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The Kitchen Island Reimagined
Anyone who has spent time at the much-admired housewares and culinary cult shop MARCH in San Francisco knows that the space is anchored by a long work table. The latter also doubles as a dining table...
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Steal This Look: Messana O'Rorke Town House Kitchen
When New York architects Messana O'Rorke approached the renovation of this mid-19th-century town house, their "design intent was to respect and restore the surviving existing detailing, but introduce...
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Pour Over Coffee—Aussie Style
I spotted designer Björn Rust's colorful wire framed coffee maker at Dwell on Design over a year ago. Last month he was back on the West Coast again with his pour-over coffee maker, this time curating...
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Fisher & Paykel's Next Generation 60cm Built-in Oven Range
If an oversize oven is not your style—but efficiency is—Fisher & Paykel's next generation 60cm Built-in Oven range has a 77 litre usable internal capacity and offers more useable space than almost...
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Atomic Vision: The Sorrentina Stovetop Espresso Maker
Thank the Australians for reintroducing a design classic from Italy: the Sorrentina espresso maker, designed by Giordano Robbiati, and otherwise known as The Atomic. Milanese-born Robbiati created the...
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Chelsea Miller Knives
A good knife is hard to come by. Ideally a knife is functional foremost, but I hope you can forgive me when I say that I also want my knives to be pretty. We can't have ugly knives marring our...
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Iced Tea, No Sugar Required
Over lunch last week at the very wonderful Honey & Co. in London's Fitzrovia with Julie and Christine, we cooled off with glasses of orange-blossom iced tea. Very sweet, no ice. And delicious, but...
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A Family Recipe for Elderflower Cordial via Dublin
Our friends at Makers & Brothers, Jonathan and Mark Legge, like to keep things in the family. But they've generously shared their mother's recipe for elderflower cordial syrup, the basis for a...
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Best Reader-Submitted Kitchen Space Winner: Jan Hammock
The winner in our Considered Design Awards, Reader-Submitted Kitchen Space category is Jan Hammock, a design novice who created a spacious and functional kitchen in her family's 1925 Edwardian San...
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10 Parisian-Style Net Bags
The market tote's more compact sibling? The Parisian-style netted cotton grocery bag. While it seems to me that the bags had some popularity in the 1990s, lately we've been noticing a resurgence—and...
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Steal This Look: The Ultimate Summery Outdoor Kitchen
I'm a skeptic when it comes to outdoor kitchens (who needs anything more than a grill and a set of tongs?). I'm revising my thinking, however, after spotting—and swooning over—the ultimate setup from...
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Best Design Professional Kitchen Space Winner: Mark Reilly Architecture
The winner in our Considered Design Awards, Best Design Professional-Submitted Kitchen Space category is Mark Reilly Architecture, a San Francisco-based firm that modernized the floor plan of a...
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Ceramics Inspired by 20th Century Dishware
Just when we thought we'd had our fill of minimalist white ceramics, along comes Brooklyn-based Clam Lab, a line of handcrafted pieces from designer Clair Catillaz. Clam Lab focuses on "elegant,...
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10 Easy Pieces: Paella Pans
No traditional Spanish kitchen is complete without a paella pan, said to be one of the keys to creating Spain's beloved dish. The best paella pans are shallow (for efficient evaporation of liquids),...
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Steal This Look: Spanish-Inspired Kitchen by Jessica Helgerson
Portland, OR-based designer Jessica Helgerson overhauls a kitchen in a 1926 Mediterranean-style building, called, appropriately enough, the Alhambra. "The original kitchen was a narrow galley with one...
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A Classic from Spain: The Marquina Olive Oil Cruet
Before traveling to a new city or any destination, the inner shopper in me does a quick mental scan through the list of purchasable items (call them souvenirs) that are endemic to said location. I know...
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Having a Moment: Fizzy Sangria
I'd like to think I would have noticed sangria's sudden surge in summer popularity even if I hadn't just spent eight thirsty days in Barcelona in the height of the heat. Do you like yours fizzy? I'm a...
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The Ultimate Kitchen Trousseau
Imagine a trunk full of premium kitchen essentials compiled to represent the best kitchen tools a cook could ever desire. This is exactly what Isabelle Mathez and Frederic Winkler set out to do, after...
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Hidden Power in the Kitchen
What you don't see can be as important as what you do see. Case in point: electrical outlets. This is especially true in kitchens, where space is tight and power needs are great. Reduce visual clutter...
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A Thrifty New England Kitchen, by Way of LA
Shortly after Abby Weintraub and Matt Manfredi bought their 1941 Hancock Park house, they watched it gobble up their savings: new roof, furnace, pipes, wiring, and air conditioning. Faced with a...
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