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Dear Reader,
The kitchen is a hot place to be. Not just because the fire in the hearth produces heat for preparing delicious meals, but also because people gather there to tell their stories. That’s how it has always been, ever since people started cooking around campfires.
In this issue we will talk about the kitchen as a hot location for living and design. Titi Laflora describes the kitchen as a hot place to work – she tells us how she conjures up her ingenious culinary concepts and her unusually creative eating projects. And she also reveals that her work is influenced by music, as is shown in this edition of our "Kitchen & Office.Playlist".
The hottest hangout in April was once again Milan during the furniture fair – see our report inside. Yoga is an excellent way to relax and recuperate, recommends Susanne Lurger. She even practises it at the office! This article takes us to London, including Google’s phenomenal office. It is also a testimonial to our design.
We hope that we have whet your appetite for our cocktail of themes. Enjoy sampling them!
Your Bene editorial team
TRENDS
In our current Office.Info series we are visiting rooms with a special identity and exploring the whys and wherefores of their design and impact. This issue focuses on the kitchen, whose role as a living room has been filled with new life for young urbans.
PERSONALITIES
Work and lifestyle on the cutting edge: This month, Titi Laflora talks about what her kitchen means to her: about an office that was turned into a kitchen, about inspiration through simplicity, and about the sensuousness of a perfect yeast dough.
DESIGN
When it first opened, the “Salone Internazionale del Mobile” was only supposed to serve as a platform for selling more Italian furniture to foreign customers. Five decades later, the result is impressive – it is the most important furniture fair in the world.
OFFICE TRENDS
Increasing workloads and a higher retirement age have also increased the interest of companies in their employees’ health and well-being. The ideas are pretty inventive: for example, yoga at the office.
PLAYLIST
Don’t ask for bread! - After several projects in the art and design world, Titi Laflora is following her great passion - cooking.
BOOKS
Better food, better work. It all started with some down-to-earth training as a cook. After that, during a second training as store manager at McDonald’s and an initial glimpse into the world of fast food, Reinhard-Karl Üblacker decided to take a different path – both personally and professionally.
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