Game changing innovation from London
I saw more amazing things at the London Design Festival than I ever imagined I would. Being part of the first ever Blog Tour was a gift that keeps on giving, that's for sure. The London Design Festival is a nine-day, city-wide celebration of design and art with more than 280 scheduled events. One of the larger events this year was 100% Design.
Of the many venues we visited, 100% Design was by far my favorite . While I can get excited about furniture and textiles, after a while they all start to bleed into one another. I guess I'm a kitchen and bath guy at heart after all. 100% Design had the perfect mix of sofas and counters, draperies and flooring. I saw a lot of cool stuff and one thing in particular really blew me away.
The following images are from Pyrolave UK and they are photos of a kitchen designed by my friend Johnny Grey .
Notice whatever unusual? That counter has an induction cooktop incorporated into it. Pyrolave made from glazed, volcanic stone and it is the only fabric that could allow the electromagnetic electricity of an induction coil bypass via it with none loss of efficiency. There's no need for a normal glass cooking surface and being able to pop in an induction coil pretty much everywhere is an extremely releasing component from a layout attitude. It's also a remarkable opportunity to apply induction outdoor of the kitchen. Imagine an induction-enabled sideboard or dining desk. The mind reels.
Pyrolave UK had a booth at 100% Design and I was playing around with one of these induction-enabled cooktops while I was there. It was nothing short of amazing.
It's genius in reality and it makes best experience. Induction generation begs for innovation and I love that Pryolave has stepped as much as the plate and delivered this sort of wonderful idea. Induction-enabled Pyrolave counters aren't crossing the Atlantic any time quickly lamentably, but when they do get here I'll be the only applauding loudest.
100% Design was the seventh exchange occasion I'd attended out of doors of america in the last ten months. I'm getting on a plane for some other one in Toronto in some hours and my seeing improvements consisting of Pyrolave's induction counters have proved what I've lengthy suspected. The US not leads the arena in innovation. There. I said it. Much of the improvements I've visible this yr will in no way make it to our market right here and in the event that they do, they may be a dumbed down version of the original.
I hate to be one of those Americans who travels abroad and makes limitless comparisons to existence right here in preference to there. But the innovation factor is as apparent as it's far troubling. How and while did that occur? What wouldn't it take to turn that round? These are some of the things I think about at some stage in long aircraft rides.
Anyhow, how about this induction idea? If you're a designer, how may want to you see this figuring into a layout? If you're a house owner, would you ever spring for a positioned-it-everywhere induction cooker?