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34 THE TOP BRASS by Michael Lassell
84 DOUBLE TAKE by Tate Gunnerson
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42 COMING ’ROUND by Karine Monié
94 RED AND GREEN by Edie Cohen
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100 HIGH CONTRAST by Craig Kellogg
58 NET-ZERO HEROES by Wilson Barlow
106 EVERYBODY WELCOME by Craig Kellogg
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hooray for k&b! Welcome to the age-old yet newest hot spot of your family and entertaining life—and to the epicenter of your me time, where you can safely get away from it all...aaaahh. Nope, it’s not a contradiction in terms: It’s our celebration of the very best in kitchen and bath design, issue #3! In the first volume, we coursed the world over to bring you an exhaustively vetted series of K&B projects and products that established the style boundaries within which the entire sector lays and prospers. In our second round, we burrowed deep into lifestyle considerations, in particular the drive to move outdoors—or merge indoor with outdoor—for all aspects of daily habitation, demonstrating just how rewarding that brand of living can be. Numero tres is, simply put, all brass tacks. On your behalf, we locked on tight to the most effective engines for achieving the most innovative kitchen and bath environments. We explore the mix and match of metal, from brass to gold to stainless; stone, with both true and faux rocking the house; wood, still nature’s choice; and last but not least, all shades of color! Sure enough, these four classes of material choices and design tools have become this issue’s fundamental chapters, and together they deliver the leading trends—and best bets—in today’s $158 billion market (for product and materials alone!). A big hug and many thanks to our pals at the National Kitchen and Bath Association (aka NKBA) for partnering with us and continuing on this journey! Welcome home and come on in!
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YOUR BATHROOM IS WHERE YOU... Soak. Escape. Shower.
Sing. Shave. Lather, Rinse & Repeat. Relax. Hide. Cry.
Apply Makeup. Do Hair. Think.
Tweeze. Play with Bubbles. Splash. Scrub. Need Good Ventilation.
Gargle. Primp. Rehearse. Recover. Floss. Moisturize. Pop a Pimple. Tell Stories. Blow-dry. Flat-Iron. Psych Yourself Up. Light a
Scented Candle. Curl. Kiss a Weigh In. Wind Down. Color.
Condition. Check Your Phone.
Highlight. Catch Up on the News. Laugh. Listen to Music.
Brush (50 Strokes). Decompress. Practice Your Oscar Speech.
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standing tall Freestanding tubs, from the traditional claw-foot to modern-sculptural styles, are on the rise as a focal point in spalike bathrooms. That naturally begets a need for stand-alone fillers. Moen comes through with a host of offerings, including Align, a transitional option that suits both ends of the aesthetic spectrum. The one-handle faucet—which features an optimum flow rate for quick tub filling—comes in chrome, matte black, and Lifeshine brushed nickel or brushed gold finishes. “Lifeshine” refers to the finish’s durability: guaranteed not to tarnish, corrode, or flake off under normal use. Addressing wobbling concerns common to floor-mounted tub fillers, the manufacturer’s proprietary bracket system ensures the faucet remains still as a statue. moen.com ALIGN
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textile to tile While participating in a panel discussion, interior designer Alison Rose showed a photo of one of her residential projects featuring a custom configuration of tiles from Artistic Tile. In the crowd was the company’s founder and CEO, Nancy Epstein, who approached Rose after the presentation and floated the idea of a collaboration. That proposal culminated in Euclid, named for the father of geometry. Rose developed the design by studying historic tapestries under a microscope, then reinterpreting the sequence of fibers as a geometric mosaic. Four water-jetcut shapes in a variety of classical marbles, from Lilac to Cipollino, can be arranged in virtually endless iterations. “It’s basically my alphabet: set units designed to work together in infinite ways,” says Rose. Individual tiles are approximately 5 ½ or 10 inches square, while pre-mixed sheets measure about 11 or 20 inches square. artistictile.com
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Three cheers for color in the kitchen 1. Empira White quartz surfacing by Caesarstone. caesarstoneus.com 2. Indigo Blue enameled cast-iron finish for sinks, tubs, and shower bases by Kohler Co. kohler.com 3. Half & Half cement floor and wall tiles by Bharat Floorings and Tiles. bharatfloorings.com 4. Professional Series 48-inch six-burner range in Azzurro by Bertazzoni. bertazzoni.com 5. Matteo Thun and Antonio Rodriguez’s Nice faucet handles in clear
acrylic and colored film by Fantini. fantiniusa.com
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Jaunty kitchen cabinets in low-fi painted MDF enliven a Seattle townhouse, one of three in a complex by Best Practice Architecture, Hybrid Architecture, and Steven Lazen.
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1. Bentley quartz surfacing in high-gloss or matte finish by Cambria. cambriausa.com 2. Axel Grand mosaic in polished Calacatta
Tia and Nero Marquina marbles and Blue Macaubas quartzite by New Ravenna. newravenna.com 3. Alessandro La Spada’s Kobol vanity in
gunmetal-gray stainless steel and marble with enameled ceramic basins by Visionnaire. visionnaire-home.com 4. Lagoon gem-glass slabs by Sicis. sicis.com
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What’s hot, what’s next? NKBA’s exclusive 2019 Design Trends survey took a deep dive into the leading trends, surfaces, colors, finishes and more that are driving kitchen and bath style today and what’s projected for tomorrow. Here’s a smattering of stats from the poll of nearly 600 design professionals.
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ON THE HORIZON Transitional (88%), Contemporary (80%) and Farmhouse (55%) are projected to be the most popular kitchen styles over the next three years. Industrial (50%) and Traditional (46%) round out the top five. GOT THE BLUES? After white, gray and beige/ bone, blue is most popular in the three leading kitchen categories: Transitional (19%), Contemporary (13%) and Farmhouse (15%). PLAN OF STEEL Stainless-steel sinks dominate Contemporary (82%), Industrial (71%), Transitional (67%) and Mid-Century (65%) kitchens. BATH OF THE FUTURE Transitional (83%), Contemporary (79%) and Traditional (48%) are projected to be the most popular master bath styles over the next three years. Industrial and Coastal (44% each) round out the top five. ROCKIN’ IT Quartz still dominates kitchen and bath countertops in all design styles EXCEPT Industrial kitchens, where concrete is king. WALK THE PLANK Hardwood/engineered wood in plank style is most popular in Farmhouse (92%) and Transitional (81%) kitchens. MIX IT UP Mixed materials (55%) and metal (41%) characterize cabinets in Industrial-style kitchens while painted wood prevails for cabinets in 77% of Farmhouse kitchens. STAYING GROUNDED Ceramic/porcelain/stone flooring is found in 82% of Transitional baths but just 57% of Industrial baths. BLACK MAGIC While stainless steel still leads most appliance finishes, black stainless is coming on strong, appearing in about a third of most kitchen styles. MID-CENTURY MARK 61% of design professionals say cabinets make the biggest statement in Mid-Century kitchens, most often in a medium wood grain (56%), with flat panel or slab doors.
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divine intervention Hancock Architects brings gold glamour to a centuries-old church in Sydney, Australia
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“We chose a base of neutral gray with gold accents, which complemented the original fabric of the church”
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h e av y metal Previous spread: In a kitchen in a converted church in Sydney, Australia, Hancock Architects designed a custom range hood electroplated with 23-karat gold. Opposite top: The center island is Calacatta marble. Opposite bottom: Custom banquettes line the bar area. Clockwise from top right: The apartment is located in a 140-year-old sandstone church. Marble elements carry over into the living room. Stools by Leon Ransmeier provide extra seating.
Tanya Hancock had been in the architecture business for 20 years when a client came to her with a relatively standard request: His Sydney, Australia, apartment was in need of a facelift. The not-so-standard part? It was located in a 140-year-old church. The client wanted to use the 3,400-square-foot, fivelevel apartment as a getaway from his intense career as a corporate advisor, a personal refuge where he could relax and enjoy life with his partner and adult son. The church had been deconsecrated in 1989, and the nave, chancel, and vestry converted into four residences shortly after. But this four-bedroom unit had a glaring flaw: the kitchen. “It was tiny, not suited to the scale of the architectural features of the church. Tucked away in the corner, it was U-shape and got congested easily,” says Hancock, who founded her namesake firm in 2003. From the outset, Hancock had to factor in the former church’s heritage status. She sought to take the design in an ultra-modern direction but because of the building’s provenance, centuries-old elements like exposed sandstone and steel windows would need to be preserved. Rather than balk at the inconvenience, Hancock looked to the building’s past for inspiration. “The golden sandstone details provided the tones of the materials we would use,” Hancock says. “We chose a base of neutral gray with gold accents, which complemented and accentuated the original fabric of the church.” BESTOFK&B.19
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As for the client, he had only one request: an enormous center kitchen island, which Hancock realized with dramatic slabs of veined Calacatta marble. This is also where she introduced gilding, electroplating the island’s steel sides with 23-karat gold sealed with a clear lacquer. That finish appears again over the cooktop, where a custom gilded range hood commands attention. Two volumes of sleek cabinetry coated in pale-gray polyurethane flank the stove. The right-hand volume houses dual ovens plus refrigeration and freezing units craftily disguised as cabinets. Off to one side, an intimate seating nook by the bar is outfitted with custom benches, ideal for informal gatherings and before-dinner drinks. Here, the shimmering backsplash is tinted stainless steel, while top cabinets are inlaid with intricate polished-brass mesh. A sandstone-framed window keeps this area amply lit during the day, but don’t be fooled by its aged appearance: This window, and one other in the kitchen, were added by Hancock during renovations. They’re exact replicas of original fenestration located directly overhead. Throughout the kitchen, old and new are bridged by Hancock’s considered design. “We wanted a kitchen that was proportional and fitting to the old church, while also constituting a point of difference,” Hancock says. “It had to be impressive, functional, and encapsulate a sense of elegance and style.” Check, check, and check.
FROM FRONT DELTA LIGHT THROUGH INLITE: LINEAR LIGHT (KITCHEN). HAY THROUGH CULT DESIGN: STOOLS. MIELE: OVENS, WARMING DRAWER. BARAZZA: COOKTOP. FRANKE: SINK FITTINGS. OLIVERI: SINK. SOUTH PACIFIC FABRICS: CUSHION UPHOLSTERY (BAR). RIMEX METALS: STEEL BACKSPLASH. GREGORY CROXFORD LIVING THROUGH THE ENGLISH TAPWARE COMPANY: CABINET MESH. ABEY AUSTRALIA: SINK. ASTRA WALKER: FAUCET. INSTYLE CONTRACT TEXTILES: WALLPAPER (LIVING ROOM). THROUGHOUT NU SPACE: CUSTOM BENCHES, CABINETRY FINISHING. ALL METAL PROJECTS: ELECTROPLATING. WINNING APPLIANCES: APPLIANCE RETAILER. NEFIKO MARBLE: STONE SUPPLIER.
Top: Only one element from the 1990s renovation remains, the porcelain floor. Bottom: A new sandstoneframed window recalls the facade; cabinets in the bar area are inlaid with polished-brass mesh.
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Go for winning gold… ...with Narcis Ronde by Xavier Dupuis’s brand Bassines. The circular sinks by Laurent Besseas revisit the old-fashioned basin, turning it into a contemporary object that pays tribute to its sole component: metal. The fine stainless-steel rim—17 inches in diameter—lends delicacy, while the copper, black titanium, or brass PVD coating, a technique borrowed from the aeronautical industry, renders the surface seven times harder than usual and permanently scratch-resistant. For added flair, use a contrasting finish on the stopper or, for hospitality projects, have it engraved with the hotel or restaurant moniker. bassines.com
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the shape of water Architect David Jameson’s house in Bethesda, Maryland, evokes childhood memories of vapor rising from a dark pond
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It started with a poplar tree. Architect David Jameson and his family had been happily ensconced in a Midcentury Modernist house in Bethesda, Maryland, when disaster struck—or providence intervened. While on a ski trip in Utah, Jameson got a phone call from a neighbor. “There’s a tree on your house,” he informed the vacationing architect. An ice storm had felled a large poplar, which crushed the building. Jameson knew that he would have to build an entirely new home. Jameson is no stranger to formalist invention: He once designed a house based on the molecular structure of salt. But in reimagining his own home, he decided to let experiential qualities drive the design—form following emotion, not just function. The process led Jameson to rekindle childhood memories of a pond near his family home in rural Maryland. “It was mysterious and murky,” Jameson recalls. “I wanted to create something that captured the ephemeral qualities of water—like the memory of steam or fog rising off the pond.” Aptly, Jameson christened the property “Vapor House.” The five-bedroom, 7,000-square-foot residence offers two personalities: one public, one private. Solid panels of rippling black stainless steel, arranged in a running bond pattern that suggests oversized metallic bricks, clad the
h e av y metal Previous spread: The facade of architect David Jameson’s house in Bethesda, Maryland, is roughhewn stainless steel. Top: A welded steel staircase floats dramatically in the double-height cedar-clad entry hall. Bottom: The family room features a Vilhelm Lauritzen sofa, a Flemming Lassen lounge chair and ottoman, a pair of Finn Juhl Pelican chairs, and a Poul Kjaerholm daybed; the breakfast table, surrounded by Hans Wegner chairs, is by Ru Amagasu, George Nakashima’s grandson. Opposite: The kitchen, which has a 22-foot-high ceiling, features custom lacquered cabinetry resembling waxed steel and a marble backsplash.
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outward-facing exterior of the house. On the private back side of the house, taut expanses of floor-to-ceiling glass overlook a pool. It’s not a pure courtyard plan; two- and three-story glass boxes wind around the pool, stepping back and cantilevering out in a lively, organic flow. To craft panels that would bring to life light playing off water, Jameson worked with Zahner, a Kansas City–based metal fabrication company known for its work with a global who’swho of architects. The rippled texture was created by pressing stainless steel into metal molds, while a specialist coating imbues the panels with their silvery-black luster. Like the surface of a dark-bottomed pond, the metal reflects the surrounding landscape. Inside, solid-sawn sapele (a kind of African mahogany) wraps steel columns. In contrast,
kitchen’s hand-troweled marble-plaster walls and the asymmetrical pattern of a book-matched marble backsplash. “Scarpa is one of my dudes,” Jameson says. “In his work, the hand of the artisan is everywhere.” Just as the eye of a thoughtful and meticulous architect is evident everywhere in the Vapor House. FROM FRONT BRDR. PETERSEN: SOFA (FAMILY ROOM). FINN JUHL: ARMCHAIRS. FLEMMING LASSEN: LOUNGE CHAIR, OTTOMAN. FRITZ HANSEN: DAYBED. RU AMAGASU: BREAKFAST TABLE. THROUGH WRIGHT: DINING CHAIRS. LEWIS AQUATECH: CUSTOM POOL. BOFFI: MARBLE BACKSPLASH (KITCHEN), ISLAND MATERIAL, SINK FITTINGS, CUSTOM CABINETRY (KITCHEN, MASTER BATH, CHILD’S ROOM), SHOWER POST (POOL HOUSE). MICROMOSAICO: WALL TILE (MASTER BATH). FANTINI: SHOWER FITTINGS. THROUGHOUT LUCIFER LIGHTING COMPANY: RECESSED LIGHTING. RIMEX METALS: FASCIA CLADDING. STONE SOURCE: PAVING, FLOOR TILE. TRADEWOOD WINDOWS & DOORS: WINDOW WALLS. TW PERRY: CEDAR CLADDING. ZAHNER: STAINLESS STEEL CLADDING. ALLY DC: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.
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Jameson clad walls and ceilings in unfinished cedar, creating an interplay between refined and raw elements. “The cedar is left the way it came out of the lumber yard. You can see rotary saw marks,” Jameson says. “There’s a machined part to the house and an organic part.” That duality also speaks to Jameson’s admiration of Italian Modernist Carlo Scarpa’s interplay of precision and craft, visible here in the Opposite: The ground-glass tiles of the master bath’s shower wall, which features Carlo Scarpa–reminiscent showerheads by Franco Sargiani, were crafted from recycled computer monitors. Top: The pool house shower features custom rippled and bead-blasted stainless-steel wall panels and a Marcel Wanders shower post. Center: The living room’s lounge chair, folding stool, sofa, and coffee table are all by Kjaerholm. Bottom: African mahogany wraps structural columns and window frames in a child’s room.
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Messana O’Rorke thinks inside the box for a West Village studio in New York
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Even luxury can come in small packages. Take this 430-square-foot studio in the West Village. Although it’s situated inside a standard white-brick co-op from the late 1950s, its location and penthouse views that stretch to the Hudson River compensate for the building’s lack of curb appeal. But everything in the apartment had to go. So in walked Messana O’Rorke. “The kitchen had been renovated at some point,” Brian Messana says. “By which I mean new Home Depot cabinetry had been installed.” And the bathroom was just the way it was when the original tenants moved in last century. But Messana and Toby O’Rorke saw the potential right away. Since founding their firm in 1996, the architects have been refining an essentialism that provides visual stimulation through compelling materials and meticulous construction. “We’ve been working with the idea of living with space-defining volumes that you move through,” Messana continues. Rethinking the classic four-poster, they
devised a 7-foot cube containing a queen-size platform bed with built-in storage, which they inserted in the living area where it floats free of the surrounding walls. Inspired by jewelry caskets and steamer trunks, the hinged box is clad in unlacquered brass panels and lined with gray-dyed cowhide. “It’s tactile,” Messana says. “Warm and enclosing.”
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Previous spread: In a New York studio apartment by Messana O’Rorke, the queen-size bed is contained in a cube clad in unlacquered brass that will patinate over time. Top: In the living area, a 65-inch TV is embedded in custom panels of engineered fumed European oak, which conceal storage. Bottom, from left: Lined in dyed Italian cowhide, the hinged sleeping volume opens on three sides. Poul Kjærholm chairs and an Antonio Citterio sofa gather before the Carrara marble– appointed kitchenette.
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The rest of the studio’s exquisite palette is composed almost entirely of oak and Italian marble. The former appears fronting the walls of storage that flank the whole space and as wide floor planks throughout—except in the bathroom, where Carrara Gioia Venatino marble forms the envelope and the extra-long vanity (and brass reappears in the sink and shower fittings). The stone makes a second showing as the backsplash in the living area’s kitchenette, which can be hidden behind bifold doors once meal prep has finished. That’s when the nubuck Poul Kjærholm lounge chairs and the Antonio Citterio sofa upholstered in cashmere-wool really stand out. This may be micro-living, but it has big impact. FROM FRONT AREAWARE: PIGGY BANK (HALL). KYLE BUNTING: CUSTOM PANEL UPHOLSTERY (SLEEPING AREA). B&B ITALIA: PILLOWS. AREA: BEDDING. FRITZ HANSEN THROUGH SUITE NY: COCKTAIL TABLE, CHAIRS (LIVING AREA). ARONSON’S: CUSTOM RUG. MAXALTO: SOFA. SAMSUNG: TV. MIELE: COOKTOP, OVEN (KITCHENETTE). TOTO: TOILET (BATHROOM). GEBERIT: TOILET FLUSH. VOLA THROUGH AF NEW YORK: SHOWER FITTINGS, SINK FITTINGS. THROUGHOUT LV WOOD: CUSTOM CABINETRY, CUSTOM WALL PANELING, CUSTOM FLOORING. STONE SOURCE: MARBLE. ZEROLUX LIGHTING DESIGN: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. M.A. RUBIANO: MEP. UC GROUP: WOODWORK, GENERAL CONTRACTOR.
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Opposite, from top: White oak floorÂboards, 9 inches wide, run through the apartment. Arne Jacobsen brass fittings outfit the bathroom. Right: A 5252A showerhead by Teit Weylandt serves its glassfronted stall.
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Interiors wow in a rainbow of hues
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coming ’round Pascali Semerdjian Arquitetos gives a 1970s São Paulo, Brazil, apartment updated retro flair
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Previous spread: In a São Paulo, Brazil, apartment by Pascali Semerdjian Arquitetos, the daughter’s bathroom gets a jolt of color via the vanity’s quartz composite countertop. Clockwise from bottom left: Flooring in the kitchen is cement composite. A Jean Prouvé armchair backs up to a painting by Bruno Dunley in the TV room. Carrara marble animates the master bathroom, where copper troughs flank the double vanity. Sofas in the living room are custom, as is the freijo bookcase.
The unassuming glass facade could easily pass as an office building. But the 1970s structure in Jardins, an upscale neighborhood in São Paulo, Brazil, is actually a residential high-rise housing 30 window-wrapped apartments. Among them is a 4,100-square-foot aerie recently remodeled for a young family by local firm Pascali Semerdjian Arquitetos. This is Sarkis Semerdjian and Domingos Pascali’s second residential commission from the couple. “The husband and wife were upgrading to a bigger space for their growing brood,” Semerdjian explains. Two needs in particular guided the design. The first was to accommodate an extensive book collection. The second was to partition the sprawling but low-ceilinged living area. A single bold gesture achieved both aims: a curvaceous full-height double-sided bookcase that divides the main space roughly in half, cordoning off the library and a TV nook from the main sitting area. The unit’s vertical fins are crafted of freijo, a teaklike hardwood native to Brazil, and its shelves are copper, one of several places the warm metal enters the palette. A curated array of tomes, treasured objects, and ceramics line the shelves. “The bookcase has become the spirit of the whole project,” Semerdjian says. “We strive to conceive one strong element that makes a space memorable.” Timber accents form a unifying thread throughout the four-bedroom apartment. The reddish-hued freijo was also used for the master suite’s headboard, while vertical slats of the same material clad walls in the breakfast and powder rooms. “We used a lot of wood,” Semerdjian admits, “not only for its local abundance and cozy quality but also because we all just love it.” Contrasting the woodsy notes are strategic expanses of concrete, like the sunken “rug” inset into the living area’s floor of peroba, another Brazilian species, to create a sort of room within a room. Copper reoccurs in the master bathroom, where it forms a pair of ceiling-hung troughs. “We used metal in a discreet way, like jewelry,” Pascali asserts.
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“Contrasting the woodsy notes are strategic expanses of concrete, like the sunken ‘rug’ inset into the living area’ s floor of peroba”
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Furnishings are a mélange of Brazilian classics and international icons. A tentacular Bertjan Pot pendant fixture levitates above a walnut dining table by Oscar Tusquets Blanca. The TV room juxtaposes a pair of architectonic Jean Prouvé lounge chairs with a squishy sofa by Diesel. Charles and Ray Eames hobnob with Pedro Useche in the master bedroom. The homeowners’ collection of paintings and photographs includes works by such contemporary Brazilian talents as Bruno Dunley and Leticia Ramos that pop against the neutral backdrop. Other than the art, the main jolts of color are relegated to secondary spaces. A pale pistachio cement composite lines the kitchen floor, while, in the powder room, guests wash up at a sculptural sink slicked with electric lime automotive paint. It’s the scheme’s balance of fun and function, elegance and quirk, that makes it so utterly fitting for this young family on the move. FROM FRONT SILESTONE: CUSTOM VANITY MATERIAL (DAUGHTER’S BATHROOM), FLOORING (POWDER ROOM). DECA: SINKS, SINK FITTINGS (BATHROOMS), TOILET (POWDER ROOM). DU PONT: COUNTER MATERIAL (KITCHEN). GENERAL ELECTRIC COMPANY: WINE COOLER. CASA FRANCEZA: FLOORING. OVO: STOOLS. MOROSO: SOFA (TV ROOM). VITRA: CHAIR. FLOS: LAMP. FOSCARINI: TABLE LAMPS (LIVING AREA). THROUGH DPOT: CHAIRS. THROUGHOUT ARTHUR DECOR: CUSTOM CURTAINS. LA LAMPE: LIGHTING CONSULTANT. ORNARE; ARALI MÓVEIS; MÓVEIS E DECORAÇÕES RUSSO; PLANCUS: WOODWORK. DI MÁRMORE: STONEWORK. DIX ARTE E METAL: METALWORK. TRESUNO: CONCRETE WORK. OSCAR ONO: FLOORING CONTRACTOR. LAER: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER, MEP, CIVIL ENGINEER, GENERAL CONTRACTOR.
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earning his stripes SABO Project invigorates a fashion forecaster’s Paris apartment with a cheerful array of hues
c o lor story text: georgina mcwhirter photography: alex delaunay
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C O L O R story Previous spread: The SABO Project–designed apartment of a fashion forecaster features a stainless-steel kitchen countertop welded on-site. Bottom: Delaunay made numerous mock-ups of the kitchen floor to get the color sequence just so. Opposite: A cheerful array of 6-inch-wide rubber stripes—25 in all—covers the final floor.
SABO may be short for sabotage, but in this case, it’s not the destructive kind. “It’s positive! It’s about challenging the status quo,” says SABO Project founder and principal Alex Delaunay. The name also incorporates the acronym for Super Architecture Beyond Object. Clearly the architect, who toggles between Paris and Brooklyn, New York, likes to think outside the box. Which is just what he did when renovating a 775square-foot apartment in a century-old building in the Parisian neighborhood of Montmartre. Plants sprout from one wall, light seems to drip from the ceiling, and the floor of the otherwise white-on-white kitchen is a veritable rainbow. “I was watching an HGTV show in which the designer said floors should recede into the background, and it made me think, but why?” says the architect. He rebelled against such received wisdom by installing whimsical stripes of rubber—in 14 colors—underfoot. The chromatic treatment was also fitting for Delaunay’s client, Caroline Beillerot, a fashion forecaster: “She’s always flipping through material swatches,” the architect explains. 50
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“I was watching an HGTV show in which the designer said floors should recede into the background, and it made me think, but why?”
c o l o r story Delaunay made the most of the apartment’s uneven walls, slanted roofline, and awkward niches by erecting custom storage built-ins slicked with glossy white paint. The most monumental is the living room’s walkin closet, concealing a desk behind piano-hinge doors. One section of the unit has a Narnia-esque twist in that it can be accessed from both the living room and the bathroom on the other side. Staggering up the closet’s side is an alternatetread stair leading to the guest loft. “A full staircase would have been almost pompous for a small mezzanine,” Delaunay explains. “I wanted it to be beautiful— since stairs are part of the identity of Montmartre—but also to almost disappear into the cabinetry.” (“Alex organized and rationalized like a psychologist,” marvels the client.) Top: The penthouse apartment is tucked under a zinc mansard roof. Bottom: Off-the-shelf planters affixed to the same rubber used for flooring—this time in white—form a custom vertical garden. Opposite top: A custom MDF storage unit adjacent to the staircase hides a closet and desk in the living room, where midcentury teak-veneer chairs by Hans Bellmann pull up to a contemporary oak-topped dining table by Roderick Fry. Opposite bottom: The staircase leading to the lofted guest room integrates storage, accessible from within the adjacent closet.
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On one end of the built-in, a yellow-painted door leads to the kitchen and the adjacent bathroom, the latter enclosed in a clerestory of sanded glass to take advantage of the skylight above. By day, the glass filters sunshine through the entire apartment; in the evening, the bathroom transforms into a supersized lantern, controlled by remote. With a feature this eye catching— and illuminating—there’s no need for fancy pendants. Delaunay already thought of everything. FROM FRONT DALSOUPLE DALHAUS RUBBER WORKS: FLOOR TILE (KITCHEN). INOX.FR: CUSTOM COUNTERTOP. ELECTROLUX: STOVETOP. BAZAR DE L’ÉLECTRICITÉ: LIGHT BULBS. WHIRLPOOL: OVENS. BOSKKE: PLANTERS. HAY: STOOLS (KITCHEN), TRAYS (LIVING AREA). HERMAN MILLER: COAT RACK (KITCHEN), ROCKERS, COFFEE TABLE (LIVING AREA). MOAROOM: DINING TABLE. THROUGHOUT TOLLENS: PAINT. PRESTIGE DU BÂTIMENT: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.
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THE MONOGRAM MINIMALIST COLLECTION
DOW N TO T H E L AST DE TAI L At Monogram, it’s not just one detail, it’s many. When you put them all together, you create appliances that look, feel and perform as if they were designed perfectly for you.
When it comes to creating a sophisticated kitchen, every detail counts. That’s why the leading luxury brands are building their reputations— and their appliances—with a renewed focus on craftsmanship and engineering. Monogram recently unveiled two new collections that are as distinct as they are impressive. The Statement Collection features edge-to-edge handles, polished stainless steel and hand finished edges to convey a sense of refined beauty. A signature large window and substantial knobs unify the overall design. Monogram’s Minimalist Collection is focused on creating a contemporary yet functional aesthetic. The streamlined design and precisely machined metals combined with LCD screens and push-toopen doors will make a lasting impression.
A customizable, panel-ready treatment modiďŹ es Monogram appliances to elegantly harmonize with custom cabinetry and create a seamless integration. Altogether, luxury appliances that focus on the smallest details are elevating everything in the kitchen.
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Previous spread top: The Monogram Minimalist Collection Previous spread bottom, from left: Integrated refrigeration, edge-to-edge handles & sapphire glass knobs Opposite top: The Monogram Statement Collection Opposite middle: Custom snakeskin custom dishwasher exterior Opposite bottom, from left: Colorful LCD touchscreen and hidden butler’s pantry appliances Top: Brass-accented range knobs Bottom: Integrated refrigeration capabilities
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net-zero heroes CO Adaptive Architecture turns a 100-year-old Brooklyn, New York, brownstone into an energy-efficient Passive House
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“The contrast between old and new is what gives the renovation its charm” c o l o r story
Previous spread: CO Adaptive installed a custom plywood pegboard above the kitchen sink to create modular shelving in a Brooklyn brownstone—winning a NYCxDesign award in the Kitchen & Bath category in the process. Top: The kitchen was expanded to the width of the house and original plaster detailing retained and restored. Bottom, from left: Custom tempered glass imparts a greenish tint to the shower door in the master bathroom. A vintage Folke Ohlsson sofa and a ceiling fixture in the style of Serge Mouille enliven the living room. Opposite: Michael Thonet’s bentwood dining chairs gather around a walnut table by Mash Studios.
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On a tree-lined block in Brooklyn’s Stuyvesant Heights, among the rows of historic New York brownstones, one building is not like the others. It’s the home of CO Adaptive Architecture principals Ruth Mandl and Bobby Johnston, who just completed a multiyear project to convert the century-old dwelling—originally built as a family residence in 1889—into an energy-efficient Passive House. The concept of a “passive” home is simple: reduce a building’s energy consumption for heating and cooling by almost 90 percent. The structure becomes an impermeable envelope (with a dedicated fresh-air system for ventilation), insulating the interior from changes in the weather to maintain a comfortable temperature year-round. The only necessary supplemental heat and cooling comes from an electric heat pump, bringing the home’s total energy use low enough to be supplied entirely by solar panels installed on the roof. To preserve the brownstone’s historic facade, insulation was applied only to the inside of the structure. “We wanted to prepare the building for the future without losing its original beauty,” Mandl says. “The contrast between old and new is what gives the renovation its charm.” The 2,100-square-foot interior was full of details worth preserving, too.
Existing woodwork was removed, sanded, and reinstalled or donated to Big Reuse, a non-profit building materials recycler. Plaster details were restored and any that were not salvageable, such as an elaborate ceiling medallion, painstakingly recreated. One of the few areas where the original floor plan has been significantly modified is the kitchen, now expanded to the width of the house. The added openness allows for a multifunctional space where the family can cook, eat, entertain, play, and work. “We wanted it to feel livable and comfortable,” Johnston says. The fact that heat from cooking contributes to warming the building in the winter gives the room added importance. “It’s become the hearth of our home.” A custom plywood pegboard wall brings flexible shelving to the space and ties the kitchen to the plywood detailing elsewhere in the house (see the new window and door surrounds). The lighting is flexible too; it can be set bright for food preparation, then dimmed for a meal. Since cooking is done on an electric induction cooktop embedded in the concrete-look counter, and the heating system is all-electric too, it has been possible to cap the gas to the building entirely. The IKEA cabinets are
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Top: Minimalist fittings by Arne Jacobsen are embedded in the kitchen’s custom plywood pegboard. Center: A spun-brass sconce illuminates the master bedroom. Bottom: Porcelain tile by Raw Edges adds a pop of color in the powder room.
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spiced up with mint-green fronts, the color suggesting nature, befitting the couple’s eco-friendly philosophy. It’s a bright and modern look that contrasts with the town house’s classic period facade. Mandl’s first experience with Passive Houses came a decade ago in helping redesign her parents’ house in her native Austria. Since then, she’s sought to implement the movement’s principles in as much of CO Adaptive’s work as possible. Part of her own Passive House project meant educating others as well. To that end, the basement level was made into a two-bedroom guest apartment for family, friends, and short-term rentals. FROM FRONT REFORM: CABINET FRONTS (KITCHEN). IKEA: CABINET BASES. CAESARSTONE: COUNTER MATERIAL. STICKBULB: LINEAR FIXTURE. HAY: PEGBOARD TASK LIGHTS. GE MONOGRAM: STOVE TOP. LA PAVONI: COFFEE MACHINE. MASH STUDIOS: DINING TABLE. DESIGN WITHIN REACH: CHAIRS. THROUGH THE FUTURE PERFECT: PENDANT FIXTURES. THROUGH MODE MODERNE: SOFA, COFFEE TABLE (LIVING ROOM). FRANCE & SØN: CHANDELIER. HYDE PARK MOULDINGS: CUSTOM CROWN MOLDINGS. ALLIED MAKER: SCONCE (BEDROOM). DALTILE: FLOOR TILE (BATHROOM). BRIZO: SHOWER FITTINGS. KOHLER CO.: DRAIN. DURAVIT: MIRRORED CABINET, SINK, TUB, SHOWER TRAY (BATHROOM), TOILET, SINK (POWDER ROOM). GEBERIT: FLUSH PLATE (POWDER ROOM). MUTINA: FLOOR TILE. THROUGHOUT VOLA: SINK FITTINGS. MADERA: FLOORBOARDS. V&P ALTITUDE CORP: GLASS. OPTIWIN: WINDOWS, DOORS. LB GENERAL CONTRACTING: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.
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Meta breaks new ground... ...once again. Released by Dornbracht in 1995, the simple single-lever brass mixer by Sieger Design gets even more refined. Updates to the classic style include an integrated aerator and finer spout. Meta Slim sports a significantly thinner lever. And Meta Pure adds a progressive cartridge with a rotary control allowing the user to gently click between cold, warm, and hot. But the story doesn’t stop there. Select product types can be specified in fresh new hues: yellow, light rose, and pastel green among them. dornbracht.com
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graphic eye In a loft in Mechelen, Belgium, Dries Otten’s artful kitchen evokes an abstract canvas
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c o l o r story Previous spread: A Mechelen, Belgium, loft by Dries Otten has custom kitchen cabinetry with fronts in painted plywood. Top: A circular bedroom was a last-minute insertion into the open-plan loft. Bottom left: Perforated particleboard hides a ventilation duct. Bottom right: The kitchen counter is high-pressure laminate and the polyethylene-slab inset surrounding the sink doubles as a cutting board; the Willy van der Meeren table is vintage.
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Growing up near Antwerp, Begium, Dries Otten would open both windows of his bedroom in wintertime and, in the bitter cold, paint himself into a trance. That love of painting would lead Otten to earn a master’s in art restoration. “But it was terribly boring,” he recalls. “And the better you were at your job, the less visible your work.” Not content to simply preserve the creations of others, he went on to earn a master’s in interior architecture and in 2009 opened his namesake studio, focusing on bold, colorful spaces composed rather like abstract canvases. Allusions to De Stijl, Abstract Expressionism, and Memphis recur. In an Antwerp kitchen, for instance, he painted a backsplash in geometries inspired by a Jozef Peeters mural from 1920. His favor-
ite color, a mid-tone gray-blue, he describes as Le Corbusier in feel. “We exist in a continuous line,” Otten says. “To me it would be weird to design without referencing history.” Otten favors unassuming materials. (He has been known to conceal the hodgepodge contents of open cupboards with a skirt of cheap-and-cheerful fabric.) Affordable perforated particleboard crops up time and again. “I hate pretension,” he says, and eschews anything showy or gratuitous. Otten’s ethos of bold simplicity is readily apparent throughout a recent 1,600-square-foot open-plan loft in a converted factory in the small Belgian city of Mechelen. Its statement move in the kitchen is arguably its most workaday: a thick slab of humble green plastic,
set into the countertop, ingeniously surrounds the sink while doubling as a cutting board. You might think Otten would love modest plywood but now that the material is, as he puts it, “in every bar and pop-up,” he has started to move toward bright lacquer. So the custom kitchen cabinets have painted-ply fronts—color blocks that Otten, using his artist’s eye, has hung at staggered heights and varying depths on the white brick wall above the sink. The neighboring wall houses the refrigerator, oven, and other major appliances in a floor-to-ceiling grid of storage cabinetry that, he says, “slings through the space in one line.” While the unit is the epitome of rectilinearity, the uniform field of plain birch-veneer cupboard
“Floor-to-ceiling storage slings through the space in one line”
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Top: The bedroom is lit by a single industrial bulb. Center: A refrigerator, an oven, and shelving are concealed by birch-veneered MDF cabinetry in the kitchen. Bottom: The cylindrical partition enclosing the bedroom is composed of painted cardboard tubes and plywood.
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fronts is disrupted by the occasional one in pale pink, turning what could have been a straightforward installation into a work of graphic art. Echoing this theme, the study’s wallmounted wood shelf is a long, straight, white line interrupted by a bold scarlet box—a display case for Lego miniatures of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Fallingwater and Le Corbusier’s Villa Savoye. Should the homeowners get fed up with the color of these elements, Otten has an easy solution: simply repaint. There’s a sense of fun throughout the residence, of not taking itself too seriously. To wit, the loft’s new bedroom-inthe-round—a reinterpretation of the cylindrical sleeping chamber in Juliaan Lampen’s 1972 Van Wassenhove house in nearby Sint-Martens-Latem—which is made of cardboard tubes painted white. It was a last-minute addition to the project, the architect divulges, and it looks like fluffy marshmallow or whipped cream, he adds with a grin. FROM FRONT AHREND: BLACK CHAIR (KITCHEN). BLANCO: SINK, SINK FITTINGS. FORMICA CORPORATION: COUNTER SURFACING. THROUGHOUT AKZONOBEL: PAINT.
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Muller Van Severen’s chromatic touch… ...updates standard IKEA cabinet fronts, for Danish manufacturer Reform. The Belgian designer-artist duo (Fien Muller is a photographer, Hannes Van Severen a sculptor) looked to Sol LeWitt murals for inspiration, as well as their own recent projects. Known for multihued cutting boards made of high-density polyethylene, the couple used the same material to create cabinet doors for their six-color Match system, which is available to ship worldwide. “We have always loved polyethylene,” says Fien. “It’s not a plastic with a cold, smooth surface; it has the appearance of candle wax.” After testing models to get the combinations of shades just right, they tempered the playful effect with hardware and kickplates in brass and countertops in white or cabernet-veined Calacatta Viola marble. reformcph.com
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refresh and reframe In Los Angeles, Standard Architecture reconfigures a 1920s residence into a minimalist take on the Spanish Colonial style text: edie cohen photography: benny chan/fotoworks
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s to n e age Previous spread: In a Los Angeles house by Standard Architecture, the kitchen island is Calacatta Borghini marble and stretches nearly 18 feet long. Opposite: Cabinets, treated to a coat of white lacquer, fairly blend into their surrounding walls. Top left: Danby marble slabs extend flush from the living room to the patio at the rear of the house. Top right: The bar area’s original coffered ceiling was discovered and restored; the bar proper is plated in mirror-polished brass. Bottom: Furnishings curated by Maine Design continue the serene and sculptural ethos of the interior architecture, where spaces segue seamlessly one to the other through arches and other portals.
Designed in the 1920s by noted architect Roland Coate, the Los Angeles residence in tony Bel-Air had seen better days. “The addition of moldings and decorations over the years had turned the original Spanish Colonial– style bones into something neoclassical,” Standard Architecture’s founding principal and partner Jeffrey Allsbrook explains. He and partner Silvia Kuhle stripped away excess inside and out to create a minimalist, abstracted take on the historic genre. Expansive windows and rows of pivot doors now offer views of the property’s ½-acre site and an adjacent golf course. By re-grading the rear garden, which overlooks the links, the architects were able to extend the groundfloor living room visually into the landscape. Inside, the vibe is sophisticated, light, and airy. Flooring is 11-inchwide white-oak boards or slabs of honed, vein-cut Danby marble—both providing a pleasing base for artful furnishings selected by Jason and Katie Maine of Maine Design. Sight lines through the newly flowing rooms come courtesy of Standard’s deep archways. A rhythmic trio of the arced portals establishes a sense of transition between the living area and the bar, where the
s to n e age Top: Floorboards are engineered white oak, each plank measuring 11 inches wide. Center: In one of the pair of master bathrooms, marble and rift-cut oak compose a vanity. Bottom: In the other, a frameless-glass shower enclosure is joined by an enameled-steel tub.
architects excavated and restored the coffered ceiling. Cocktails are served from a rectilinear composition of gleaming brass plates reminiscent of a Donald Judd sculpture. Anchoring the opposite end of the house is the 800-square-foot kitchen with a Calacatta Borghini marble island that stretches nearly 18 feet long. Allsbrook confides that both pieces took some convincing, but the clients ended up thrilled. (The project would go on to win an Interior Design Best of Year award in the Kitchen & Bath category.) Just as impactful is the Namibian marble cladding the wet zone of the upstairs master bathroom, one of a his-and-her pair. The stone’s quiet veining creates a pleasingly neutral backdrop—all the better to soak in the surrounding greenery through the frameless picture window. FROM FRONT MARTIN & CARTER: CUSTOM CABINETRY (KITCHEN), CUSTOM BRASS BAR (BAR AREA). VOLA: FAUCET (KITCHEN), SHOWER, SINK FITTINGS (BATHROOM). DELTALIGHT: CEILING FIXTURES (KITCHEN). DU PONT: WHITE COUNTER MATERIAL. THROUGH BALSAMO ANTIQUES: PLASTER SCULPTURE (LIVING AREA). JEAN DE MERRY: TABLE. SILVER STRAND: VANITY CABINET (BATHROOMS). KALDEWEI: TUB. THROUGHOUT MAINE DESIGN: INTERIOR FURNISHING CURATION. EASY MARBLE & TILE: STONE SUPPLIER. PERFEC FLOORS: FLOORBOARDS. ZUMTOBEL: COVE LIGHTING. INTENSE LIGHTING; COOPER LIGHTING: RECESSED CEILING FIXTURES. B&B DOORS AND WINDOWS: DOORS, WINDOWS. THE OFFICE OF GORDON L. POLON: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. GEOFF HACKETT BUILDING WORKSHOP: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.
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“Diamond’s marble surface is fragmented into a visual game of geometries”
Marble is cut like a gemstone… ...into striking triangular facets in Paolo Ulian and Moreno Ratti’s Diamond washbasin for Kreoo. Measuring 18 or 20 inches in diameter and 6 or 7 inches high, the basin is available from the maker in over two dozen marbles and quartzites that span the chromatic spectrum. Offered polished or matte, Diamond can be positioned business-as-usual flat on its base or tilted to perch on a side facet—a trick that lends visual lightness to the weighty material and dynamism to the bathroom. Through the Davani Group. thedavanigroup.com
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Previous spread: In New York’s West Village, two dark apartments were united by De-Spec to form a skylit triplex with white oak floors. Opposite, clockwise from top: A floating walkway leads to the master bedroom doorway framed in oak. The living room’s sectional sofa and ottoman are by Antonio Citterio and the lounge chairs are by Noé Duchaufour-Lawrance. Black quartzite clads the powder room. This page: White-oak stairs float over the kitchen, where countertops and the backsplash are honed white quartzite.
“I was looking to solve issues of urban life like lack of access to nature”
Convincing New Yorkers to sacrifice space is never easy. But De-Spec founder Farnaz Mansuri knows the power of a carefully judged amputation. In transforming two cramped apartments into a single airy triplex in the West Village, she proved that sacrificing a few feet can be the key to something much grander. Mansuri had already updated political consultant Bernard Whitman’s duplex when the studio apartment upstairs became available, offering the opportunity to turn the two spaces, each just 12 feet wide, into a 1,300square-foot oasis. The only fenestration in each apartment was a window that opened to the 1930 apartment building’s communal garden. “I was looking to solve issues of urban life like lack of access to nature,” Mansuri says. So the designer proposed an enticing idea: By punching skylights through the ceiling of the newly acquired apartment, Whitman and his partner, Constantin Mitides, a computer scientist, would be able to look up at the leafy block’s maple and elm trees while cooking. But to do so, Mansuri would have to open things up, which included creating a double-height garden-facing volume by slicing 9 feet off the second-level floor plate. “When we first saw how much she cut the floor back, we almost broke into tears,” Whitman recalls. But the tears were short-lived. Today, a cantilevered white-oak staircase rises through two additional apertures to link the three formerly disjointed levels, skillfully managing the competing demands of BESTOFK&B.19
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Top, from left: The exterior staircase is painted steel. In the master bedroom, Greta Magnusson Grossman sconces flank the custom bed. Bottom: Slabs of Pelle Grigio, a Chinese marble, line the master bathroom, and solid-surfacing forms the custom vanity. Opposite: The same marble clads the master bathroom’s shower stall with rain showerhead.
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circulation and habitation. “It doubled and tripled the value of the place—and I don’t just mean monetarily,” Whitman says. A kitchen counter is tucked neatly beneath the mid-level stairs: “The lowest part of the stair is solid, to accommodate undercounter cabinets,” Mansuri notes. “Above that, we took out the risers so light can flood down on the food prep area.” A leather-upholstered dining banquette juts into the newly created void, with a cozy living room nestled underneath, a few steps below the garden patio. The room’s seating is large-scale and curvaceous. (“I’m not afraid of oversize pieces in small spaces,” Mansuri concedes, “as long as they don’t have sharp corners.”) Volumes segue seamlessly one into the next and interiors read as a series of monochromatic white rooms with rich pockets of stony darkness. See the master bathroom, which appears carved out of striated Pelle Grigio marble, like a stone quarry. “The rule of thumb was: Materiality is not for decorative purposes; it’s to help you understand the space,” Mansuri says. LED sconces bounce light off the sleek architectural surfaces, while frosted-glass pendant fixtures above the dining area add depth to the volume. When viewed from the garden below, they appear like a constellation. In general, Mansuri avoided designing from a bird’s-eye point of view—“‘as seen from the roof,’ which is how architects typically work,” she notes—in favor of the ant’s perspective, from inside the house. “To me, design has to be a choreographed experience, from the moment of entry to the moment of exit.” FROM FRONT MINIMAL KITCHENS: CUSTOM CABINETRY (KITCHEN). GAGGENAU: OVENS. CEADESIGN: SINK FITTINGS. KOHLER CO.: SINK. DESIGN WITHIN REACH: CHAIRS (DINING AREA). EDELMAN: CUSTOM BENCH UPHOLSTERY. LUMIFER: PENDANT FIXTURE. B&B ITALIA: TABLE (DINING AREA), SECTIONAL, OTTOMAN, TRAY (LIVING ROOM). WASCO: CUSTOM SKYLIGHTS (STAIRWELL). ABC STONE: PANELING (POWDER ROOM). LIGNE ROSET: CHAIRS (LIVING ROOM). ARTEMIDE: SCONCES. RH: CHAIRS (PATIO). BROCHIER: HEADBOARD FABRIC (BEDROOM). STONE SOURCE: PANELING, FLOORING (BATHROOM). DORNBRACHT: SINK FITTINGS, TOWEL BAR, SHOWER FAUCET. LACAZA: SINK. EVANS & PAUL: CUSTOM VANITY. DU PONT: VANITY MATERIAL. ROBEM: MEDICINE CABINET. DURAVIT: TOILET. LINEA LIGHTS: SCONCE. HANSGROHE: SHOWERHEADS. CRISTINA RUBINETTERIE: RAIN SHOWERHEAD. THROUGHOUT WESTERN WINDOW SYSTEMS: CUSTOM DOORS, WINDOWS. TARANTINO CONSULTING GROUP: ENGINEER OF RECORD, MEP. CONNOLLY ENGINEERING: STRUCTURAL ENGINEER. GW MANUFACTURING; URBAN MILLWORK: WOODWORK. ALMONTE HOME IMPROVEMENTS: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.
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First impressions, though not foolproof, are often right on the mark. That certainly was the case when designers Aimee Wertepny and Jennifer Kranitz of Project Interiors initially met their client, Stefanie Schenk. “That famous Eames quote came to mind: ‘The details are not the details; they make the product,’” Kranitz says, recalling the colorful fur tassels on her new client’s handbag as well as her brass-studded heels. “I was intrigued and thought the project could go in a good direction; also, I wanted to know where she shops!” After raising their three children in a typical painted-clapboard house in Chicago’s Lakeview neighborhood, Stefanie and her husband, Jared, decided to demolish it and build a modernist structure that better reflected their style. They engaged architects Kevin Toukoumidis and Robert McFadden of dSpace Studio, who recommended Project Interiors for the interior design. Both firms share a progressive spirit that appealed to the clients. “We had lived for so long in a traditional space, and we really wanted this house to have surprising moments,” Stefanie says. Built at grade with no basement, the new 6,000-square-foot five-bedroom residence has a dramatic 9-foot-tall glass door that grants entry to a soaring foyer that flows into the double-height living area. Flooring throughout the main level is concrete, scored with angled lines to create a trapezoidal motif. “The pattern generates energy,” Toukoumidis says.
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“This house keeps unfolding; what’s fun is the discovery”
Previous spread: In a Chicago residence by dSpace Studio and Project Interiors, the folded-steel staircase connecting floors two and three is visible from the double-height living area, animated with artworks by Marlon Portales Cusett and Vladimir León Sagols. Opposite: A matte-black brass pendant fixture suspended from leather straps illuminates the open kitchen. Top: The dining room seats six on wool-upholstered Cédric Ragot chairs and more on a custom bench; above it is a painted-fabric triptych by Gina Dorough. Bottom left: A suspended brass sculpture by Gold Leaf Design Group sluices through the library floor. Bottom right: The kitchen backsplash is Orca marble.
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Top: In the master bedroom, a hand-blown glass pendant illuminates brass-inlaid rift-cut oak paneling. Center: Viewed from the second-floor deck, the courtyard side of the house has beveled apertures shaded with ipe louvers. Bottom: The master bathroom’s marbletop vanity meets walls in Venetian plaster. Opposite: In the same room, brass wall panels and porcelain flooring feature the same trapezoidal form.
As evidenced by their expansive contemporary art collection, the clients are also unafraid of color. In the dining room, for example, curvaceous chairs by Cédric Ragot are covered in blush wool mélange with a contrasting zipper detail. The hue reappears in the oak bar’s lacquered interior. Brass is another through-line. In the master suite, thin bands of the metal are laid into the bathroom’s porcelain-tile floor. Brass panels also line the tub niche, reflecting the sunshine that spills in through the skylight above. “This house keeps unfolding,” Kranitz notes. “What’s fun is the discovery.” The master suite boasts a double-sided fireplace that can also be enjoyed from the adjacent ipe deck, outfitted with a hot tub. “The indoor-outdoor experience here is truly extraordinary given the city location,” Toukoumidis says. Glass walls glide open to a courtyard—a lush space, planted with ornamental grasses—that boasts an outdoor kitchen and pergola. Slab-on-grade construction, which positions living areas and courtyard at exactly the same level, further promotes the easy rapport between the spaces. A couple who enjoys expressing themselves through fashion and art, the Schenks say it’s been rewarding to realize a house that reflects them so well. “The design is a little bit irreverent,” Stefanie enthuses. And unlike their rather nondescript former abode, the family’s new home makes a striking— and far more accurate—first impression. FROM FRONT ERNESTOMED: CABINETRY (KITCHEN). ANTOLINI: MARBLE. RUBN THROUGH TWENTYTWENTYONE: LINEAR PENDANT. DIRESCO: ISLAND COUNTERTOP. DORNBRACHT: SINK FITTINGS. NOIR: BAR STOOLS. ROCHE BOBOIS: CHAIRS (DINING ROOM). CARNEGIE FABRICS: DRAPERY FABRIC. REJUVENATION: CHANDELIER. C.SANCHEZ: CUSTOM BANQUETTE; HOLLY HUNT: FABRIC. CB2: LAMP, CHAIR (LIBRARY). C. SANCHEZ: CUSTOM BED, HEADBOARD (BEDROOM). LEUCOS: PENDANT FIXTURE. PINDLER: HEADBOARD FABRIC. POLLACK: PILLOW FABRIC. JAIPUR: RUG. PLANTERWORX: PLANTERS (EXTERIOR). VMZINC: ZINC PANELS. LEE LUMBER: IPE. TRESPA: RESIN PANELS. STUDIO BK: WALL TREATMENT (BATHROOM). PURE EDGE LIGHTING: SCONCES. CB2: MIRROR. WATERMARK: SINK AND TUB FITTINGS. TRANSCERAMICA: FLOOR TILE. APPARATUS: CHANDELIER. THROUGH RANDOLPH STREET MARKET: VINTAGE STOOL. SIGNATURE HARDWARE: TUB. THROUGHOUT BENJAMIN MOORE & CO.: PAINT. TERRAZZO + MARBLE SUPPLY: STONE SUPPLIER. UNILUX: DOOR, WINDOWS, CURTAIN WALL SYSTEM. EMERALD CONCRETE: CONCRETE FLOORING, PAVERS. RODE BROS: WOOD FLOORING. STUDIO41: KITCHEN/BATH SUPPLIER. RH: BEDDING. LG DEVELOPMENT GROUP: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.
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red and green Minarc’s principals repurpose materials—and make their own—for an eco-conscious Los Angeles home text: edie cohen photography: art gray
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Lawyers can be skilled at getting what they want. This Los Angeles house’s owners, married attorneys with a newborn, were intent on living super-green. Not finding an existing house that met their standards, the couple bought a ¼-acre lot and commissioned another husband-wife duo, Minarc principals Tryggvi Thorsteinsson and Erla Dögg Ingjaldsdóttir, to start from scratch. Built with recyclable, fire- and termite-proof prefab panels manufactured by a company that Thorsteinsson and Ingjaldsdóttir also founded, the 2,500-square-foot structure is sustainable to the max. It also indulges the owners’ love of food and wine. They often invite friends over for meals washed down by vintages from a 1,000-bottle cellar. “This house is basically an excuse for a kitchen,” Ingjaldsdóttir says. That kitchen is predominantly sustainable bamboo. On the main run of cabinets, it’s outlined with black recycled rubber, wrapping the top and sides. The island, meanwhile, is enfolded in a composite of quartz— “One of the most abundant materials on earth,” Thorsteinsson
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Previous spread: In a Los Angeles house by Minarc, the custom garage door is clad in scrap wood leftover from the kitchen counter. Clockwise from top right: Cement-board clads the garage facade. A photograph of an Icelandic glacier, printed on acrylic and backlit by LEDs, accompanies the kitchen sink; ingeniously, the bamboo bar stools push in to become panels of the kitchen island. The living room’s sofa is by Adriano Piazzesi.
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notes—but not just any quartz composite: This one is tomato red. Things cool off with a mural showing a glacier in Thorsteinsson and Ingjaldsdóttir’s native Iceland. Anyone hoping to perch at the island should look closely at its front panels, actually the backs of high stools that virtually disappear when pushed in. Furniture in the adjacent dining area maintains the clean aesthetic, as featherweight aluminum chairs by Frank Gehry surround a glass-topped table. Ditto for the living areas, both indoor and out. The latter boasts chaise longues manufactured from recycled milk jugs. Bathrooms overflow with eco consciousness. In the powder room, wood scraps stack up to form a vanity supporting a sink in recycled rubber. But for a truly back-to-nature experience, head to the master bathroom, where right next to the soaking tub you’ll find a lush plant wall. FROM FRONT DORNBRACHT: SINK FITTINGS (KITCHEN). MIELE: HOOD. GAGGENAU: COOKTOP, OVEN. SUB-ZERO: MICROWAVE. ATI LAMINATES: CUSTOM MURAL. ARKETIPO: SOFA (LIVING AREA). VOLA: SINK FITTINGS (BATHROOM). WETSTYLE: TUB. KWC: SHOWER FITTINGS (BATHROOM), SINK FITTINGS (POWDER ROOM). AAMSCO LIGHTING: LINEAR FIXTURES (BATHROOM, POWDER ROOM). FSB: TOWEL BAR (POWDER ROOM). RUBBISH: SINK. SUNBRELLA: CURTAIN FABRIC (EXTERIOR). THROUGHOUT MNMMOD: PREFAB STRUCTURAL PANELS. RESYSTA: SIDING. TERAGREN: BAMBOO. SMITH & FONG: BAMBOO PLYWOOD. COSENTINO: SOLIDSURFACING. METAL WINDOW CORP.: CUSTOM WINDOWS. C.W. HOWE PARTNERS: STRUCTURAL, CIVIL ENGINEER. CORE CONSTRUCTION: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.
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wo o d notes Opposite, clockwise from top left: The vanity in the master bathroom combines quartz composite and bamboo plywood. In the same room, a hydroponic plant wall joins troweled plaster. Planks of a polymer rice-husk composite form the veranda. Right: In the powder room, a sink in recycled rubber rests on a custom vanity constructed from wood scraps.
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high contrast I29 Interior Architects and Chris Collaris Architects evoke a dark/light duality in a summer residence in Vinkeveen, the Netherlands
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The summer home in Vinkeveense Plassen, a marshy area of lakes and narrow peninsulas in Vinkeveen, the Netherlands, was an 11-mile bicycle commute to Amsterdam—a breeze of a distance for many Dutch people. And its views were verdant and panoramic. But when I29 Interior Architects partners Jeroen Dellensen and Jasper Jansen were contacted by the owners to renovate the 80-year old residence, they viewed it as a tear-down, and instead teamed with Chris Collaris Architects to design a replacement. (Conveniently, Chris Collaris happens to maintain a desk in I29’s office and so was able to collaborate with the partners with utmost ease.) Strict height and size restrictions limited the footprint to a measly 600 square feet. But as Jansen puts it, “making quality projects is not, in our opinion, always about ‘the bigger the better.’” Working around their spatial constraints, the team suggested a simple yet powerful move: building four blocky pavilions around an alfresco courtyard—all on a single concrete slab—which allows for the near doubling of useable living space merely by opening two sets of sliding glass doors.
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“In a project this small, not one centimeter can go unused” Previous spread: A residence by I29 Interior Architects and Chris Collaris Architects in Vinkeveen, the Netherlands, comprises a quartet of interconnected volumes clad in black-waxed pine planks. Opposite, clockwise from top: A single concrete slab runs throughout the four volumes, inside and out. More than half the white-oak kitchen cabinetry is boldly stained black. A white-oak storage unit divides two bedrooms. This page: In the outdoor shower, a ladder for towels is powdercoated steel.
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“In a project this small, not one centimeter can go unused,” Dellensen notes. The adjoining boxes also open one to the next, with unique ceiling heights to mark the progression spatially: from the smallest volume containing the entry, to the kitchen and dining pavilion, to the living area, and finally to the four bedrooms, stacked on two levels. The structures were positioned in relation to views of the nearby lake and the orientation of the sun. Throughout, beamed ceilings are painted white. Flooring is polished concrete. In the kitchen, some cabinetry is white oak, but more than half is stained black. The bold palette continues on the exteriors, the unapologetically modern facades clad in pine planks that have been waxed black for weather resistance. Even the window frames and flat roofline are hidden behind the wood boards. “What’s surprised me,” Jansen says, “is how well they blend with nature.” FROM FRONT HAY: SECTIONAL (LIVING AREA), TABLE (KITCHEN). TOSSB: SCONCES (LIVING AREA). KEMIE: COUNTERTOP (KITCHEN). SHINNOKI: CABINET FRONTS. SIEMENS: APPLIANCES. GROHE: SHOWER, SHOWER FITTINGS (OUTDOOR). THROUGHOUT FORECO: WOOD SIDING. BETON REFORM: CONCRETE FLOORING. KREON: SPOTLIGHTS. JUNG: SWITCH PLATES. LG HAUSYS: SOLID SURFACING. DE ZILVERLINDE; FRANK HEILIGERS: LANDSCAPE DESIGNERS. SIMON SINTENIE: WOODWORK. HAGOORT BOUW: GENERAL CONTRACTOR.
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...and functional work horses, too. Arclinea taps into the zeitgeist with solutions to both needs. Antonio Citterio’s Lignum et Lapis and Convivium are customizable mixed-media islands combining stone and wood. The guest-facing showpieces are designed to work in tandem with his hidden kitchen system Pocket, made-to-measure wall storage that hides equipment, pantries, and shelves behind closed doors, and Modus, folding doors that come in a range of refined timbers such as teak, walnut, chestnut, oak, and elm. At different times of the day, the functional (read: messy!) elements of the kitchen can disappear behind the operable architectural walls, leaving the sculptural islands star of the show. arclinea.com
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everybody welcome An Ontario home by Williamson Williamson is open in all senses
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For a certain anesthesiologist in Ontario, there was never any doubt. He always knew that he would take care of his mom and dad in their old age. When the time came, they moved into the basement of the bungalow that he shared with a social worker, the man he planned to marry. After an initial adjustment period, they truly became a family. The basement stairs, however, became a problem. So the couple decided to build a new home. They found a teardown in Ancaster, near Lake Ontario and the anesthesiologist’s practice. The 1⁄2-acre lot, which backs onto a conservation area, was unusually wide.
A search for an architect led the couple to another couple, Betsy and Shane Williamson of the firm Williamson Williamson. They selected cedar for the exterior, echoing the cedar trees that grow there, plus slabs of limestone from a local quarry. Between the slabs, the horizontal joints are raked deep, a detail inspired by the brickwork of Frank Lloyd Wright’s Martin House in Buffalo. “Everything was designed to be accessible,” Shane Williamson notes. The self-sufficient in-law apartment is on the ground floor of one wing of the L-shape, 3,800-square-foot structure. Perpendicular, the other wing contains the open plan
Previous spread, from left: In an Ancaster, Ontario, residence by Williamson Williamson, the main kitchen has an oiled-oak island topped in quartz composite. Riftsawn oak veneers the corkscrew stair’s plywood balustrade. Opposite: A Calacatta marble backsplash rises behind custom cabinets with doors of backpainted glass; the cove lighting is LED strips, lensed to avoid reflections of the source. Top: The staircase links the ground floor, with communal living areas and a self-sufficient in-law apartment, to the top-floor master suite above and the basement. Center: The master bedroom cantilevers 16 feet beyond the living area. Bottom: The latter’s chair is by Sauerbruch Hutton.
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living, dining, and kitchen zone, shared by all. And this time, the basement is mainly for storage. Brightening the double-height kitchen, the sloped ceiling soars 20 feet to an enormous skylight. Suspended on fine wires, a linear pendant descends low over the oiled-oak island. Behind it, the vast backsplash in Calacatta marble is washed by LED cove lighting. Glass cabinet doors are backpainted snowy white. The effect overall is one of gallery-like modernism. Gray takes over in the upstairs master suite’s spa bathroom. Its floors and walls are covered in striated marble slabs—those on the wall, while of a consistent width, are graduated in height to emphasize the verticality. The master bedroom occupies a cantilever. Besides sheltering a terrace off the living area downstairs, this extension positions the bedroom’s windows for a better view of Ancaster Creek, a popular local fishing spot. While the graceful house is definitely the sum of its elegantly low-key parts, it does feature one showstopping statement move: a floating spiral staircase that links the three levels. An off-kilter
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corkscrew veneered in rift-sawn oak—a gentle echo of the wooded lot—the winding stair’s hefty sculptural curves are as compelling as any work of art.
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wo o d notes Opposite: Marble slabs line the master bathroom. Top: Limestone and cedar define the facade. Bottom: The master bedroom is part of a suite that also boasts a den and a library.
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NATURAL SELECTION ALL-WHITE IS ALL-BLAH. DESIGNERS DIFFERENTIATE BY USING NATURAL MATERIALS TO PIQUE SURFACE INTEREST.
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Forward-thinking kitchen and bath designers, especially in the luxury market, are raising the creative bar with natural elements by injecting color and pattern, unique surface treatments, and an array of interesting textures and finishes. NKBA asked four certified designers for some direction about doing what comes naturally.
KNOCK ON WOOD. “Oak is back, in a big way!” says Peter Salerno, CMKBD. “We’re using sawn oak, with ceruse finishes and different glazes. The number-one wood we’re using is white oak, followed by alder—a softer wood that can be stained easily and doesn’t have a color seeping through, like a pink from a cherry wood.”
PATTERN BEHAVIOR. “Ceramics with biophilic patterns in Mediterranean jewel tones add art elements,” says Sabatino. “Classic suit-fabric looks have translated to tile, and I love this fashionforward movement. Texture and sheen are equally as important as color and pattern. A neutral tone with an interesting texture creates excitement.”
“Neutral wood and stone biophilic tones are very popular,” notes Toni Sabatino, AKBD. “Tones found in nature—neutral sand, sea and forest colors—create a calm, timeless vibe.”
“Another focal point is the flooring—porcelain with a large pattern,” says Flynn. “I’m still seeing a lot of large patterns for tile and flooring layouts.”
CLEANSE THE PALETTE. “I steer my clients to soft taupes as an alternative dominant color [to white],” says Kelly Morisseau, CMKBD. “Clients are more open to being introduced to texture than to bold colors. 3D and textured patterns for wood and tile have been growing in popularity. Trending colors for me: blues; matte bronzes; rich, dark colors from Europe, like dark browns. In grays, we see concrete tones.” “Gray elements are still a trend but they’ve been overused,” says Rebecca Flynn, CMKBD. “Painted cabinetry, pink, dark green and lavender can be fun accents. Steel blue is popular. A white kitchen gives us an opportunity to have fun with the tile design; this becomes the focal point.” LEATHER AND LACE. “We’re moving away from shiny surfaces,” says Salerno. “People like tactility, and a leather surface wears well and hides a lot. We recently used a lacewood for cabinets in a kitchen, and for the island’s countertop, we sandwiched a shiny, silver lacy textile from Italy between two pieces of glass. We’re sandwiching beautiful fabrics in glass on vertical surfaces, too.”
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Flynn concurs: “Walnut island countertops may be classic, but quartzite is trending. That’s the way to go—especially leathered finishes.”
HAS MATTE. “Matte finishes are looking like the next big trend in luxury homes,” declares Morisseau. “We’ll see an uptick in matte finishes of all kinds, whether for counters, cabinet doors, paint finishes or hardware.” “Matte metals, like satin gold, add a touch of glamour,” says Sabatino. “Matte gunmetal, offblack and bronze tones—previously only found in decorative hardware—are making their way into mainstream plumbing and lighting. Castings and 3D-printed metal shapes, PVD finish options, textures and mixed metals have made bathroom faucets pretty exciting! A careful mix of metals for door hardware, cabinetry hardware, lighting, plumbing or tile give a well-curated, sophisticated look. The space becomes truly artful when the elements are mixed but well-balanced.” HEAVY METALS. “Wood hoods are out now,” Salerno reports. “I’m doing a lot of powder-coated metal hoods, often grays and blues—sometimes to match the appliances, like a La Cornue range.” “We’re doing layered combinations—stainless and textured coppers,” Morisseau adds, “and black matte finishes.” MAKE A SPLASH. “Two types of backsplashes are popular: large-format tile or mosaic/deco tile,” says Morisseau. “We’re beginning to see large-format porcelains for flooring, walls and other surfaces becoming more popular for our luxury clients.” “Big slabs are great for backsplashes as well as countertops,” Salerno adds. “And no more rectangles behind the stove, that doesn’t look current anymore.”
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