If you expand your horizons, and travel beyond the centre of culinary design, you will find a lot of references in other cultural realms.
Didn’t Marinetti with his manifesto La Cuccina Futurista try to revolutionize the idea of a kitchen a hundred years ago?
When the First Vienna Vegetable Orchestra plays today his music on vegetable instruments, they have in mind an aesthetic dimension.
And in cinema, from La Grande Bouffe or The Cook, the Thief, his Wife and her Lover, and the rest to numerous Asian films, you can understand the relation between the kitchen and the erotic, human relations and design, all elements you find in the present culinary design.