There are window shades in this kitchen. Guess where.
The owner of this elegant contemporary Dallas home clearly has a modernist sensibility. Her elegant oak and stainless kitchen, with Vermont marble counters, has the requisite slab-front cabinets with architectural bar handles, pro range and a quintet of delicate pendants over an island. The kitchen is open to an expansive dining room dominated by an exquisite George Nakashima table, which qualifies as a work of art in its own right. A set of graceful Italian Sedotta cherry chairs, with black leather seats, coordinate in spirit with the concrete floors.
This isn’t a home that would have curtains in the usual sense. In fact, shoji screens – Japanese style plastic-coated rice paper panels in a wooden frame — on overhead tracks were installed to separate the living room from the dining room if need be.
Still, it’s a bit surprising to see a trio of artistically screen-printed vinyl shades descend from the ceiling to the counter top with a push of a button to block off the kitchen with artistic serenity. Like a Hollywood screening room without a projector. To me, this is genius.
Love this–how cool is that???