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Collection by Luke Hopping

A Look at Nooks: How Modern Families Eat Breakfast

These five homes make way for the most important meal of the day at a time when it's increasingly eaten on-the-go.

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Counterweights Drum pendant lamp by George Kovaks from Lumens hangs above a Docksta table from Ikea.
Counterweights Drum pendant lamp by George Kovaks from Lumens hangs above a Docksta table from Ikea.
Kiku leans on the “dai koku bashira” as Mika looks on from a barstool from department store John Lewis.
Kiku leans on the “dai koku bashira” as Mika looks on from a barstool from department store John Lewis.
The knotty-pine breakfast nook, which is similar to what was a signature feature of 1920s and ’30s Spanish-style houses—though the originals were decorated in a Moorish theme.
The knotty-pine breakfast nook, which is similar to what was a signature feature of 1920s and ’30s Spanish-style houses—though the originals were decorated in a Moorish theme.
A previously empty space became a nature-infused breakfast nook with a built-in bench seat of wood slats painted white. Arthur Umanoff chairs join a live-edge wood slab table. The lines of the Dansk salt and pepper shaker are mirrored in the vintage lamp, with a cardboard shade found at the Long Beach flea market.
A previously empty space became a nature-infused breakfast nook with a built-in bench seat of wood slats painted white. Arthur Umanoff chairs join a live-edge wood slab table. The lines of the Dansk salt and pepper shaker are mirrored in the vintage lamp, with a cardboard shade found at the Long Beach flea market.