FOR THE LOVE OF COOKING
I love to cook! Actually I enjoy the process of cooking, the preparation, selecting the ingredients, laying out my tools, cooking my meal and then to finally serve it to my family and guests. As with...
View ArticleTHE NEW PRINCIPLES OF KITCHEN DESIGN,
I have been designing kitchens for over 30 years and like most of my peers, associates, and contemporaries, I have followed religiously the holy tenets of our faith…the un-questioned “work-triangle”,...
View ArticleThe Natural Kitchen
I remember growing up as a kid in post-war America, where food seemed to be at the center of life in the Henry household. Sunday was a family chicken dinner, Thursday spaghetti, and meatballs, Friday...
View ArticleKitchen Sink Evolves from Lowly One-Dimensional Vessel to a Multi-Level, Work...
In the beginning, when our cousins first climbed out of the trees, they would gather around the watering hole at the end of a long day of hunting and gathering, grunt and whistle about their day, and...
View ArticleIS IT EVER WRONG TO DO THE RIGHT THING?
Forty-five plus years ago, while still living a post-hippie lifestyle, I attended my first Earth Day in Los Angeles. I was working at one of the first 24-hour gas stations in Los Angeles, where gas was...
View ArticleTHE MALE CENTRIC KITCHEN…the new paradigm
A few years back, while preparing a marketing study for an Italian kitchen manufacturer looking to expand their presence in North America…I made a startling discovery…kitchens were not just for women....
View ArticleTHE NEW KITCHEN MATRIX
With space at a premium, imagine a kitchen without boundaries or barriers, an environment free from conventional thought and restrictions, a kitchen created to successfully achieve the delicate balance...
View ArticleTHE NEW AMERICAN KITCHEN
Free and easy, open and inviting…these are the new adjectives that best describe the modern kitchen. A room with out boundaries or barriers, a room free from conventional thought, a room seeking a new...
View ArticleFREEDOM OF CHOICE
Do you want to see a grown man cry? Have him select a color from more that 3 selections…he will drop to his knees in tears. I’m beginning to think that choice is highly over rated.The scariest words in...
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