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20 Modern Kitchens We Love
December 5, 2012
From an inviting kitchen in a charmingly renovated cypress clad home to a hand-hewn elm galley atop a houseboat to a peek at the glossy blue cabinets inside the iconic Miller House, these kitchens offer a visual feast of design creativity.
The kitchen in this Toronto home has a decisive gallery feel. “I’ve got art on the kitchen counter. I really want to say to people, ‘Don’t take art so seriously,’” says owner—and avid art collector—Kenneth Montague. (The rest of the art-filled home is not to be missed: click here to see our slideshow.)
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Originally appeared in Party-Friendly Apartment in Toronto
In this custom-built London guesthouse kitchen designed by Studiomama, lustrous vertically clad cabinetry achieves additional depth with the addition of the chairs, which were picked up for $15 each at a local market and powder coated in bright orange.
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Originally appeared in A Colorful, Custom-Built Guesthouse in London
In this ever-so-slightly rustic take on modern style, Nicolas Gervais designed the pendant lights above the kitchen island, which was designed by Plasse and built by woodworker Stéphane Bilodeau. See the entire home in "Split the Difference."
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Originally appeared in Split the Difference
In the kitchen featured in our story "Level Headed," artist Riley McFerrin installed custom floating shelves to keep spices and vessels within easy reach. The room's pared-down, unfussy aesthetic is both pleasant and practical. (Check out the rest of the home by clicking here.)
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Originally appeared in A Couple Tackles Conversion Challenges and Builds a Modern Renovation
Jamaica barstools by Pepe Cortès for Knoll and two Ikea pendants pair nicely with the plaster walls, restored wooden beam ceilings, and polished cement floors in the kitchen of designer Nani Marquina's Ibiza abode.
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Originally appeared in This Designer Escapes to Ibiza for Some Peace and Quiet
The kitchen of the
Devis-Purdy house in Los Angeles features dual bursts of color and light. Though the appliances and cabinets are well presented in their own right, its the super-saturated jolt of a wall and soft, abundant light that make the room.
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Originally appeared in Colorful Remodel in Los Angeles
A mosaic tile wall softens the laboratory-like effect of the glossy kitchen cabinets in the famed Miller House. The home was only opened recently to the public;
click through to see it in all its sumptuous midcentury glory.
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Originally appeared in Miller House in Columbus, Indiana by Eero Saarinen
The centerpiece of this new kitchen is the cabinetry surrounding the sink, a feat managed by altering the facing and pulls of an off-the-rack Ikea system. The laminate offers a good punch of blue, and in modernist fashion, door handles were left off in favor of cutouts. See the entire home in our story, "True Value."
Originally appeared in A Little Apartment Gets a Solid Renovation
Architect John Tong turned an old Toronto dairy into the ultimate family clubhouse, complete with a spacious, airy, family-friendly kitchen (perhaps a little too family-friendly: Cooking with three children running around makes for "utter mayhem," say the parents).
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Originally appeared in Play's the Thing
Omer Arbel, the creative director at industrial design firm Bocci, was given three parameters when he began designing his colleague Randy Bishop's home: Create a “profound” connection between the internal and external spaces; build only one level; and utilize a wealth of 100-year-old salvaged beams. The kitchen's angular walls and windows open up the space for a dazzling display of pendant lamps.
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Originally appeared in Modern Angular Rural Family Home in Canada
The kitchen was the only room to get a full renovation in the Dine Residence. It features a sleek Bulthaup b3 kitchen system designed by Chris Tosdevin. The stainless-steel workspace and slate-gray laminate countertop and cabinets jibe with the house’s minimalist aesthetic while affording a nice contrast with the overriding whiteness.
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Originally appeared in Fine Dine-ing
The kitchen, by Ikea, is a homegrown beauty in this Swedish house. (The dining chairs are by Arne Jacobsen and the table is by Per Bornstein, the architect and owner.) Bornstein's entire home is well worth a click: Knotty By Nature.
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Originally appeared in Knotty by Nature
To create a sense of visual unity throughout the eclectic but compact space, the owners of this home hand-carved the tree pattern from the kitchen into these cabinet doors (from a template) using an electric router. It’s more than ornament: The cutouts eliminate the need for jutting cabinet pulls. See all the smart storage solutions from the story: Pole Position.
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Originally appeared in Warsaw Loft with Multifunctional Furniture
The Mandayam-Vohra family gathers under one of Workstead’s signature three-arm chandeliers, shown here in its horizontal configuration. It's worth checking out our slideshow of the Prospect Heights Residence to see the dining room, as well.
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Originally appeared in A Minimal Yet Mighty Brooklyn Apartment
This sleek kitchen in the renovated Dolce and Burnham Residence hits warm notes with red lacquered cabinetry, cypress woodwork, and a leafy backyard vista.
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Originally appeared in Long Island Summer Home Gets a Modern Addition
Local carpenter Crisow von Schulz constructed the galley cabinets for this houseboat from a single elm tree. The organically curving lines were intended as a contrast to the rectilinear architecture of the home. The ABK extractor unit allows maximum headroom and preserves the spacious feeling.
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Originally appeared in At the Elm
The galley-style kitchen in the high-tech, scrupulously constructed residence of architect Gregory Katz punches up the cool gray and white tones with a swathe of yellow. Caryn, his wife, fell in love with the name of a paint swatch called Canary Yellow and then left it to Gregory to fine-tune the exact hue.
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Originally appeared in Katz's Cradle
The top of this 44-level Tokyo house is dedicated to a dining area and a kitchen outfitted with steel-topped cabinets from Sanwa Company.
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Originally appeared in This Sculptural Staircase Shapes an Entire Home
A massive, live-edge slab of cypress perched atop sawhorses provides storage for pots and utensils in the Orchard House, and brings a raw element of nature into the room.
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Originally appeared in Fertile Grounds
All appliances in the Marra Road project's kitchen are from Thermador, save for a Miele dishwasher. Bright white Caesarstone bounces yet more light into the space. The home, comprised of two Michael Graves proteges, is comprised of two light-flooded, linked wings: check it out in full here.
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Originally appeared in This Couple Achieves Their Glass House Goals
The kitchen in this Toronto home has a decisive gallery feel. “I’ve got art on the kitchen counter. I really want to say to people, ‘Don’t take art so seriously,’” says owner—and avid art collector—Kenneth Montague. (The rest of the art-filled home is not to be missed: click here to see our slideshow.) Photo by Naomi Finlay. Image courtesy of © 2012 Naomi Finlay.
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