nami Reinvents the Kitchen Island
Passionate, harmonious, sculptural, communal…that is the nami kitchen designed by Yabu Pushelberg (YP) in collaboration with eggersmann. The multidisciplinary design studio founded in 1980 by George Yabu and Glenn Pushelberg designs buildings, interiors, lighting, furniture, objects, landscapes, and graphics that elevates design to how things make people feel. And that is exactly what they have done with nami, the inaugural collection designed for eggersmann.
“I remember being captivated by the first kitchen I’d seen designed by eggersmann because it didn’t look like a kitchen. Everything was crafted from stone and it was a wonder to take in knowing the precision and the finesse required to actually realize something comprehensive and functional from a material that’s so uncompromising. With nami, we aimed to create a kitchen that didn’t dictate space but also didn’t disappear, as many modern concepts tend to do. To achieve this, we designed a cabinet that reveals rather than conceals, infused with transformability and anchored by a sculptural work of art in the form of center island that loans an emotional layer to the design as a whole.”
– George Yabu
The influential design firm shares with eggersmann a similar approach to product design continually searching for the new and innovative and striving to conceive memorable experiences of tomorrow.
