The world's most expensive fitted kitchen

At a staggering £300,000, the Colosseo Oro costs more than many houses

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  • guardian.co.uk, Sunday 25 September 2011 15.29 EDT
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Marazzi Design has produced what is believed to be the world's most expensive kitchen. Click on the image for a larger picture. Photograph: Justin Paul

In Blackpool, a shop called Cheapest Kitchens In The World is offering an entire fitted kitchen – including appliances and all-important "soft-closing drawers" – for £1,995.

However, that would barely pay for a tea towel holder in what can fairly claim to be the most expensive kitchen in the world. Marazzi Design, a London-based kitchen designer, unveiled its Colosseo Oro kitchen at a design trade show this weekend at Earls Court. The price tag? Well, prepare to burn your toast: £300,000.

You could buy an entire house – roof, front door, walls, everything – for that kind of money. But please consider what the Colosseo Oro offers. First, you will be one of only 10 people in the world to own this limited-edition model.

Second, you get a kitchen with "ultra-luxurious finishes", which include "24 carat gold leafing, crocodile embossed leather, metallic gloss Sub-Zero & Wolf appliances, and Venetian ink- stained gold glass". Furthermore, the cabinetry and surfaces have been finished with 12 coats of clear lacquer "applied by hand and finished with glitter to create a unique design statement". And if that's not enough, Swarovski crystal lights "complete the effect".

The bill for the appliances alone is £55,000. The "mirrored steel max-fired" oven hood comes in at £8,000 and the Zaha Hadid-designed tap costs £6,000. Together, it starts to make Gordon Ramsay's two-tonne Rorgue cooker – which he famously spent £67,000 installing in his home – look modest.

So who is this kitchen aimed at? "The target market is confident social food lovers in the top end of the market who like to entertain and make a statement," says the designer's representative. (Translated: Russian oligarchs and bonus-enriched hedge-fund managers.)

But the designer Paul Marazzi believes a kitchen's value should not be expressed exclusively in pounds and pence: "I feel a kitchen should have a soul and presence, transforming the room into an emotional experience, a celebration of family life and convivial living, transcending the kitchen into the heart and soul of the home". What he doesn't make clear, though, is how you integrate a sticky-fingered toddler into this one.

Leo Hickman

via guardian.co.uk

The world's most expensive fitted kitchen

Considering a really done kitchen fro example from Clive Christian runs about $250,000 to $350,000 to start, this one from Marazzi is not so bad. Do you prefer a contemporary kitchen, chef's kitchen or traditional style?
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