Kitchen of the Week: A Roving Showroom from British Standard

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As agency followers of British Standard—purveyors of readymade, endlessly adaptable kitchen cabinetry—we needed to know extra about their newest enterprise: a roving showroom, expertly fitted into the again of a white transit van.

The van, which contains a absolutely fitted British Standard kitchen, is about to embark on a summer time street journey throughout the UK, giving would-be clients the chance to expertise their easy, picket cabinetry first hand. Excellent news for many who are unable to go to their static showrooms in Marylebone and Hoxton.

Images courtesy of British Standard.

Above: The most recent British Standard roving showroom, which supersedes their extra conventional shepherd’s hut.

the doors reveal a fully fitted british standard kitchen, designed by the compa 10 — Above: The doorways reveal a fully-fitted British Standard kitchen, designed by the corporate’s inventive director, Katie Fontana.

British Standard is the sister firm of Plain English, which, for 30 years, has championed luxurious, bespoke British cabinetry. At British Standard, the simplicity of design and high quality of expertise is upheld, however the duty of measuring, ordering, and putting in is handed on to the client (therefore the diminished value level).

the rear view of the roving showroom. 11 — Above: The rear view of the roving showroom.

The roving showroom goals to make this course of easy by providing a free design session. “We ask shoppers to come back with correct dimensions, to permit us to work collectively on a format that fulfills their sensible necessities and total aesthetic purpose,” says design supervisor Adrian Bergman. “It’s a very collaborative course of.” Earlier than leaving, clients will probably be supplied with an preliminary design and a procuring record of the cabinets and equipment they require.

the interior was inspired by the precision of yacht design and the kitchens des 12 — Above: The inside was impressed by the precision of yacht design and the kitchens designed for the Barbican Property in London.

The inside of the van has been designed by Katie Fontana, co-founder and artistic director of British Standard. Katie, an skilled yachtswoman, was impressed by each the space-saving precision of yacht design and the standardized design rules of London’s best-loved Brutalist property, the Barbican. “The Roving Showroom created a novel design proposition however one that isn’t unfamiliar to us,” she explains. “We’ve lengthy admired the compact design models on the Barbican, and the Barbican kitchens, in actual fact, had been designed by Brooke Marine, a yacht clothes shop. Drawing inspiration from yacht design, all these little interconnections felt prefer it was the best path to discover when creating the Roving Showroom.”