A class of its own
From a simple concept to a revolutionary world first, an outstanding Kiwi creation turns 20 – and gets some new bells and whistles.
TODAY’S DISHES HAVE SOME FINE minds to thank for their star treatment. Some major innovation came with the territory 20 years ago when Fisher & Paykel’s engineers got to thinking about the practicality of the filing cabinet and developed the concept that changed washing-up forever. Propelling the New Zealand company onto the world stage, the DishDrawer™ was the best thing to happen to dishes since the dishwasher.
Says Fisher & Paykel’s head of industrial design Mark Elmore, “‘We live life out of drawers, so why don’t appliances do that too?’ That insight started us thinking about how a dishwasher could slide out towards you and provide an ergonomic solution to loading and unloading your dishes.”
Who can argue with the wisdom and necessity of an appliance that makes one of life’s most tedious chores as much of a pleasure as possible? And after 20 years of dirty dishes and awards won around the globe, the DishDrawer™ still stacks up – in a big way. Two decades of refinement and over 1.2 million test cycles completed in Fisher & Paykel’s performance labs have further improved the technology and design, and now they’ve added perks such as extra drying, faster speeds and sanitising features to their latest models.
Here’s to the one and only Fisher & Paykel DishDrawer™. Now more durable, more water/power efficient and quieter than ever, it’s in its prime – both a design classic and the latest and greatest. It’s precision engineering, perfected.