To celebrate a century of research and advanced craftsmanship, Arclinea has created a story that spans art, gastronomy and a vision of the future. A story that comes to life in the 100 YEARS, 100 INGREDIENTS project.
100 YEARS, 100 INGREDIENTS: one hundred ingredients, one hundred photographs, a new perspective
The centrepiece of the project is a photographic book by French artist Amélie Ambroise, author of one hundred still lifes that elevate ingredients, symbols of Italy’s gastronomic heritage, to objects of contemplation.
Through her lens, Ambroise has succeeded in transforming food into the protagonist of an editorial and conceptual narrative that starts with food and touches on the essence of design. Each photograph, curated by Juma, captures vegetables, spices, pasta, legumes and other ingredients in their primordial state: before cutting, cooking or plating.
This is how food becomes form, idea, archetype: a fragment of Italian history which, in Ambroise’s vision, is a visual bridge between matter and design.
The result is a refined publication, a reflection on the identity of food and its role in shaping domestic, relational and social spaces. In this dialogue between image and object, the kitchen returns to what it has always been for Arclinea: a place of relationships, emotions and design.
Design as social responsibility
Starting at the beginning of Milan Design Week 2025, throughout the year of Arclinea’s 100th anniversary celebrations, the 100 photographs taken by photographer Amélie Ambroise will be on sale on a dedicated web platform, www.Artsy.net. The proceeds (net of the platform’s commission costs), together with an additional fixed sum from Arclinea, will be donated to the University of Gastronomic Sciences in Pollenzo (CN), to support the talent and right to study of young people in the food sector, helping to partially cover the university fees of one or more students.
This choice reaffirms the idea of design as a cultural and social commitment, where designer kitchens are not limited to form, but are a tool for generating awareness, opportunities and dialogue.
The kitchen as the 101st ingredient
To kick off the 100 YEARS, 100 INGREDIENTS project, Arclinea’s Milan showroom was transformed into an art gallery during Fuorisalone 2025. For the exhibition, Amélie Ambroise’s photographs created an immersive experience, in which food interacted with architecture, light and the gaze.
In this space, an unexpected presence took centre stage: a new version of the Convivium island, transformed from a kitchen into a sculpture.
Devoid of equipment and entirely clad in mirror-finish steel, Convivium reflects the image of the observer and the surrounding space, becoming the 101st ingredient: designed material that becomes a symbol and focuses on the relational value of the kitchen. In this vision, the kitchen is not an object. It is a living organism, a relationship between design and everyday life.
The Arclinea kitchen collection: spaces for thinking, cooking and meeting
In 1925, an idea was born that would transform the kitchen into a relational, cultural space. An approach that combines technical expertise and design culture, rooted in a deep awareness of Made in Italy as a productive and ethical value.
Today, a hundred years later, Arclinea design kitchens are the result of continuous research combining precision and imagination, advanced craftsmanship and architectural vision.
A place of shared experience, precise design and human interaction, each kitchen is part of a larger design, where materials, functions and atmospheres interact with rigour and harmony.
Over time, Arclinea has built a unique system: a coherent body of design that integrates and enriches the previous one in a shared design language. From Italia to Convivium, from Proxima, Lignum et Lapis to material innovations, everything is part of a unified system in continuous transformation that does not follow trends but interprets, transforms and surpasses them.
Each project stems from a profound idea: to make the kitchen a space for living, meaning and everyday relationships.
