Indoor kitchens we have built — page 4

A textured black wall serves as backdrop, and the composition draws its precise graphic upon it: walnut volumes with flame-figured grain — the bases, the high shelf, the column — and a white island whose porcelain stoneware top integrates the working zone. A sphere chandelier, a cloud of crystals, is the single decorative concession; a window at the back opens a sliver of landscape. Induction hob, oven and sink complete the equipment with minimal discretion. This is the linear, modern kitchen for those who love intimate rooms and eloquent surfaces: walnut that vibrates in the light, white that rests, black that frames. The stoneware top guarantees daily service without aesthetic compromise. It is the contemporary register of Michelessi indoor kitchens: a wooden structure, calibrated proportions, artisan craftsmanship in the details — and minimalism understood as it should be: not poverty, but choice.

The pearl grey of the framed doors sets the composition's gentle tone: bases and columns run along the walls with the refrigerator built in and the oven in its place, while the central island carries the burners set into its pale top and a small counter for the stools. Precious details fire the scene: the golden mixer over the integrated sink, suspended copper lamps, burnished handles. Light cladding behind the cooking zone and a shelf of ceramics complete the contemporary classic register. This is the kitchen that reassures at first glance: familiar proportions, considered materials, full equipment. Classic style, to avoid gathering dust, demands impeccable execution: precise frames, uniform lacquers, details that shine exactly where they should. It is the métier Michelessi brings to its made-to-measure indoor kitchens: a wooden structure and artisan craftsmanship, for a tradition that stays young. Gold on a pearl ground: tradition, well dressed, does not age.

Track lights carve the scene as in a theatre: a pale island carries the integrated sink and a lateral glass shelf — a thin, suspended plane that extends the counter with lightness — while stools with brown seats line up in waiting. Behind, bronze-profiled vitrines rise backlit with their glasses on show, beside white columns housing black ovens. A polished floor doubles every light. Fully equipped, this is a kitchen that lives well in the evening hours: reflective materials in careful doses, warm transparencies, porcelain stoneware surfaces ready for service. The glass shelf is the detail to remember: invisible fixings, calibrated thicknesses, elegance without weight. It is the bespoke signature of Michelessi indoor kitchens: a wooden structure, technique concealed, craftsmanship throughout — and the stage, every evening, ready to light up. When night falls, this kitchen does not switch off: it simply makes its entrance.

The project plays the two-tone card: petrol blue bases with slender handles, cream wall units with satin-glass vitrines, and corner shelves that curve gently at the ends of the composition — a detail from another era that softens the geometry. The pale counter carries the sink and the cooking zone beneath a steel hood; bowls on the worktop and a soft light complete the domestic register. With cabinets and doors organising every compartment, the kitchen is fully equipped and ready for family life. This is classic style revisited with a feeling for colour: blue that gives character, cream that welcomes. The wooden structure ensures the curved corners and framed doors stay precise through the years: these are the places where true joinery shows. It is the quality of Michelessi indoor kitchens: made to measure, handcrafted in Italy, and a chromatic balance that puts you at ease at once.

The contrast is declared and delicious: black lacquered doors with precise frames and glass-fronted wall units frame a great white farmhouse sink — the generous basin projecting from the cabinet as in the houses of another age — served by a black flexible tap, modern and quick as a professional tool. A pale marble top spreads its light over the dark bases; white herringbone cladding rises softly on the walls, and golden handle details warm the black. This is the meeting of rural memory and contemporary rigour: each element seems chosen to make the other shine. The marble counter, cut to measure with the basin set in to perfection, holds the registers together with its natural authority. This is the hand of Michelessi: Italian craftsmanship in the stonework and in the lacquered structure — for a kitchen that plays in black and white, and wins.

Straight-grained pale wood dresses the whole composition — the central island, the columns with twin ovens, a suspended sideboard washed in lilac light — and steel worktops answer with their professional register: the sink welded flush into the metal surface, the cooking zone served by a suspended hood, clean edges that speak of working kitchens. A pale floor keeps the luminosity high; a design waste bin beside the island winks at practicality. Fully equipped, this is the kitchen for those who cook seriously and want surfaces without compromise: steel sanitises in a single gesture, bears scorching pans, ages with honour. The wood, all around, restores the domestic warmth steel alone would not give. It is the functional balance of Michelessi indoor kitchens: a wooden structure, materials chosen for the craft, made in Italy down to the joints — and the daily satisfaction of working on counters that never back down.

A crystal chandelier lights the scene above the window, and the kitchen spreads its dark dove-grey tones with the calm of elegant houses: framed doors, a matching mantel hood, decorated tile cladding drawing the wall behind the great steel range with its professional burners. A veined marble top runs along the counters to the white farmhouse sink, served by a classic mixer. Complete with range and hood, this is a kitchen that joins working substance to cultivated taste: dusty tones, decorated ceramic, veined stone cut to measure. The marble counter is the meeting point of beauty and service: it resists, welcomes, ennobles. Its refined edges and cut-outs carry the hand of Michelessi — artisan craftsmanship in stone, for indoor kitchens that know how to receive guests, and feed them properly, with eight burners' worth of arguments.

A peninsula in driftwood-toned timber — that warm grey of wood worked by the sea — advances into the room and welcomes two leather stools beneath a great white dome lamp. The Laminam top runs thin and practical, integrating the sink; behind, the white composition arrays columns with ovens, wall units and the induction cooking zone. Doors and drawers organise every centimetre; a pale stone floor spreads the light. Fully equipped, this is the kitchen of everyday balance: white that orders, grey wood that softens, Laminam that works without complaint. The peninsula is the social centre of gravity: breakfasts, homework, evening talk. It is the signature project of Michelessi indoor kitchens: a wooden structure, technical surfaces chosen with judgement, Italian craftsmanship in the details — and home life finding its favourite place at once. A peninsula that instantly becomes the best seat in the house: try it and see.

A stone-effect top rests on two trestles of solid timber, a matching bench at its side: this is the island-table of a kitchen with the flavour of a contemporary refuge, where the porcelain stoneware surface — sink integrated — meets exposed carpentry as in an atelier. Behind, wooden columns with brown-figured grain house the oven and the pantry; black lamps descend on cue, and the glazing brings the garden into the scene. Fully equipped, this is a kitchen that celebrates construction itself: no plinths to conceal, no closed volumes — the legs are visible, and they are handsome. The contrast of technical stone and structural wood is its language: honest, warm, contemporary. It is the kind of idea that true made-to-measure turns into solid reality: Michelessi indoor kitchens, with Italian craftsmanship unafraid to show — with pride — how things are made.

The lines are elegant and the colour knows it: uniform grey doors, crossed by golden profiles that draw the handles and frames, meet a veined travertine counter — pale stone with a moving figure that also clads the wall behind the burners, as one single mineral gesture. Twin ovens sit in their column, the sink works beneath a suspended brass bulb, and yellow stools light the counter with their note of sun. Complete with oven, sink and range, this is a classic kitchen of contemporary proportions: few elements, all of them right. Veined travertine is the silent protagonist: Roman stone, warm and luminous, worked to measure in counters and cladding with the care its history deserves. This is the Michelessi métier: craftsmanship that sets gold against stone without ever sliding into excess — because true elegance is known by its restraint. The yellow stools confirm it: elegance, now and then, also knows how to smile.

The light is that of the blue hour, when the kitchen glows with warm LEDs: solid wood columns with vertical slats set their material rhythm along the wall, and a black porcelain stoneware counter runs beneath the strip of light, carrying the integrated sink and its dark mixer. Tomatoes on the counter, bottles beside the stove: daily life enters the scene without posing. Doors organise the compartments with the discretion of well-considered design. This is the kitchen of slow evenings: materials that absorb the light and give it back softened, surfaces that invite unhurried cooking. The black stoneware works tirelessly; the solid wood warms every reflection. It is the balance of technique and atmosphere that Michelessi builds to measure in its indoor kitchens: a wooden structure, Italian craftsmanship, and that well-designed half-light that turns an ordinary Tuesday dinner into a small ritual. In the evening, LEDs aglow, even tidying up becomes an almost meditative gesture.

The composition alternates stone grey and pale oak with a sure rhythm: dark columns house the twin ovens, wooden wall units lighten the wall, and at the centre a Laminam island stretches its top into an adjoining table, where dark poufs wait for breakfast. Black lamps descend in a cluster; a ribbon window brings light onto hob and sink. Complete with oven, hob and sink, this is a kitchen that thinks horizontally: long surfaces, distributed functions, conviviality drawn into the design itself. Laminam on top and doors guarantees uniformity and resistance — the technical material that serves the project without limiting it. The lacquered wooden structure keeps the volumes true. It is the practical contemporary of Michelessi indoor kitchens: made to measure in its proportions, craftsmanship in its joints, and an island that never divides — it unites, from the morning coffee to the last conversation. An island that invites you to linger: the poufs, not by chance, are already there.

The island is a small pantry in plain sight: a plate rack with its dishes aligned, a bottle rack with wooden lozenges, drawers with classic handles — and at its head a solid wood bar table, a generous block where wooden stools gather for breakfast. A travertine top crowns the grey-blue base with its pale stone; around it, the white kitchen works with column ovens and a discreet hood. This is the classic kitchen of real homes: everything within reach of hand and eye, beauty born of use rather than pose. The travertine counter, cut to measure, adds the mineral nobility the wood was asking for; the solid timber of the table brings the thickness that invites you to lean in. It is the balance of Michelessi indoor kitchens: Italian craftsmanship, materials that age well, and an island that is at once pantry, workbench and heart of the home.

Three blown-glass lamps descend over the island like transparent bells: beneath them, a white travertine top spreads its luminous stone and receives the ceramic basin that projects from the pale wooden volume — the sink integrated into the counter, a steel mixer at its service. Black stools line the bar; behind, dark grey bases and pale boiserie with a long hood compose the working wall with oven and burners. An oak floor warms the scene. This is the contemporary that does not forget its memory: the farmhouse basin within a modern design, Roman stone above present-day joinery. The white travertine, cut to measure with the basin set in to perfection, is the bridge between the eras — the Michelessi speciality, Italian craftsmanship in stone. And the effect, beneath those bells of glass, is that of things done right: timeless. The white basin, under that suspended glass, seems to have been waiting forever for your hands.

Four red stools fire the scene like a row of poppies: they gather at the oak bar table joined to the white island, beneath the travertine top that crowns the working zone with its pale stone. Around them, the grey lacquered kitchen arrays glass-fronted wall units, a stainless refrigerator, the induction hob and the oven; the sink works on the island, doors keep everything in order. And on the wooden bench, a small white dog watches the scene: definitive proof that this is a happy house. This is the kitchen of a real family — bright colours, honest materials, complete functions — built with the seriousness that daily life demands. The travertine counter, cut to measure, adds the mineral substance; the wooden structure bears the rest. It is Michelessi made-to-measure: craftsmanship, careful details, and the right space for everyone. Dog included. Bright colours, serious materials: a happy home is built exactly like this.

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 scene has the character of a signature exhibition: matte black volumes in solid wood stand beside copper-toned panels with tactile surfaces, and the central island repeats the dialogue with its open compartments lined in warm metal. Hob, oven and sink complete the working equipment; a wall screen and a column bookcase to the side tell of the contemporary domestic setting. Raking light fires the textures: black that absorbs, copper that returns. This is a project for those who love decisive interiors: few colours, much material, clean geometry. The solid wood structure guarantees that this aesthetic force rests on true foundations: thicknesses, joints, hardware equal to the task. It is the bold register of Michelessi indoor kitchens: made to measure in design and in character, with Italian craftsmanship that can build even the theatre — provided that, every evening, one can truly cook in it. Theatre, yes, but with foundations: every volume carries the stage and the everyday together.

The exposed brick wall climbs with the staircase and tells the building's story; the kitchen answers with its mineral elegance: a counter and splashbacks in veined travertine — pale stone that also clads the working wall with its moving figure — framed by handleless dove-grey doors. Brass globe lamps descend on cue; an island with the sink completes the working zone, and a window at the back brings in the day. This is the elegant design the project declares: few materials, all of them true, orchestrated with calm. Stone splashbacks are the connoisseur's detail: they protect the walls and turn function into decoration, veining rising vertical like water against the current. It is the bespoke stonework Michelessi executes with the artisan craftsmanship of always: travertine treated as protagonist, the brickwork respected as a good neighbour — and the balance between them making all the difference.

The cloud chandelier — dozens of crystal stems — bursts silently above the island and signs the scene: below, a white porcelain stoneware top runs clean with the induction hob built in, carried by walnut volumes with flame-figured grain. Walnut columns with twin ovens, suspended wall units, the green of plants against dark walls: every element plays the contrast between warm wood and candid surfaces. Oven and sink complete the equipment. This is scenographic modern that stays liveable: true materials, clear geometry, and a single theatrical gesture — that chandelier — to light it all. The white stoneware top guarantees spotless daily service; the structure and doors in wood bring joinery of substance. It is the formula of Michelessi indoor kitchens: made to measure, handcrafted in Italy, and just the right dose of wonder overhead.

Columns of tactile bronze-toned surfaces rise like walls of ancient metal, housing the twin ovens and the pantry; before them, a white island with a stoneware top spreads its light, and three grey velvet stools on golden frames gather round with the elegance of a boutique hotel. A polished marble-effect floor doubles the reflections; flowers on the island complete the picture. This is contemporary luxury that knows its measure: deep textures, warm metals, practical surfaces where they are needed. Fully equipped, the kitchen works beneath its elegance without letting it show: the stoneware top bears the everyday, the lacquered wooden structure keeps the volumes exact. Bronze-effect finishes ask for well-considered light to give their best — and here they receive it. It is the refined face of Michelessi indoor kitchens: made to measure, craftsmanship throughout, and a counter where the velvet invites you to stay well past the coffee.