Beverage bars dedicated to drinks – from breakfast through cocktails -- have a few things in common. Recently I sat down to help a friend rethink her kitchen and open it up to the entire living space of her house. Two items on her list were beverage bars -- one item a must-have for breakfast and the other a drinks bar which her husband, sons and family guests could enjoy … [Read more...]
Kitchen of the Year Butler’s Pantry
Tour the Butler's Pantry with Mick De Giulio from Atticmag on Vimeo. Meet Mick De Giulio and take his tour of his kitchen of the year butler's pantry. Mick De Giulio is one of the most influential American kitchen designers working today. So it was a pleasure to tour the urbane Kitchen of the Year he designed for House Beautiful in Rockefeller Center. One of my favorite … [Read more...]
Monster Stoves
Many of the French restaurant ranges we’re seeing in home kitchens lately are enormous. As someone who has cooked and written professionally about food off and on all my life, it’s quite natural to pay attention to ranges -- especially French restaurant ranges -- which we’re seeing in home kitchens more frequently these days. Most of these “pianos,” as French chefs refer to … [Read more...]
La Cornue Kitchen
A big kitchen with a fabulous La Cornue range also has great custom features La Cornue's Le Chateau 147 range is the centerpiece of a 650-square foot kitchen in a Chicago suburb designed by top kitchen guru Mick De Giulio. A stainless niche with the Chicago Faucet potfiller frames space behind the range. There are teak counters and a backsplash of calacatta marble above a low … [Read more...]