What is Valcucine Wunderkammer?
An exclusive meeting to discover Valcucine’s design vision and uniqueness, created for interior decorators/interior designers/architects in collaboration with our dealers worldwide.
Valcucine and customization culture
Valcucine has always promoted a free design approach, able to respond intelligently, creatively and respectfully to the user’s different needs. Every kitchen can become a one-of-a-kind piece, thanks to solutions designed to offer the designer wide expressive and compositional freedom.
I have always thought that beauty and taste are born from the harmony of diversity, and nature has a lot to teach us in this regard. If we observe it carefully, we discover in it an inexhaustible source of inspiration and knowledge.
Gabriele Centazzo, Valcucine designer
From this inspiration comes our approach: freedom to combine, interpret, create.
How to customize a Valcucine kitchen
Total compositional freedom
A broad and flexible design system that allows cross-combining collections, materials, thicknesses, Special Elements, openings and aesthetics.
A true “big lego” that gives designers maximum freedom to create unique compositions, as we see in the projects featured in Domus Anthology, the new digital catalogue presenting the best Valcucine projects worldwide.
Genius Loci
The preciousness of detail
The drawer becomes an iconic element: carvings, inlays, sculpted stones, precious metals…
Valcucine revives ancient craftsmanship techniques and reinterprets them in a contemporary way, restoring dignity and value to trades that risk disappearing.
Vitrum Arte
The beauty of glass inlay
A craftsmanship technique that combines innovation and the human gesture to create unique, unrepeatable pieces.
The inlay process expresses beauty, freedom and creativity, offering both the designer and the end client room for personal interpretation.
The Valcucine Wunderkammer concept
Valcucine customization comes from design, technical and craftsmanship choices. The workshop allows designers to experience this journey first-hand:
- They understand the philosophy
- They experiment with the technique
- They live the craftsmanship
- They create something unique
From idea to artwork: uniqueness becomes an experience.
Naming: Wunderkammer
The dealer showroom, an expression of the Valcucine world, is ideally a Wunderkammer: a place where surprising openings, hidden functions, noble materials and handcrafted details coexist. Every element is a wonder that brings together beauty, ingenuity and uniqueness.
Designers’ creativity as a new wonder
The workshop enables participants to create a unique piece, a personal expression of their vision. As in Wunderkammern, each piece becomes part of a collection of different stories and identities.
A name that opens to future developments
“Valcucine Wunderkammer” becomes the ideal container for possible exhibitions or competitions, transforming the works created into a new place of shared wonder.
Future developments
Final contest – Prize
All the workshop drawings will automatically be entered into the final competition, ensuring that every studio can participate without additional steps or barriers.
The winner will be selected through a popular vote conducted online, primarily via an Instagram-based platform, where the most clicked and most voted project will take first place. The prize is designed to align with the Valcucine experience: a trip for two to Venice, combined with a guided tour of Valcucine’s artisan network.
Exhibition
Finally, the exhibition will bring together the workshop works, taking the Wunderkammer concept to the extreme: «a wonder among wonders»
Ideally, it would be presented during major art events (e.g., Milan Design Week, Venice Biennale…) to fully highlight designers’ creativity and Valcucine’s identity.