Imaginings of the future
If it were possible to cook and clean the crockery in your living room without interfering in the slightest with the furniture and cleanliness of the room then who would want a kitchen? If the crockery could clean itself in a flash by going through a small tunnel where a complex mechanism functioned with a combination of lasers and microwaves, then who would want to have a sink?
At the moment, what we can do is adapt our furniture so that kitchens look in place in those spacious open-plan areas which are becoming more and more common in our homes.