architect: Joe Colombo
year: 1963
It was in 1963 that Joe Colombo, with the vision of the prophets, imagined a minikitchen which in half a cubic metre could contain all the indispensable functions: preservation, washing, cooking, food storage and so on, even for six people. The whole thing was mobile, on wheels, with only one electrical supply plug and all the rest independent thanks to small tanks and other devices. Boffi made a few examples of this Minikitchen in 1964, immediately grasping the revolutionary nature of the proposal, but not imagining that this manifesto of contemporaneousness would give the company more visibility than its thousands of pieces sold, blazing a trail that would lead Colombo and Boffi to take partwith monoblocs, speculative habitats, in exhibitions York, 1972, and ensure them a place in the permanent collections of major museums worldwide.
