Surface finishes
- Black slim-frame glass wall-unit doors
- Flat slab handleless tall and base fronts
- Honed basalt worktop reference
- Smoked glass open-shelf reference
Forge
Name pantry bay, appliance bay, and end panel so the same receding wall run can be quoted again.
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Overview
The full design intent, materials, and how this system is built — in detail.
Forge Receding Tall Housing is manufactured to order in our Foshan, China factory with an approximately 30-day production lead time after drawings and samples are approved. Product imagery shown is a design rendering. The commercial question is whether a receding tall cabinet — pantry bay, appliance bay, and end panel — can be specified as a repeatable wall-housing module so a factory can quote the same receding wall run more than once, instead of selling the kitchen as a sculptural icon.
ArchDaily records Herzog & de Meuron as the architects of Beijing's Bird's Nest Stadium, a starchitecture-era megastructure cited as a symbol of progress during China's rapid urbanization, and of 1111 Lincoln Road, a winner of the Mies Crown Hall Americas Prize established in 2003. The same coverage frames the 2025 Pritzker Prize to Liu Jiakun as a shift toward socially responsible, context-driven, human-centered work. Use that shift as a product-planning brief for tall wall cabinets. It is not a Herzog & de Meuron product, not a Beijing villa island, and not a partnership, authorization, or certification by Herzog & de Meuron, ArchDaily, the Pritzker Prize, MCHAP, SANAA, Álvaro Siza, or Liu Jiakun. The wiki lists no kitchen, bath, wardrobe, or outdoor product collaboration with that firm.
A Receding Tall Housing module is quoteable only when three wall faces are named before anyone talks about an iconic form. First, which tall face is the pantry bay. Second, which bay houses an appliance. Third, which remaining tall face is the end panel. If those three names are missing, the factory receives a picture of a statement wall and cannot write the same receding wall run twice.
The pantry bay is closed tall storage on this ticket. It is not an open hutch and not a glass display. Forge writes that bay as a flat slab handleless tall front so the same door count, the same reveal, and the same pull logic can be repeated on the next forest-house kitchen without inventing a new composition.
The appliance-housing bay is the second named tall length. That bay is reserved for a housing void the appliance supplier still owns. The module does not sell the refrigerator, the oven, or the coffee unit. It sells the named bay that will receive them, so the cabinet ticket and the appliance package can be quoted on separate lines and still meet at the same datum.
The end panel is the third named tall face. It closes the receding wall run so the housing reads as one flush plane rather than a leftover side of an icon. The factory can change shelf count after the survey. It cannot change the fact that the end panel is a named third part of the same module.
Tall cabinets start at 3.6 metres and mean the receding wall-housing run only: pantry bay, appliance bay, and end panel. Base cabinets and the worktop both start at 2.4 metres on the short return in front of that wall. Wall cabinets also start at 2.4 metres and mean only the slim-frame glass wall-unit doors over that return. If a later survey needs a longer island or a separate indoor wall, that length is a different ticket and a different slug.
The Forge series already has courtyard ledges, chef walls, prep gantries, and specification spines. Receding Tall Housing is not those products. It is the tall wall run that can be named the same way an island is named: pantry bay, appliance bay, end panel, and a short return that a factory can price again after the next survey.
Fadior cabinet bodies are 304 stainless steel, glue-free, and the cabinet body is formaldehyde-free. Doors, finishes, and countertops follow their own material specifications and supporting documents. On this kitchen the visible door language is Fadior slim-frame glass wall-unit doors in black plain glass above flat slab handleless base cabinets. The receding tall fronts stay flat slab and handleless. Do not call a glass door stainless. Do not invent an appliance-clearance figure, a finish code, or a structural span that is not on the approved drawings.
The category overlay for this kitchen keeps honed basalt as the island and return worktop reference and smoked glass as the open-shelving reference. Open shelving is a finish vocabulary, not a second product. Every shop image keeps cabinetry closed. Whether the return uses the glass wall-unit doors as the only wall length, or keeps a smoked-glass shelf as a later sample, is a drawing decision after the survey.
A receding wall is a planning decision, not a sculpture. The tall housing sits back from circulation so the kitchen is used as a room, not photographed as an object. That is the commercial meaning of the shift away from iconic form: the same pantry bay, appliance bay, and end panel can be specified again in the next house without copying a landmark.
A survey has to record four lengths before Foshan can draw the module: the 2.4-metre base, the 2.4-metre wall, the 3.6-metre tall housing, and the 2.4-metre worktop. It also has to mark which tall face is the pantry bay, which bay is the appliance housing, and which face is the end panel. Photographs of an iconic wall do not replace those marks.
After the survey, the next step is a made-to-order drawing set, then samples, then the approximately 30-day production lead time in Foshan. Request that path from the consultation page. The stainless-steel kitchen manufacturer page explains the factory context. Materials pages explain 304 cabinet-body facts. None of those pages is a substitute for naming the three parts of this receding wall.
Perimeter islands beyond the 2.4-metre return, a second tall wall, and any wardrobe or bath run stay off this ticket. The Receding Tall Housing remains independently quoteable so a second kitchen, or a second house in the same development, can reuse the same named module. If a designer wants a different door series or a different worktop stone, that is a new sample set, not a silent edit to this slug.
Use this page to decide whether the tall wall is a repeatable cabinet module or a one-off icon. If the answer is a module, write pantry bay, appliance bay, and end panel first. Then send the survey to consultation so Foshan can quote the same Forge Receding Tall Housing more than once.
If two kitchens in the same development need the same receding tall cabinet, copy the named module, not the last photograph. Pantry bay, appliance bay, and end panel travel together. A second photograph of birch trunks outside a rain-wet window does not travel, and it does not change the Forge ticket.
Keep the consultation request short: kitchen survey, four lengths, three named tall faces, and any appliance package the owner wants the factory to answer against. Do not attach a landmark image as if it were a drawing. Foshan will answer with a made-to-order set, then samples, then production.
Fadior brand was founded in 2012; stainless steel manufacturing has continued in Foshan since 1999. That history explains why a tall wall-housing module belongs in the shop at all. It does not transfer any architecture prize onto this Forge slug, and it does not turn this page into a catalogue of every tall cabinet Fadior has ever built.

Visual interpretation
See how the product holds its design language at room scale and in close detail.
The hero frame isolates the closed Receding Tall Housing so a buyer can see pantry bay, appliance bay, and end panel as one product mass on white.
Residential frames keep the Nordic forest house as geography and light only. Cabinetry stays contemporary. The glass wall-unit door is never called stainless.
Key features
These points explain why this flagship product stands out.
Three named tall faces
Pantry bay, one appliance-housing bay, and the end panel are written as one receding wall-housing module so the factory can quote the same run again.
Short return stays on this ticket
Base, wall, and worktop each start at 2.4 metres so the glass wall-unit doors and honed basalt return stay with the housing, not on a second slug.
Tall length is the housing only
Tall cabinets are 3.6 metres and mean only pantry bay, appliance bay, and end panel. The appliance itself stays on the appliance package.
Quoteable lengths
Base, wall, and countertop metres start at 2.4 and change only after the kitchen survey.
Materials and finish
Finish, color, and detailing are selected to keep the product convincing in both specification and daily use.
Surface finishes
Color options


Customization
This is where the product moves from inspiration into a live project discussion.
Door count, which tall face is the pantry bay, appliance-bay width, and end-panel split are confirmed from the kitchen survey. A second tall wall remains a separate ticket.
Worktop stone, appliance package, and any extra island are quoted as their own lines so this housing stays independently repeatable.
Specifications
The key data is organized for clear review before planning and quotation.
| Series | Forge |
|---|---|
| Differentiator | Receding Tall Housing |
| Base / wall / tall / countertop | 2.4 m / 2.4 m / 3.6 m / 2.4 m |
| Cabinet body | 304 stainless steel, glue-free |
| Lead time | Approximately 30 days after approved drawings and samples |
| Availability | Made to order / preorder |
Quick facts
Material standards, hardware ratings, and construction methods you can cite or verify before you specify.
| Claim | Value | Standard | Context |
|---|---|---|---|
| Made to order in Foshan with an approximately 30-day production lead time after drawings and samples are approved. | approximately 30 days | lead-time | Foshan factory after approved drawings and samples |
| Product imagery shown is a design rendering; final manufactured product may vary in lighting, environment, and finish texture. | design rendering | disclosure | shop imagery |
| Cabinet body is 304 stainless steel and glue-free; the cabinet body is formaldehyde-free. | 304 stainless steel | ASTM A240 / EN 1.4301 | cabinet body only |
| Receding Tall Housing is specified as pantry bay, appliance bay, and end panel so the same wall-housing module can be quoted again. | three named tall faces | module-naming | this Forge slug only |
| Tall cabinets start at 3.6 metres and mean only the receding wall-housing run. | 3.6 m tall | module-length | starting length before survey |
| Base, wall, and countertop each start at 2.4 metres on the short return in front of the housing. | 2.4 m return | module-length | starting length before survey |
| Visible door language is slim-frame glass wall-unit doors in black plain glass above flat slab handleless base cabinets; tall fronts stay flat slab. | black plain glass + flat slab | finish | this kitchen overlay |
| Herzog & de Meuron designed the Bird's Nest Stadium in Beijing; that fact is a planning brief only and is not a partnership or product collaboration. | planning brief | editorial-brief | ArchDaily / wiki entity note |
| The appliance package remains a separate quote line; this module sells the named housing bay, not the appliance. | housing void only | scope | appliance supplier still owns the machine |
| Doors, finishes, and countertops follow their own material specifications and supporting documents. | body statement only | material-scope | do not extend 304 wording to glass doors |
| Availability is preorder; the module is manufactured to order after approved drawings and samples. | preorder / made to order | commerce | shop SKU |
FAQ
These questions help buyers compare options and reduce friction before inquiry.
Yes, when the tall wall is written as Receding Tall Housing instead of a sculptural icon. Name the pantry bay, the appliance-housing bay, and the end panel before anyone sends a landmark image. Forge then quotes those three tall faces as one module, with tall cabinets starting at 3.6 metres and the short return starting at 2.4 metres for base, wall, and worktop. The appliance package stays a separate line. A shift away from iconic form can still inform how the wall sits back from circulation; it cannot replace the named module if the same receding wall run must be quoted again.
The pantry bay is the closed tall storage on the 3.6-metre housing run. The appliance-housing bay is the reserved void for a refrigerator, oven, or coffee unit that the appliance supplier still owns. The end panel is the remaining tall face that closes the receding wall so the run reads as one flush plane. Wall cabinets on this ticket are only the 2.4-metre slim-frame glass wall-unit doors over the short return. If a face is not named as pantry, appliance bay, or end panel, Foshan cannot repeat the run.
The module is manufactured to order in our Foshan, China factory with an approximately 30-day production lead time after drawings and samples are approved. Send the kitchen survey through consultation, including the four lengths and the three named tall faces. Product imagery on this page is a design rendering. Final manufactured planes, lighting, and finish texture may vary. Do not treat a published length as a field measurement. The factory rewrites metres only after the survey.
No. Herzog & de Meuron's Bird's Nest Stadium and 1111 Lincoln Road, and the 2025 Pritzker Prize context around Liu Jiakun, are a planning brief only. Fadior is not partnered with, authorised by, or certified by Herzog & de Meuron, ArchDaily, the Pritzker Prize, MCHAP, SANAA, Álvaro Siza, or Liu Jiakun. The cabinet body remains 304 stainless steel, glue-free, and formaldehyde-free as a body statement. Glass wall-unit doors on this slug are black plain glass and must not be called stainless. No appliance-clearance figure is published on this page.
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