The first thing one noticed upon entering certain houses in London — before the flowers arranged with studied negligence…

There is a thing that happens in a kitchen that has been lived in for a long time. The colors settle. They stop being colors…

There is a kitchen in Oxford, England, and it is not a bright room. It does not want to be…

The great kitchens of London, New York, and Los Angeles do not reveal themselves immediately…

The kitchen lost its soul twice in America, and both times it happened because people were afraid…

There is a particular kind of room that no longer gets built, and its absence is felt more keenly than most people…

In sixteenth and seventeenth-century Britain, the first wallpapers appeared not in grand reception halls or…

Black in a small kitchen is often misunderstood—mistaken for heavy, enclosing, or impractical. In reality…

A kitchen is not assembled the way someone assembles a piece of machinery, fitting parts to parts until the thing runs. It is resolved…

The contemporary kitchen is rarely conceived as a room in its own right. More often, it is approached as a sequence of selections…

Everything is new, everything is expensive, and everything is—on paper—correct. And yet, something remains unsettled. Not…

It may feel as though cabinetry, worktops, and layout carry the weight of the design—and they do—but it is often the hardware…