Kitchen of the Year A sneak peek inside House Beautiful’s 10th annual design event
For the past 10 years, House Beautiful has dazzled with its annual Kitchen of the Year event, providing a decade of style and innovation in kitchens from San Francisco to New Orleans to New York City. This year’s kitchen, nestled in the Bay Area, showcases the style brilliance of Jon de la Cruz, a high-profile designer known for creating modern, timeless and inventive interiors. De la Cruz brought his sharp eye for design to the Kitchen of the Year while also taking into account the use of the kitchen as a functional meeting point for members of a large California family. The kitchen design features an open layout with a variety of black-and-white textures and mixed metals – all illuminated by lighting designs from Littman Brands. Troy Lighting’s magnificent Andromeda pendant, incorporated into a hanging pot rack, is the kitchen’s focal point, while Hudson Valley Lighting® designs on display include Roxbury in the breakfast nook, six Vernon picture lights in the accessible open pantry, and a trio of Altamont pendants above the black walnut butcher block. Finally, numerous CSL® (Creative Systems Lighting) Eco-Lightbars bring additional low-profile LED illumination to the shelves. A full feature spread of the 2017 Kitchen of the Year will be featured in the October 2017 issue of House Beautiful and in the upcoming Winter 2018 issue of Larger Than Light. CSL’s Eco-Lightbars illuminate sleek shelves
Troy Lighting’s Andromeda pendants, incorporated into a hanging pot rack
A trio of Hudson Valley Lighting®’s Altamont pendants
Photography: John Merkl
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