Boffi, Part II

Amidst reporting all the fun at Boffi’s first anniversary party in Georgetown last week, I didn’t spend enough time on the reintroduction of the Minikitchen, which Paolo Boffi traveled from Italy to present at Thursday’s event.

First designed in 1963, the mobile kitchen packs cooking, storage, and refrigeration into one square-meter unit with a single power source. Originally designed with teak, the new version is molded from Corian, which works great outdoors.

“A lot of people have it in flats and condos, and roll it right out on the terrace,” says Adnan Hamidi, the store manager at Boffi Studio DC. “It’s being able to literally roll your kitchen right outside.”

It almost goes without saying that the Minikitchen is ideal for, well, mini kitchens. But if you need more of a reason to splurge, here’s how you can justify it from an art-collector/design angle, according to the Boffi literature:

“More than just a kitchen, a concept. A kitchen abstract that includes pure functionalism … The natural geometry of the piece, its appearance having the vaguely enigmatic feel of heavy machinery, alongside a natural aesthetic as an intelligent device that would be found in the ideal home, a domestic hub upon which one can rely on to provide both the practical needs of daily life and the desire for beauty in the home.”