Healthy lifestyles, “clean” ingredients, at-home gourmands, value consciousness and e-commerce speciality products are set to be key food and drink trends for 2015, according to market research organisation Mintel. It’s ...
Tags: Key Trends, Food, Drinks
2014 has been a great year for Smeg. In 2014, five Smeg products received recognition: the concept hob with bird motif designed by architect Guido Canali and the 45 cm wine cooler, both from the Dolce Stil Novo line, the stand mixer and ...
Tags: design studio, deepdesign, Furniture
The most important thing about urban living with smaller spaces is never, ever waste any room. , but they’re also an often-wasted space requiring often-expensive solutions for maximizing them. The thing is, those storage needs could ...
Tags: Spare Closet, Furniture, Furnishing
A coffeemaker embedded with Swarovski crystals seems a little over the countertop but maybe it takes a little bling to make an everyday appliance seem less prosaic. Fortunately, the Cuisinart Crystal coffeemaker had other attributes ...
Tags: coffeemaker, everyday appliance, coffee
If a small appliance is on someone's holiday wish list, be sure to check the latest results from Consumer Reports' tests. Sales of these countertop wares have been robust, despite the down economy, which has kept manufacturers busy vying to ...
Tags: Small appliance, Blenders, Stand mixers, Toasters
One outcome of the prolonged housing slump has been that when consumers postponed renovating their kitchens and buying large appliances, manufacturers got busy redesigning small ones. The rosy results can be found in the housewares ...
Tags: appliances, housewares department, toaster, stand mixer
A KitchenAid stand mixer on the counter suggests not only that you have the cooking chops to use it but that you can afford a high-end appliance as well (typically they cost between $200 and $500). But keeping up appearances just got a bit ...
Tags: Countertop, Consumer Electronics