule behind every successful pairing.

Four blades of material cross in balance, from the deepest grey to the palest white, each with its own grain: one rough and mineral, one smooth and silent. In the background, a veined marble surface watches the scene as a master watches his students. This is the ritual of choosing the worktop, the most used and most loved element of any indoor kitchen: here hands rest, here dough is kneaded, vegetables are cut, days are recounted. Michelessi selects worktop materials with care — from laminates to ultra-compact surfaces such as Dekton, from ceramic to quartz to marble worked to measure — so that each offers honest performance, whatever the price. The difference is made by eye and hand: setting samples side by side, tilting them to the light, listening to them. It is the old method of Italian craftsmanship applied to the contemporary kitchen. The right worktop already exists: it is only a matter of recognising it, sample after sample, with the necessary calm.

Everything here speaks of domestic serenity: classic white cabinets with gentle mouldings, a warm wooden floor, and light entering at the windows to spread across worktops in white marble shaded with grey, where the veins pass as lightly as the shadows of clouds. The central island, with its dark basin and generous surfaces, organises the space without dividing it; the wall behind the burners carries the marble on in continuous cladding, and the steel of the refrigerator and hood adds its measured reflections. This is the kitchen that never goes out of fashion: true materials, right proportions, nothing forced. Grey-shaded white marble, worked to measure, is the secret of its light: a stone that illuminates without dazzling, offering a different drawing each day to those who look closely. Michelessi selects and finishes it with devoted care: for houses that intend to last, and to be loved for a long time.

The lens embraces the whole scene: the kitchen unfolds along two walls and into the corner, its travertine counters with walnut edging running continuous above the oat-coloured structure. Shaped upstands undulate against the walls, the two hoods — the larger over the built-in oven, the other over the cooking zone — converse from one side to the other, and walnut doors punctuate the base with their steady warmth. On the high shelves, amphorae and vases tell of a taste for authentic things. A masonry-style kitchen is a small worksite of precision: the stone must be cut and joined in place, the curves of the upstands rise one by one, the appliance recesses must marry the structure to the millimetre. It is the complete craft Michelessi brings to the bespoke working of Roman travertine: Italian craftsmanship that builds rather than assembles — delivering kitchens destined to be the centre of the home for generations.

The writing on the wall declares it with a wink: this is a kitchen made for dancing. And the atmosphere does invite: the dark volumes of the wooden structure absorb the light, the Laminam top spreads its thin, technical surface with induction hob and sink integrated, and the counter gathers leather stools where friends sit while someone cooks. Black bell lamps descend in a row, yellow flowers brighten the top, the double oven and built-in refrigerator work within the columns. This is the contemporary convivial kitchen: dark, enveloping, made for evenings that stretch long. Laminam — thin, high-performance ceramic — is the ideal partner for this way of living: it resists scratches, heat and stains without asking for attention. Michelessi's bespoke work integrates it into the structure with the care of Italian craftsmanship: because even a kitchen that dances needs solid foundations.

The glossy white lacquer of the doors gathers the light and returns it softly, multiplied by reflections: the kitchen bends in an L along the walls, with ordered wall units, LED lights beneath the modules and the steel sink in the working corner. The dark slatted wall at the back adds the material counterpoint the white was asking for; flowers on the counter and cake stands with sweets tell of a house that loves to entertain. This is the essential elegance of lacquered kitchens: clean surfaces, discreet handles, everything in its place and complete with appliances. Behind the apparent simplicity stands the quality of the wooden structure and the finishes: a well-drawn lacquer shows its worth over the years, when it goes on reflecting without shadows. It is the care Michelessi puts into its bespoke indoor kitchens, in the manner of Italian craftsmanship: the quiet luxury of things done well, which need never raise their voice to be remembered.

Glass walls frame the garden and the afternoon light comes in to warm the walnut of the island: richly grained solid wood carries a pale worktop where the induction zone works at the centre, served by three golden lamps descending like drops of honey. Beyond the island, the dining area with its upholstered chairs looks out to the green; to the right, a wooden wall holds the fireplace and television, stitching kitchen and living room into a single domestic narrative. Complete with oven and every appliance, this is the kitchen of houses that live wide open: you prepare dinner watching the lawn, you talk without walls in between. Solid walnut gives the substance; the light worktop, luminous and practical, keeps the scene serene. This is made-to-measure as Michelessi practises it in its indoor kitchens: proportions tailored to the real space, materials that warm, Italian craftsmanship in the details. And the garden, every evening, joins the table.

Black lighting tracks cross the ceiling and aim at the scene: a dark wall with a band of wood and built-in ovens, and before it a white island that sets the sink flush into its top and extends into an oak counter, where black stools line up for breakfast. A warm timber floor binds the two worlds — the technical and the convivial — while a potted plant adds its punctual green. Fully equipped, this is a kitchen that has chosen contrast as its language: black that organises, white that welcomes, wood that unites. Porcelain stoneware cladding keeps the surfaces ready for real life: resilient, uniform, easy. It is the contemporary formula of Michelessi indoor kitchens, built to measure with a wooden structure and Italian craftsmanship: design you can see, and substance — as always — that you feel beneath your hands.

The white island holds the centre with its integrated induction hob and handleless lines; behind it, the black wall opens into a wooden niche lit by LED — the warm stage where the worktop breathes between dark volumes. The ovens sit in their column, the sink works within the niche, and the complement of appliances is complete to the last detail. To the side, grey velvet dining chairs and a gilded mirror on the far wall tell of a home that tends every room with the same eye. Porcelain stoneware cladding keeps the surfaces uniform and ready for daily use. This is black and white softened by wood: the contemporary formula that does not age, built to measure on the wooden structure of Michelessi indoor kitchens. You recognise artisan craftsmanship in the transitions between materials: clean, precise, natural — as if no effort had been needed at all. And that is exactly where the effort hides.

White arched doorways frame the scene like theatre wings, and at the centre the great black island imposes its elegance: a base with framed panels, a pale marble top with the sink set flush within it, and a row of dark metal stools waiting for breakfast beneath steel bell lamps. Around it, the white kitchen rises to the ceiling with its columns, mantel hood and stainless refrigerator; a dark timber floor anchors the brightness of the whole, and a vase of green branches signs the counter. Fully equipped, this is the kitchen of important houses that have no wish to feel like museums: everything is beautiful, and everything is used. The island's marble, worked to measure with the sink cut in to perfection, is the project's heart of stone: Michelessi quality — Italian craftsmanship, selected slabs, exact finishes — placed each day at the service of the morning coffee.