Is this the dawn of a new era in kitchen design? The colours of daybreak have inspired Dutch designer Onno Adriaanse to reimagine cabinetry in a way that has gone viral. Now you can order for delivery to Ireland.
A fan of the great outdoors and camping, the Eindhoven Design Academy alumnus Onno Adriaanse uses dawn to inspire his painterly approach to surfaces.
From kitchen doors to wall panels, room dividers and bar fronts, Onno has used the earliest time of the day when the midnight blues fade to violet, red, orange and indigo, and birdsong begins.
The work is inspired by the beautiful colour transitions visible during a clear sunrise, he explains.
“The kitchens feature a finish that transitions from a dark hue to a transparent tint, gradually revealing the natural colour of the wood.”
It’s a period that can offer a chromatic kaleidoscope.
The furniture designer who makes mainly one-off and custom pieces in his atelier in the Dutch design capital, uses nature as an influence in all his work.
Hedera is a chair that is inspired by climbing plants, while the table series takes its lead from fossils and is so called.
The kitchen is the result of a conversation with Rotterdam-based interior architecture practice Masa.
The execution of his idea went viral.
“People loved, but most are afraid to do it in their own home,” he says.
But some are not. There are those of us who are looking for something a little extra.
His client base now transcends continents, for he has picked up commissions in Hong Kong, Norway and Amsterdam.
The artistic approach brings joy into a space dominated by functionality.
It is also a relatively affordable way to incorporate individuality into the cookie-cutter, mass market offers.
You can buy kitchen carcasses from Ikea, B&Q, Howdens or Mayo-based Turin Components and commission Onno to make the front door panels.
He favours birch plywood.
And if you want the kitchen internals to look as good as the outside, he counsels ordering a front and back panel for each door as the tint seeps through the wood.
You could also go for a contrasting colour internally.
This approach is evident in his partnering with high-end kitchen company Houtwerff to create the ombre version in a burnt bog brown palette.
This one, for example, has a mauve interior.
For another project, in shades of blue, a client bought an Ikea kitchen and commissioned him to create custom doors for it.
He then sent the doors to the client flatpacked, and they assembled them.
To do this, you will need to know what sort of edge you want on the doors.
Each standard-sized door panel costs from €187, inclusive of VAT but not delivery to Ireland.
You will also need to commission another fabricator to make a matching ply countertop so the door and top ply match. Ask Onno for samples to physically show the supplier.
You can contact Studio Onno Adriaanse here
