Ali Tayar
The proposed kitchen takes its cue from the design of Electrolux ICON appliances, which combine elegance and technological innovation with a user-friendly interface. It is a "floating" island that functions as a sculptural insertion into the living room area. The stacks are accommodated inside the vertical component of the island structure.
Antonio Di Oronzo for BluArch
This kitchen design is part of a larger residential interior design project. The client, an actress and dancer wanted a sleek, beautiful, sexy kitchen. The concept of the design is based on the lightness of dance moves and is suggestive of a lifting gesture and apparent embrace.
Joel Lamere and Cynthia Gunadi of GLD
The Western kitchen was historically regarded as service space, kept removed from dining and living rooms. This design blends the kitchen and social spaces that revolve around dining, so that it becomes a continuous series of activities that transform the way we inhabit the kitchen — what is usually hidden becomes celebrated.
Laura Bohn — Goats on the Roof
This kitchen project is integrated into a rural site in Pennsylvania, a working farm with stables. The kitchen addition is approximately 850 sq ft, and mixes industrial lights, stainless steel Electrolux ICON appliances with rough flagstone, white Carrara marble counters and exotic plants — creating a balance between the rural surroundings and the modern kitchen.
Chiara Ferrari
The elegance of this kitchen design is created by the contrast between the smooth, sleek, seamless countertop and the rough, textured, and warm recycled plywood. There is a working surface within the wall units that is a prep area with a mirrored backsplash to help create the illusion of a much larger space.
John Hartmann — Hot Cold Wet
This kitchen is designed for the process of cooking with appliances grouped by zone according to temperature and stage of preparation. The hot cluster is tall, warm and busy. The cold cluster is tall, cold and dry. The wet bar is low and long, wet and clean.
Ghislaine Vinas
Back to basics takes an existing kitchen design and re-conceives it through the lens of the designer's Dutch roots — using the form of the classic Dutch house and the simple, green monopoly toy house as inspiration. The design also mines history as it uses large digital prints of historic kitchens to reflect on what kitchens are today and what they once were.
Jin Feng — Renovation of the Affleck House Kitchen
This project is a restoration/renovation for the national historic landmark Affleck House, the first Usonian house in Detroit, MI designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. The design is consistent with preservation guidelines and incorporates sustainable features. The designers incorporated Wrights' use of natural materials, spatial concepts, daylight and artificial lighting strategies consistent with Usonian Houses.
Stephanie Katch and Pamela Katch of Katch I.D. Inc.
This high-style, high-function glass kitchen accommodates a bustling family life as well as large-scale entertaining — it can service a quick family breakfast as easily as a catered dinner for 50. The functional and aesthetic qualities of the kitchen are equally practical and luxurious.
J. Penn Ruderman of OPRCH — A Space of Flows
Once a sequestered realm, the kitchen has become the hub of all life in the home and a space of unparalleled intensity. This proposal embraces these crossings paths of people, activities, and resources to engender the space of the kitchen with a singular intensity and dramatic flexibility — the kitchen is organized around these three key flows (family, resources, and activity).
