Bulthaup's Largest-Ever Showroom Opens in China
The 9,000-square-foot space features the company's B3 kitchen system, Artemide lighting, and Carl Hansen & Son chairs.
Nicholas Tamarin -- Interior Design, 4/29/2008 12:00:00 AM
Purveyors of luxury goods are enjoying unprecedented growth in China, so it’s no surprise to find German design icons like Porsche and Mercedes Benz in Shanghai. Now, these two status symbols have a compatriot to welcome as a new neighbor. Bulthaup, the kitchen design specialist, recently cut the ribbon on its largest showroom in the world, a 9,000-square-foot space in China’s largest city.
The showcase is a means of introducing the rapidly emerging country to the manufacturer’s kitchen and cabinet systems, including the popular B3 system, which features its trademark floating design concept and functional wall system. Natural materials are used extensively in the space, which is further enhanced by Artemide lighting and Carl Hansen & Son chairs.
Kitchen platforms utilize natural pine imported from Denmark, while the charcoal-black granite flooring is identical to what famed British architect David Chipperfield is using for the Nine Tree residential complex in Hangzhou -- his first in China, too -- where B3 kitchens will be installed.
From top: The entrance to the new Bulthaup showroom in Shanghai, it's first in China and the company's largest in the world. The company's B3 kitchen system.
Photos courtesy of Bulthaup
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