German model Neff’s new vary of built-in house home equipment was designed to supply customers higher flexibility of their kitchens, says head of design Ralf Grobleben on this unique video produced by Dezeen for the model.
The Neff Assortment could be customised to let customers tailor the looks of their home equipment based on preferences, in addition to permitting them to pick the best way by which they function and work together with them.
“The kitchen is probably the most particular person room in your house,” Grobleben mentioned within the video. “With our new resolution Flex, the concept was to offer folks the chance to decide on tips on how to function their equipment and to decide on the colors of their kitchen.”
The Flex Management characteristic provides customers the choice to function their home equipment both by way of touchscreen controls or by way of a brand new machine known as Twist Pad Flex, a pocket-sized dial that gives a haptic expertise when cooking with the model’s home equipment.
The magnetic dial could be positioned onto the home equipment within the assortment, corresponding to ovens, hobs and low machines, which immediately recognise its presence and reply to its actions.
When the dial shouldn’t be in use or is eliminated, the home equipment robotically revert to touchscreen management, making them simpler to scrub than an equipment with buttons and dials.
Flex Management permits totally different residents of the identical house to manage their home equipment in varied methods based on private preferences.
“You may resolve in the event you use it by way of a contact, by way of one knob or two knobs, on the left or on the right-hand aspect,” Grobleben defined.
Flex Design is a collection of trims and panels for Neff home equipment that are available a wide range of colors together with Brushed Bronze, Deep Black, Metallic Silver and Anthracite Gray.
The trims and panels could be modified with out the necessity to reinstall the equipment and could be simply swapped to supply most customisation.
“Typically design is made only for one particular person or only one goal group within the kitchen,” Grobleben mentioned. “And we mentioned no, there are totally different folks inside a family and we wish to give these folks the flexibility to decide on.”
Flex Design is suitable with Neff’s signature Slide & Cover oven, a space-saving oven with a door that may be totally hidden beneath the equipment when open.
The oven, which celebrated its twentieth anniversary final 12 months, is thought for being utilized by contestants on The Nice British Bake Off tv present.
“We attempt to discover options that all the time give some sort of constructive shock to folks,” Grobleben mentioned.
With the Neff Assortment, the model goals to broaden the lifecycle of its merchandise to allow customers to replace their look and performance in keeping with altering tastes.
“We’re doing design differently. We’re doing it for the long run,” Grobleben defined. “With Flex Design, you do not have to throw away the entire equipment, you possibly can simply change the color if you’d like.”
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