Miami’s South Beach is known for its hip style and bold interior design -- even in the kitchen. One way for appliance manufacturers to market their products to designers and consumers is by sponsoring kitchen design contests. Wolf does it and and so does Miele, which just announced this year’s winner – a hyper-sleek minimalist galley kitchen in a Deco District high rise. … [Read more...]
Ancient House, Modern Kitchen
A modern kitchen befitting a two-hundred-year-old stone house on a Greek island. The Campanula House, on the Ionian island of Corfu, shows how a skillful design successfully marries a modern kitchen to a rustic interior. This is one of 12 restored houses on the Rou Estate, a high-end property in Greece that touts outdoor terraces from which you can see Albania. Kitchens in … [Read more...]
All-White Kitchens – Trend Over
The all white kitchen trend lasted for a decade. Now it needs these updates. The all white kitchen trend – 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 … [Read more...]
More Inspired Design Showhouse
Tour part two of the Inspired Design showhouse celebrating extraordinary women A large amount of space has been devoted to the Inspired Designs Showhouse here in New York City. It features two apartments full of rooms — nearly 10,000 square feet — created by 15 top designers as a benefit for The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, founded by Evelyn H. Lauder. Each room was … [Read more...]
Inspired Design Showhouse
Tour the Inspired Designs showhouse in NYC with rooms dedicated to extraordinary women. 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, … [Read more...]
Custom Cherry Kitchen Tour
An amazing update from disco silver to a natural cherry kitchen with custom features galore. When Margie B set out to renovate the ‘70s kitchen in her New England home she wanted a new cherry kitchen. She also hoped to keep the original footprint of the room and wanted a peninsula instead of an island. “We were a bit apprehensive about this as the trend is to do the reverse,” … [Read more...]
