The Masculine Mystique

Published on Monday, October 22, 2007, by nicholassday / Edit Post

In the category of things no one was asking for, the Porsche Design Group (a subsidiary of the car company) and a German furniture firm have designed a kitchen for a much-neglected gender: men. To quote the managing director of the furniture firm, Poggenpohl, the kitchen’s “sleek and functional design language specifically addresses male customers.” If there’s anything women hate, of course, it’s something sleek and functional.

The kitchen is all aluminum, glass, and brushed wood, and it does look like a man’s kitchen—if the man were a Teutonic design executive with an evil lair and an aesthetic penchant for laboratories. I don’t know if it would be good for preparing 30-minute meals, but it looks like it’d be great for making meth.

The Internet makes my head hurt.

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  • And of course, there are no analog idiots...

  • What else makes your head hurt? Naughty internet.

    I have to say, there is a niche market for everything these days. Man bags, manly frozen dinners, manly kitchens...Next there will be a Petco kitchen designed with your dog in mind.

    The garbage bins would be easy access, the cutting board and counters would be low, and the fridge would have a doggie-door.

    No cats allowed!

  • Thomas, right on about the Higher Counters and Sinks. A while back I read "Great Kitchens: At Home with America's Top Chefs". and there seemed to be some common themes to these Top Chef Home Kitchens.
    1 - Taller Counters
    2 - Larger Sinks
    3 - Taller Faucets (So getting your tall Stock Pot in the sink is easy.
    4 - Plenty of counter space with either a built-in wood-block or large cutting board....+READ

    Thomas, right on about the Higher Counters and Sinks. A while back I read "Great Kitchens: At Home with America's Top Chefs". and there seemed to be some common themes to these Top Chef Home Kitchens.
    1 - Taller Counters
    2 - Larger Sinks
    3 - Taller Faucets (So getting your tall Stock Pot in the sink is easy.
    4 - Plenty of counter space with either a built-in wood-block or large cutting board.
    5 - Knives, Pots and Pans exposed for quick use.
    6 - FIRE. This might mean a traditional Brick Oven, Outdoor Oven, something like that.

    I bring these points up because I found all of these to be quite conducive to a "Man's Kitchen". Function, Function, Function.

    In general, there were no decorative pots or pans. No "cosies" for the toaster oven. No nick-nacks (sp?) around the sink. No exposed jars of flour (which never get used) and hidden Pots (which always get used).

    Anyway, interesting topic.

    Ian Lewis-COLLAPSE

  • Oddly enough my definition of a man's kitchen is just what I would design for a tall person:

    1) Kitchen sink that is built for someone over 5'4". A man should be able to touch the bottom of the sink with arms slightly bent and back straight.

    2) Higher counters.

    That's it. So in other words, make everything taller and you've got me. Gadgets are great and I like to buy them, but I don't use them...+READ

    Oddly enough my definition of a man's kitchen is just what I would design for a tall person:

    1) Kitchen sink that is built for someone over 5'4". A man should be able to touch the bottom of the sink with arms slightly bent and back straight.

    2) Higher counters.

    That's it. So in other words, make everything taller and you've got me. Gadgets are great and I like to buy them, but I don't use them to cook. If anything, my kitchen would need a place to store all my gadgets so that they wouldn't be in the way of the things I use on a regular basis.

    Oh, I guess the one thing I would add would be an outdoor kitchen attached to the indoor one so I could grill and move food back and forth between inside and outside as though the kitchens were one unified room. That would rock.-COLLAPSE

  • Finally! A kitchen I can drag race.