This new Iacchetti design is called Convivio and can be seen at the Urushi showroom, in Milan’s Brera district. Although it may look like a table when closed, it is actually a cooker, as part of the top can be raised, by remote control from an iPad, to reveal burners and a suction hood. 

Recent environmental events have impacted on Japan, which has rediscovered a love of the family more traditionally associated with the Italian culture that, to use a cliché, is expressed by all the family members gathered around the dining table.

The standard sizes of living spaces prompted the concentration of the functional elements in a single object and production development was entrusted to a small manufacturer in Northern Italy called Haute Material, which secured the role of main contractor.