From April 16 to 21, 2024, the 64th Milan International Home Furnishing Exhibition and Milan Design Week, known as the "Oscar" event of world furniture design, was held in Milan, Italy.
Founded in 1961, the Milan International Home Furnishing Show is held every year. Since its inception, the exhibition has been constantly enriching the content of the exhibition, and has become the vane of global home design, bringing together the latest design boutiques and top brands in furniture, kitchen appliances, bathroom and other industries, attracting many professional designers, traders, buyers and entrepreneurs from all over the world.
In this grand exhibition, the exhibits in the EuroCucina/FTK kitchen appliances exhibition area have the most cutting-edge technology and design, including ovens, refrigerators, smoke cookers, microwave ovens, etc., attracting domestic enterprises to exchange and learn.
The author came to the exhibition site in person to bring many highlights of the design of European kitchen appliances.
EuroCucina/FTK-Technology For the Kitchen
在EuroCucina/FTK厨电展区,BOSCH,SMEG,ASKO,SIEMENS,ABIMIS,BEKO,FYLGOR,LG,LUBE,SAMSUNG以及海尔均亮相。
At the ASKO booth, you can see the all-stainless steel design dishwasher that guarantees 96 hours of storage space for dishes and is antibacterial and fresh, and the slide rails have been tested for 120,000 times, making them sturdy and durable. Importantly, this dishwasher is equipped with two spray arms, and a set of spray arms in the center of the fuselage, so that the upper and lower parts of the dishwasher can be washed in separate areas and the washing effect is better.
ASKO dishwasher
Ruan Huaping, director of the product development headquarters of Robam Appliances, concluded that European kitchen appliances show four trends.
First, the comprehensive popularization of intelligence. After years of accumulation, almost all brands of kitchen appliances have launched new products with networking and intelligent functions.
Ruan Huaping, Director of the Product Development Headquarters of Robam Appliances
Smart signage on the oven
Second, the trend of kitchen appliance cabinet integration is expanding to more categories, and more scenes of various overall home decoration appears, and at the same time, there are more appearance designs that integrate multi-category embedded products.
Concealed European-style range hood
The third is more applications of new materials for appearance. In the Milan Furniture Fair, the CMF integration design concept has become richer, with the appearance design of metal themes such as stainless steel and the panel embedding of wood decoration patterns, so that the appearance of kitchen appliances has a new aesthetic route.
The 140-year-old company specializes in kitchen appliances, and the Italian high-end kitchen appliance brand Bertazzoni presented a metal-themed package made of stainless steel. It can be seen that whether it is a gas stove or a built-in oven, it is all designed with stainless steel panels, focusing on metallic feeling, which is also one of the current trends that have attracted much attention.
Bertazzoni灶
Bertazzoni嵌入式烤箱
At the SMEG booth, we saw products with very different design styles, from bright colors in previous years to matte designs across the entire line this year.
Cooktop countertops with wood trim
Fourth, multi-category integrated design is widely adopted. For example, OFFCINEGULLO brings a European-style "integrated cooking center", which focuses on luxury while integrating the cooktop, oven and range hood all on the island.
ABIMIS brings an integrated induction cooker with a fully mirrored panel and embedded in the lower exhaust hood hole, which is attracting attention.
ABIMIS mirror-integrated induction cooktop
The Italian brand FULGOR presented a product designed to integrate a drawer with an oven
Under the trend of intelligence, integration, integration and the application of new materials, kitchen appliances in the European market have shown obvious trend changes, while traditional products such as dishwashers can still make progress in scientific and technological innovation. These are all for Chinese kitchen appliance companies to open up the European market, learn from their own scientific and technological innovation to generate value.
Text/Gorrant International Convention and Exhibition Gao Yang