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101 Home Office
Work is work, but working from home is better, especially if you have the right setup.
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: Aya Brackett03.01.09 -
101 Kitchen Design
No matter how cozy your living room or den, the kitchen is usually the heart of a home. Whether you use yours to reenact Iron Chef or simply to zap a TV dinner, you'll find helpful how-tos and...
written by: Deborah Bishop04.16.09 -
101 Landscape Architecture
A brief history of landscape architecture, from Birnbaum to Walter to Coen.
written by: Deborah Bishop02.27.09 -
A Stable Office Environment
Giorgio Baravalle originally had a true home office—a space inside his house in Millbrook, New York, that was meant to be a private place to work, but instead served as a traffic circle in...
written by: Deborah Bishop02.01.09 -
A Tale of Two Houses
When Ulrich Fleischmann approached architect Maki Kuwayama, of Unit A Architecture in Stuttgart, Germany, to design a home and office space, he was looking for a deal. Fleischmann wanted two houses...
written by: Deborah Bishop02.01.09 -
An Introduction to Kitchen Design
The kitchen has evolved from a closed-off satellite to the most open, doted-upon room in the house—and repository of our dreams of domestic fulfillment.
written by: Deborah Bishop04.16.09 -
Antonio Citterio on Kitchens of the Future
“As the kitchen assumes its place as the most important part of the home, we are thankfully moving away from the idea of designing the kitchen as if it were a clinic or a sterile environment.
written by: Deborah Bishop04.16.09 -
Barely There
If not for the dawn appearance of the bear, which came loping toward Maem Slater-Enns and her then six-month-old daughter as they sat contemplating the water, the Enns family might still be...
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: Thomas Fricke02.01.09 -
Bay Wash
With a presence in three centuries, Christi Azevedo’s Victorian survived the quake of 1906 and served as a laundry before its rebirth as a well-lit hybrid of old and new.
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: Dave Lauridsen01.14.09 -
Cardenio Petrucci on Kitchens of the Future
Cardenio Petrucci has seen the kitchen assume increasing prominence, to the point where it’s akin to a piece of fine furniture.
written by: Deborah Bishop04.16.09 -
Christine Rosen on Kitchens of the Future
“Looking at the data, we will continue to eat more convenience foods and to gather less as a family, just as our kitchens become ever more ‘gourmet’ and ‘professional.’
written by: Deborah Bishop04.16.09 -
Daniel Patterson on Kitchens of the Future
According to this chef who routinely pushes the boundaries of how food is prepared and presented, the ideal kitchen will look back to the future.
written by: Deborah Bishop04.16.09 -
Density Down Under
Six weeks after moving from a “gorgeous custom house with huge gardens” in a suburb of Auckland, New Zealand, into an apartment a few minutes from the city’s central business district, Roz Mawson...
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: Simon Devitt02.02.09 -
Johnny Grey on Kitchens of the Future
The nephew of food guru Elizabeth David, Grey found validation for his design approach in the field of neuroscience.
written by: Deborah Bishop04.16.09 -
Lunch Boxes
With its updated version of the old walk-in hearth, Bulthaup deconstructs the kitchen into a freestanding system fit for a modern ascetic.
written by: Deborah Bishop04.16.09 -
Mission Statement
A house that survived the Great Quake and the intervening decades is reborn after a serious intervention by a modernist architect. David Baker’s carefully crafted rehabilitation kept the...
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: Dave Lauridsen02.26.09 -
Model Worthy
The true test of a kitchen’s mettle is not how it looks brand-new, but how it looks after a decade of wear and tear from heaving cleavers and spilling sauce.
written by: Deborah Bishop04.16.09 -
Open Kitchen
A San Francisco architect turns his “inefficiency” kitchen into a modestly scaled and well-lit place to cook, eat, work, and enjoy the view—–even with his back turned.
written by: Deborah Bishop04.16.09 -
Park 'N Play
It could have been a Sheetrock box, but as the house’s most frequently used point of entry, it deserved the same architectural respect.
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: David Duncan Livingston02.04.09 -
Pittsburgh Steeler
With a nod to the Burgh’s industrial heritage, and an eye toward the new, Jeff Walz replaced an aging farmhouse with a chic steel cube.
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: Livia Corona01.15.09 -
Project Runaway
Driven by the death of several appliances, a San Francisco family finds that a spanking new kitchen delivers a good dose of domestic harmony along with the excuse to execute a complete home makeover.
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: Leslie Williamson02.05.10 -
Sands Castle
Jeff and Larissa Sand cut their commute down to a few flights of stairs when they moved their industrial design studio, architecture office, and metalwork shop into the first two floors of their...
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: Justin Fantl10.18.10 -
Scott Hudson on Kitchens of the Future
About eight years ago, Scott Hudson founded his Seattle-based company Henrybuilt (named for his grandfather) to try to fill the void between sophisticated high-end European kitchen systems and what...
written by: Deborah Bishop04.16.09 -
Stoked to Soak
Compelling custom solutions to off-the-shelf problems are often hard to come by. But landscape architects James A. Lord and Roderick Wyllie relished the challenge of making a standard hot tub the...
written by: Deborah Bishopphotos by: Jeremy Harris02.05.09 -
Structured Play
Two of the country’s most creative and thoughtful playground designers—architect Richard Dattner and landscape architect M. Paul Friedberg—spent countless hours observing how...
written by: Deborah Bishop01.01.09
