A retro kitchen: which accessories to focus on

A beautiful kitchen with all the charm of old-fashioned furniture? Here's how best to choose furniture and accessories for a perfect retro kitchen.

More and more people, when deciding the furnishing style of one's kitchenchoose to focus on the vintage and timeless charm of retro furniture.

In fact, such furniture is a perfect match for this important and lived-in room of the house.

Having a well-furnished kitchen, with great attention to the colours and materials chosen, and special care for the type of furniture and accessories present, is undoubtedly the best way to have a beautiful, warm and comfortable kitchen.

But how do you perfectly furnish a retro-style cooking? What are the lines to focus on, the colour palette to favour and the details that can make the difference?

Today we explain how to do it step by step.

Retro kitchen: the perfect furniture for a vintage and sophisticated ambience inspired by the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s.

When it comes to kitchen furnished in retro stylea first distinction must be made concerning the era from which one wants to draw inspiration.

Furnishing in retro style in fact means taking a look back into the past, drawing from previous eras styles, colours, prints and lines that have left an indelible mark on the world of design due to their particularities.

The first thing to do, therefore, if you want to furnish a retro-style kitchen, is to choose the era from which to draw inspiration: in this sense, the most popular periods are undoubtedly the 1950s, 1960s and 1970s because each of these decades was characterised by a truly unmistakable style.

Let's start with the 1950s

The fabulous 1950s can be revived in our kitchens thanks to American-derived furniture, such as the classic green kitchen or in pastel shades with essential lines: the retro style that draws on the 1950s features wood furniture with important textures and metal details, especially handles and knobs, which are essential to give the room a totally realistic mood.

An example?

La handle Niche and the Grip handle are perfect for complementing 1950s furniture by giving it a thoroughly modern touch.

And again, in the Fifties-style kitchen, stand-alone refrigerators, stools instead of the usual chairs, colourful appliances, delicate and unique accessories to be carefully measured out.

Moving on to the 1960s

Instead, here we find essential kitchens dominated by clean, linear geometric shapes, Nordic-inspired light wood furniture and ultra-modern details that wink at the new discoveries of the period.

As man sets foot on the Moon, interior design is being enriched by materials such as plastic, which can now also be replaced by Plexiglas, especially for kitchen shelves on which dishes and spices can be placed.

Indispensable, in a retro-style kitchen inspired by the 1960sfuturistic metal knobs with essential shapes the Quadra knob and the Quadro knob by Polideas, a highly refined solution that fits perfectly into retro 1960s-style kitchens.

Also perfect is the Jewel knob which, with its luminous transparency, brings a touch of modernity and style to retro kitchens with a sixties mood.

Much attention is also paid to the style of the floors, which often turn into huge black & white checkerboards.

Finally, here we are in the fabulous 1970s

This was the decade of revolution, also in the style of furniture, which still inspires much contemporary style today.

The 1970s revive in the style of a retro kitchen with all their disruptive personality by bringing visual patterns and psychedelic colours inspired by hippies and discomusic.

The retro-style kitchen with a Seventies flavour thus becomes a delicate balance of tradition and modernity, dominated by furniture with rounded and sinuous lines, strong, even fluorescent colours, or dusty and sober, together with details that are often the result of a mix of different inspirations and contaminations.

An example? Try combining coloured wooden furniture with knobs such as those from the Metal range o Anticati: the surprise effect will be assured.

Finally, pay close attention to colours and prints: for a harmonious effect, choose simple furniture for your kitchen and indulge in prints on tablecloths, cushions, carpets and curtains, or go for walls embellished with wallpaper, choosing colour palettes inspired by the earth but enlivened by bright flashes of yellow, orange, green and purple.

Your kitchen will be unique and customised exactly as you wish.