A designer's culinary work space, a glass ceiling kitchen is built to satisfy artistic aspirations as well. In this home in suburban Connecticut, a personal vision based on travels to France combined with a love for European furniture inspired a blockbuster glass ceiling kitchen. With its own language of ideas and surfaces and a budget sufficient to transform the dream into … [Read more...]
French Checkerboard Kitchen
Checkerboard tile, worked two ways, creates black and white visual "wow". A top European designer, the late Alberto Pinto, pushed the black and white checkerboard tile theme to the max in his own Parisian penthouse kitchen. Large-scale black and white tile, worked in a staggered pattern is used on the entire sink wall (right) all along the range wall (left) and in the butler's … [Read more...]