The Evolution of Kitchen Design: A Yearning for a Modern Stone Age Cave
, the 1980s saw the dissolution of the traditional, post-war family unit, which means that kitchen design necessarily evolved. “The kitchen as a spatial unit all but disappeared, she writes. “When possible, it was integrated into the living space: an island worktop made it possible for people to prepare meals together…The kitchen and the work and smells within it where now a subject for presentation and not something to be hidden.
Kitchen islands really came into their own in the ‘80s and ‘90s, when kitchens became the central waystation of the home, a gathering place for the increasingly scattered members of the family and the pilot’s seat for the second shift that so many women were pulling.
The “human-scale table” is nothing more than a big farmhouse table, of the sort Joanna Gaines would put in a dining area just off a kitchen that was already outfitted with a kitchen island. For Slatella, an island is nothing more than a space for unnecessary kitchen frivolities, like a trash compactor or a freezer drawer for beverages—the precise sort of domestic flexes that scream status.
Source: Tech Daily Report (techdailyreport.net)
Two islands are ridiculous though.