Made To Order Kitchens: The Kitchen Studio

WORDS Katharyn Williams Jaftha

Whether you like a classic or a contemporary kitchen, The Kitchen Studio can make it to order.

The kitchen is regaining its position as the hub of family life thanks to addictive reality series like MasterChef and popular TV shows featuring the likes of Jamie Oliver and Gordon Ramsay.

The Kitchen Studio recently launched a range of exciting new products for home cooks looking to not only steam and simmer like Nigella but to also do it in a space befitting a celebrity chef.

Established more than 20 years ago, The Kitchen Studio is a leading local designer and manufacturer of customised kitchens. It is particularly enthusiastic about its latest range of cupboard door fronts, such as the new Alphabet door, the aluminium Tessuto door, new textured finishes on doors, dyed engineered veneers and wild African veneers (where the trees are grown in Africa but the processing of the veneers is done in Italy and Germany).

These cupboards and drawers not only look beautiful but they also open and close smoothly – as a celebrity chef would expect. One of the biggest products launched this season is the heavy-duty ArciTech drawer system from German brand Hettich, which has runners with a load-carrying capacity of up to 80 kg. Then there’s the range of fittings and stays from Italiana Ferramenta, which guarantees smooth opening and soft closing of doors. Soft-close hinges are now a standard feature of all The Kitchen Studio cabinetry.

Also available at The Kitchen Studio are Elica and Falmec cooker hood extractors, which have been described as works of art: Some look like designer light fittings, some disappear into the counter-top and others are mounted high up in the ceiling so as not to interrupt the flow of an open-plan kitchen.

Described as “contemporary European convenience and design with a heart of Africa”, most of the products that The Kitchen Studio offers can be customised to suit any client’s needs.

The Kitchen Studio has showrooms in Midrand, Sandton, Durban, Pinetown, Umhlanga Rocks, Cape Town and Accra, Ghana.