Materials & sustainability

Why a Valcucine kitchen uses less of the planet, breathes cleaner, and gives more back.

"I think of glass as a magical material that has been shrouded in mystery since it was first discovered three thousand years ago. Eco-sustainable and resistant, glass reflects the philosophy behind my approach to design."

Gabriele Centazzo, designer of Valcucine

Vitrum, the glass kitchen

Valcucine was the first company to bring glass into kitchen furniture. Expressive, precious, hygienic and colour-fast, Vitrum glass turned the kitchen door into a canvas, glossy or matt, in any colour, even hand-decorated in the Vitrum Arte ateliers.

Around it sits one of the widest material libraries in the industry, worked by Italian artisans down to inlay and carving.

Vitrum glassCeramicNatural stoneMetalWood & solid woodCarbontecLaminate & FENIXLacquer

Dematerialisation, then circularity

Valcucine was the first company in the world to fully rethink every structural part of a kitchen, door, top and carcass, under one principle: use less raw material and less energy, and design every part to come apart again.

The thinnest kitchen door in the world — **The 2 mm door**The thinnest in the world, up to 85 percent less material on an aluminium frame resistant to water, steam and heat.

Invitrum glass and aluminium base units — **Invitrum base units**The first kitchen cabinet made entirely of glass and aluminium, patented in 2009. Fully recyclable, zero waste at end of life.

Invitrum assembly designed for disassembly — **Built to come apart**Mechanical joints instead of glue, mono-material logic since 1998: every part separates cleanly for repair or recycling.

The special elements

Valcucine's patents live between the cabinets: the pieces that make the kitchen open, lift, hide and respond.

New Logica System equipped back section — **New Logica System**The back panel with magical doors: taps, racks, sockets, even the hood, revealed and hidden at a touch

Logica Celata disappearing kitchen scenes — **Logica Celata**Disappearing scenes in Bar, Kitchen and Food Preparation configurations

Aerius wall-hung unit — **Aerius wall unit**Extreme visual lightness from partially or fully recyclable parts

V-Motion gesture-controlled kitchen — **V-Motion**The patented system that opens the kitchen with a gesture, like a conductor

Vela lift-up-and-over wall unit door diagram — **Vela wall unit**A silent lift-up-and-over door on a concealed balancing mechanism, awarded in 2025

Hand-crafted Genius Loci drawer — **Genius Loci drawer**Handcraft made in Italy: inlaid wood, carved stone, worked metals

Ergonomics you can feel

Decades of studies on how people actually use kitchens shaped rules the industry later followed.

Everything within reach

The equipped back section keeps tools between hand and eye height while cooking; deep jumbo drawers replace bending and rummaging at floor level.

Doors that get out of the way

Lift-up and lift-up-and-over openings free the workspace; nothing swings into your face or your path.

Light where you work

Luminous panels built into special units bring daylight-like clarity to the worktop and an airy feel to the whole composition.

Safe by geometry

Rounded edges and profiles across collections, certified since the first GS safety award in 1995.

Healthy by test

Continuous testing for harmful volatile substances, checks on artificial radioactivity, and the strictest formaldehyde emission standards.

Certified, audited, planted

In 1998 Valcucine founded Bioforest, an association that finances reforestation of destroyed or degraded ecosystems in Italy and abroad, including the Otonga rainforest project in Ecuador, and supports scientific research on biodiversity.

FSC chain-of-custody certification
LEED mapping and F4 star rating
ISO 14001 environmental management
ISO 45001 health and safety
UN 2030 Agenda sustainable development goals

Reforestation project supported by Bioforest

Touch the materials

Glass, stone and wood behave differently under your hand than on a screen. The samples are in our Beirut showroom.

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