Japandi style kitchens? North or East? Why decide when you can have both things thanks to the Japandi life trend. As the name implies, Japandi combines elements of Japanese and Scandinavian design. Because despite the great distance, both decoration styles have something important in common: a strong connection with nature. And in the case of Japandi, this is reflected above all in the use of materials, so that the prominence lies in natural raw materials such as stone, paper or wood. We show you seven Japandi style kitchens in which the mixture of cultures and styles has been especially successful.
1. Wood, Hygge and ceramics
Although the Danish design study Force Majeure usually renounces the tiles in the kitchen, they are actually the protagonists of this renewed mansion of Copenhagen. The relief of ceramic green ceramics arranged vertically gives a new dimension to the wall of the background and skillfully hides the extractor bell. The delicate color provides freshness and lightness to the room and, at the same time, harmonizes with the lacquered oak of the cabinets and the soil of clear planks. Design objects and Vintage Selected provide warmth and care.
2. Family Japandi Style Kitchen
Together with the Kök Kök kitchen manufacturer, Emma Bernhards combined Scandinavian simplicity with Japanese elegance to create the kitchen of her dreams in modern Japanese style in her home of the quiet Torekov, on the southwest coast of Sweden. To accentuate the three functional components of the “Line, Island and High Warden – chose an intense black that clearly contrasts with the luminous rest of the stay. The strict and monochrome structure of MDF fronts also visually and tactically contrasts with organic concrete soil textures and wall panels of the walls. And yet, despite the dominant contrasts, or perhaps due to them, the design of Emma Bernhard has a balanced effect of the own of the Japandi style kitchens.
3. Opulent marble and discreet oak
Upon entering this luminous wooden kitchen, which the interior designers of Framework Studio created for an Amsterdam family, one is debated between the two sides of the room, designed with the same art: on the one hand, the kitchen and the island, both of light oak and coated with white marble plates of relatively thick veins. The deliberately wide holes from the front of the island and the milling relief of some stone surfaces literate the weight of traditional materials. In front is the dining room, also covered with clear oak and adorned with numerous sculptural vases and small works of art. A work of art within Japandi style kitchens.
4. Mix of materials
With a composition of warm sand, wood and beige tones, Decus Interiors designers have moved the marine breeze that surrounds the department of the fashion blogger Carmen Hamilton, in the port of Sydney. When choosing the materials, they made special emphasis on the contrasts and combined matte surfaces with other bright. This is also the case of the kitchen furniture, in which a mirror rear wall is covered with pale plywood cabinet fronts. The island located in the center of the stay, on the other hand, combines an elegant carrara marble with dark fronts. Wood tones could not be more different at first sight, but that is why they create a charming and cozy set image.
5. Luxury Japandi style
A Danish kitchen in New York? It's a success! Selma Akkari and Rawan Muqaddas deliberately bet on the exciting contrasts of renewing this floor in the elegant Cobble neighborhood Hill, in Brooklyn. So it is not surprising that they chose a kitchen by Danish designer David Thulrup, known for their skilled combination of decent and ultramodern elements. In its design Platewithout shooters, combines with elegance cold industrial appearance, striking marble and dark wood. The absence of high furniture causes the kitchen furniture and the island to seem rather pieces of furniture and, therefore, they are visually better integrated into the area of being. With this plan, the interior designers also accentuate the air and contemporary atmosphere of the floor without losing the historical character of the building.
6. Nordic crafts with a pinch of Japan
Thomas Lykke's work has always been characterized by his great love of wood. So it is not surprising that the Danish designer (which, by the way, is one of the creative minds of the OEO study) resorted to the help of Garde Hvalsøe, a company specialized in Elegant carpentry kitchensto create your own kitchen. For the department of Lykke, located in an old 1896 building in the Østerbro neighborhood of Copenhagen, they jointly created a tribute to Danish crafts, which shows its most aerated and modern side in the treatment of solid natural materials: oak, marble and stainless steel. The central element is an island that seems to float on its stainless steel base; It was placed between the two French windows to let in a lot of light and not block access to the balcony.
7. Light and love
Why hide the utensils of everyday life when you use them every day? That is what Marcus Hannibal and Louise Sigvard, founders and designers of Bunn Studio, asked when they were looking for a new kitchen after moving to a house attached in the Kastrup neighborhood, in Copenhagen. And since no circumstances fulfilled their expectations, they created the kitchen of their dreams without further delay. They were inspired by the house of Charles and Ray Eames in Los Angeles, whose open and flooded rooms, with their furniture, carpets and works of art, left a very special impression in Hannibal and Sigvardt. The result is a mixture of functional industrial cuisine and classical country cuisine, where open oak and marble shelves mark the pattern. Not only do they offer space for cups and bowls, but also perfectly exhibit some works of art. It is a new trend in Japandi style kitchens.
Article originally published in AD Germany.