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Set, Dordoni brand new kitchen
Interview with Rodolfo Dordoni M&C
How do you live the kitchen, what does this space in the home mean for you in your role as designer?
I think the kitchen is the centre of the home, I spend most of my time there. Not just cooking. It’s an “active” place, a place for living relationships inside the home.
Is it easy to take your elegance, sobriety and refined style into the kitchen?
It isn’t so much a question of being refined and elegant. The kitchen is the most rational part of my character, where function and use prevail over elegance and design. Imagination and passion dominate when I cook.
How was the new Dada design born and what was the process behind the final product?
The relationship with Molteni&C had a strong influence, above all in attitudes to developing a new product where the rational and technological innovation play a primary role. Unique stimuli, not oriented mainly towards shape or decoration as ends in themselves, but the development of a high technology product, which the kitchen should be.
When designing for Dada, did you have a certain type of kitchen, or attitude towards food in mind?
Dada has produced kitchens that have made design history, where the result has gone well past that of formal development of a modular kitchen. That’s what mainly inspired Set. A kitchen for cooking in total freedom.
Do you manage to find time and enthusiasm for cooking? Do you enjoy it?
Cooking is one of my passions, and takes up most of my free time. I don’t just like the act of cooking, but everything that goes with it: deciding what to buy, the ingredients, doing the shopping, preparing the food and then finally cooking it, using semiprofessional equipment, and the preparation of the table. To share everything with friends.
Born in Milan, Milanese in ways and thought, you also love the South and Sicily. Do you love their cooking too?
I don’t love Sicily for its cooking alone, but it plays an important role above all for its diversity from northern cooking. The Sicilians love mixing ingredients which don’t belong to our tradition, creating dishes with flavours which often surprise us.
Can you give us a recipe?
I love orange salad, because it mixes sweet, hot, and bitter flavours, certainly much closer to an Oriental tradition than one typical of Italy.
I think the kitchen is the centre of the home, I spend most of my time there. Not just cooking. It’s an “active” place, a place for living relationships inside the home.
Is it easy to take your elegance, sobriety and refined style into the kitchen?
It isn’t so much a question of being refined and elegant. The kitchen is the most rational part of my character, where function and use prevail over elegance and design. Imagination and passion dominate when I cook.
How was the new Dada design born and what was the process behind the final product?
The relationship with Molteni&C had a strong influence, above all in attitudes to developing a new product where the rational and technological innovation play a primary role. Unique stimuli, not oriented mainly towards shape or decoration as ends in themselves, but the development of a high technology product, which the kitchen should be.
When designing for Dada, did you have a certain type of kitchen, or attitude towards food in mind?
Dada has produced kitchens that have made design history, where the result has gone well past that of formal development of a modular kitchen. That’s what mainly inspired Set. A kitchen for cooking in total freedom.
Do you manage to find time and enthusiasm for cooking? Do you enjoy it?
Cooking is one of my passions, and takes up most of my free time. I don’t just like the act of cooking, but everything that goes with it: deciding what to buy, the ingredients, doing the shopping, preparing the food and then finally cooking it, using semiprofessional equipment, and the preparation of the table. To share everything with friends.
Born in Milan, Milanese in ways and thought, you also love the South and Sicily. Do you love their cooking too?
I don’t love Sicily for its cooking alone, but it plays an important role above all for its diversity from northern cooking. The Sicilians love mixing ingredients which don’t belong to our tradition, creating dishes with flavours which often surprise us.
Can you give us a recipe?
I love orange salad, because it mixes sweet, hot, and bitter flavours, certainly much closer to an Oriental tradition than one typical of Italy.
