Two-hundred-year-old stone structures often don’t lend themselves to modern kitchens. But the Campanula House, on the Ionian island of Corfu,  shows how a skillful design successfully marries a contemporary kitchen to a rustic interior.
This house is one of 12 restored on the Rou Estate, a high-end property that touts outdoor terraces from which you can [...]

The all-white kitchen – cabinets, back splash, counters – set the style for the first decade of the 21st century. It’s the “manor house” look modernized and marketed by English kitchen designer Christopher Peacock [above], which draws directly from English kitchens of 100 years earlier. Usually described as “classic,” “timeless,” or “elegant,” it crawled from [...]

Halloween, this past week, reminded me of the Practical Magic kitchen. That’s the one in the 1998 Sandra Bullock-Nicole Kidman film about a family of ladies with some spooky special abilities. A lot of the action takes place on the Aga cooker and around the kitchen table.
While the style of this one was by no [...]

Move over Kip’s Bay. A group of 15 premier New York interior designers combined talents in a unique showhouse event to launch a new condominium building on West End Avenue, a street that hasn’t changed so much in 30 years or perhaps longer.
As it happens it’s in my neighborhood, Manhattan’s Upper West side, best known [...]

When classic film star Katharine Hepburn died in 2003 at age 96, her 8000-square foot beach house on the Connecticut coast came onto the real estate market for $12 million and sat there for a year. Hepburn’s father, a Hartford urologist, had rebuilt and expanded the home in 1939, following a famous hurricane in New [...]

Walls of windows on three sides of a New York City penthouse kitchen provide glorious north, east and south views and light — effectively turning it into a functional greenhouse. While this stunning architectural feature makes the kitchen totally unique, it also has an interesting impact on the cooking space.
Everything here functions at waist level [...]