Franke's Amie Gee: How aesthetic harmony contributes to wellbeing

Franke’s Mythos Masterpiece Collection was centre stage at EuroCucina and has recently won the IF Design Award for 2026 – marketing manager Amie Gee explains how the range, and its ability to provide aesthetic harmony, supports the company’s ethos for ‘well-living’. 

Q: What do you mean by ‘well-living’?
A: Wellbeing has never been a hotter topic and our homes shape the way we feel, physically and emotionally. Kitchens are a key space that, when well-designed, are proven to have a measurable positive impact on reducing our stress levels and elevating comfort. Through developments in our product range, we want to support ‘well-living’ as we call it, so this is about filter taps that deliver quality drinking water, sinks areas that support easy food prep and clearing up, hobs that are intuitive to cook on and extractor hoods that ensure clean air to breathe. And overlaying this is the importance of visual cohesiveness and aesthetic harmony. 

Q: How does aesthetic harmony promote wellbeing? 
A: The kitchen is one of the most visually complex rooms in a house. Appliances, worktops, cabinetry, taps and sinks need to co-exist within a relatively compact footprint and often sit happily within an open plan living space. Visual cohesion is key to a sense of orderliness and calm, reducing cognitive noise and stress. When finishes, tones and textures are in harmony, the kitchen has a far more holistic feel, as opposed to a collection of individual products.

Q: How has this impacted kitchen design? 
A: Minimalism has been a popular trend for years offering visual purity and functionality, but it has now evolved into the softer interpretation of warm minimalism, characterised by a harmony of tactile materials, warmer brushed metals and subtle colour variation.

Q: What is Franke offering?
A: Warm minimalism requires designing with a cohesive palette and creating rhythm throughout the scheme. Metallics are one of the key materials in this palette and we have developed our Mythos Masterpiece Collection to offer designers a range of premium products in three finishes of gold, copper and anthracite that will integrate easily. These are available on sinks, taps, hobs, extractor hoods, even down to the smallest details of accessories such as soap dispensers and pop-up button wastes. The quality, colour and finish is exactly the same across all products, enabling designers to achieve true aesthetic harmony, as well as functional excellence.

The sink for example occupies one of the most prominent positions in the workspace yet can be typically regarded as a purely functional element. Because it’s now available in metallic finishes with a high performance PVD-coating and can co-ordinate with taps and other products in our range, designers can carry consistent metallic tones across the kitchen and beyond, tying in with other elements such as lighting pendants and socket switches.

Q: Why have warm metallics become so popular in our interiors?
A: While stainless steel will always be prized for its architectural purity, the contemporary metallics of anthracite, copper, brass and gold offer the attraction of a warm, rich aesthetic. With a complete range of products available, designers can carry this material language throughout a project.

Tactile materials such as wood, stone and metal all show depth, variation and patina and these link us back to nature and have a grounding effect. They also reassure us with a sense of longevity and craftsmanship which positively contributes to feeling good.