This open kitchen answers a fundamental question: How do you ele…
This open kitchen answers a fundamental question: How do you elegantly integrate the kitchen into the living space and hide the kitchen chaos?
Bruce Damonte
The cooktop, at right, faces the dining area, but it's concealed…
The cooktop, at right, faces the dining area, but it's concealed by a freestanding wall. The wall, faced in blue steel, is both hard-working and handsome and become sa sculptural element.
Bruce Damonte
The fridge, just around the corner from the work area, lightens …
The fridge, just around the corner from the work area, lightens up the cook's space and integrates a service area into the entertaining space.
Bruce Damonte
Architect Neal Schwartz admits that he sometimes has trouble con…
Architect Neal Schwartz admits that he sometimes has trouble convincing clients to go for the less-than conventional move of setting of the fridge around the corner. Adequate landing space right next to the refrigerator helps it all make sense.
Bruce Damonte
The kitchen is adjacent to the pool and to the parking area, so …
The kitchen is adjacent to the pool and to the parking area, so keeping an eye on the kids and getting groceries into the house is no big deal.
Bruce Damonte
The kitchen and living space look out onto the back deck and the…
The kitchen and living space look out onto the back deck and the surrounding landscape.
Schwartz and Architecture
Crook|Cup|Bow|Twist plan.
Designing a kitchen for homeowners who love to cook begs a big question: What to do when you have people over and preparations are still in progress? The jury was impressed by this room’s ability to answer that charge and be an inviting open kitchen with a clearly protected cook’s space—a kitchen that doesn’t have to be all cleaned up in order to have people over. In fact, it’s the interplay between what’s functional and what’s decorative and the editing of what you see and what you don’t that makes this kitchen so alluring. –A.A.
Amy Albert is editor of Custom Home and a senior editor at Builder. She covers all aspects of design. Previously, she
was kitchen design editor at Bon Appetit;
before that, she was senior editor at Fine
Cooking, where she shot, edited, and wrote stories on kitchen design. Amy
studied art history with an emphasis on architecture and urban design at the
University of Pennsylvania. She lives in Los Angeles. Write her at aalbert@hanleywood.com, follow her on Twitter @CustomHomeMag and @amyatbuilder, or join her on Custom Home's Facebook page.
