The Kitchen Affair

Brands with provenance, not logos on shelves.

We represent a small number of engineering and design houses — each chosen for what it contributes to a kitchen that must perform beautifully for decades.

Coffee beans and cup on timber

Jura

Switzerland, est. 1931

Swiss coffee culture, perfected one cup at a time.

Floating timber shelving, precisely hung

Blum

Austria, est. 1952

The quiet engineering inside every great kitchen.

Warm interior with leather and timber

SMEG

Italy, est. 1948

Technology with an Italian accent.

Built-in ovens set into marble-clad joinery

Gaggenau

Germany, est. 1683

Three centuries of metalwork, distilled into the private kitchen.

Muted interior composition in stone tones

Miele

Germany, est. 1899

“Immer besser” — always better, for four generations.

White marble island kitchen with pendant lighting

Bora

Germany, est. 2007

The extractor hood, made obsolete.

Timber and white architect-designed island kitchen

V-ZUG

Switzerland, est. 1913

Quietly Swiss. Precisely everything.

Modern villa at dusk

Liebherr

Germany, est. 1949

A house that thinks about cold the way vintners think about terroir.

City apartment with restrained palette

Bosch

Germany, est. 1886

German dependability, refined for the modern home.

Indoor-outdoor living pavilion in afternoon light

Siemens studioLine

Germany, est. 1847

The intelligent end of German engineering.

Quiet lounge in soft, low light

Sub-Zero

USA, est. 1945

Food preservation as a fine art.

Seared beef resting off the grill

Wolf

USA, est. 1934

Eight decades of professional fire, tamed for home.

Warm interior with leather and timber

La Cornue

France, est. 1908

The château range — built by hand, one commission at a time.

White marble island kitchen with pendant lighting

Franke

Switzerland, est. 1911

The working heart of the kitchen, Swiss-made.

Muted interior composition in stone tones

hansgrohe

Germany, est. 1901

Water, given a considered form.

Quiet lounge in soft, low light

Dornbracht

Germany, est. 1950

Tapware as architecture.

City apartment with restrained palette

Quooker

Netherlands, est. 1970

100°C, on tap, the moment you want it.

White marble island kitchen with pendant lighting

bulthaup

Germany, est. 1949

The kitchen as a living space, not a room of cupboards.

Warm interior with leather and timber

Boffi

Italy, est. 1934

Milanese design culture, in the most functional rooms of the house.

Muted interior composition in stone tones

Poliform

Italy, est. 1970

One design language, from kitchen to wardrobe to living room.

Quiet lounge in soft, low light

Poggenpohl

Germany, est. 1892

The world’s oldest kitchen brand — and it shows, in the right way.