Hølte opens Hackney design studio for customising IKEA kitchens

Hølte, an organization that gives bespoke fronts for IKEA kitchens, has unveiled a brand new design studio and showroom in London’s Hackney.

Studio founders Tom and Fi Ginnett have mixed daring colors and geometric varieties with easy, well-crafted particulars within the inside of their new workspace, situated on Broadway Market in east London.

It showcases Hølte’s vary of hand-finished cupboard fronts, handles and worktops, nevertheless it additionally capabilities as an area the place the designers can meet shoppers and host occasions, like design workshops or wine tasting.

“Above all, we wished it to really feel open, relaxed, welcoming and about as removed from a typical high-street kitchen showroom as potential,” defined Fi.

“We wished every thing to have a objective and be sure that nothing was purely for show,” she advised Dezeen.

“The working kitchen and massive eating desk are used day-to-day for crew lunches and consumer conferences, however are additionally there for use for pop-ups, supper golf equipment and different occasions.”

Hølte is one among a number of new firms that supply customized fronts for IKEA’s modular Metod kitchen carcasses, together with extra well-known examples like Danish model Reform and Swedish studio Superfront.

Tom and Fi – who began their careers in structure and style, respectively – launched Hølte as a spin-off of their extra typical kitchen design enterprise, Witlof.

“Hølte’s type is a continuation of the design language that has advanced organically via our expertise designing bespoke kitchens as Witlof,” stated Fi.

“It’s assured and forward-thinking with a respect for conventional strategies and processes.”

Relatively than dividing the studio up into completely different zones, the area takes the type of a single massive kitchen and eating area, regardless that it showcases quite a lot of completely different fronts, handles and surfaces.

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Black outlines and insets add definition to completely different models, whereas a vibrant blue wall creates a colour-blocking impact with two units of cupboards.

Different particulars embody a tiled backdrop offset with blue grouting, a wine rack and a pantry cabinet. These are paired with lighting by London studio Hand & Eye and a placing terrazzo-like floor of recycled marble by Altrock.

“The studio is a celebration of all of the issues we love: stunning supplies, color and craftsmanship,” stated Fi.

“We selected black edges to border the boldly colored doorways, making a graphic type which is accentuated by the grid of the tiled splashback,” she continued.

“Pairing this with fairly conventional and opulent actual wooden veneers added character to the area, and collaborations with Altrock and Hand & Eye lighting added texture and launched stunning and long-lasting supplies, similar to marble and terracotta.”

Behind the massive eating desk, a session space creates an area for one-to-one conversations, with a glass-block wall as a backdrop.

Various designers have hacked IKEA kitchens, the most recent being David Thulstrup, Word Design Studio and Muller Van Severen who teamed up with Danish model Reform to place their very own spin on the Swedish firm’s standard-issue kitchens.

Danish structure studios BIG, Norm and Henning Larsen additionally took up the problem and got here up with a sequence of pared-back impartial kitchen models.

Pictures is by Nicholas Worley.