The Perfect Kitchen

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A chic, polished guide to creating your dream kitchen from the cofounder of Waterworks, with hundreds of images and practical advice.
The kitchen is the heart of the home, the destination of every party, everyone’s favorite gathering spot, where style and functionality must go hand in hand. Designing a kitchen is a vastly complicated affair, involving an array of appliances (movable and fixed) and storage zones, not to mention addressing the kitchen’s role as a multifunctional social arena to be used from very early in the morning until late into the night. Creating a timeless, high-functioning space is daunting indeed. Where is one to begin?
In The Perfect Kitchen, Waterworks cofounder Barbara Sallick explores the process of designing a kitchen in great and beautiful detail, from surfaces and finishes to storage, cabinetry, and hardware. The book is enriched by dozens of images of kitchens by esteemed designers such as Steven Gambrel, Gil Schafer, and Suzanne Kasler; essays by top food icons including Julia Turshen and Melissa Clark about their own kitchens; and important, how-to advice.
Combining evocative, informative photography with an authoritative, engaging narrative, The Perfect Kitchen is an essential, lasting resource that will appeal to discerning homeowners and professionals alike looking for upscale visual inspiration and design advice.

From the Publisher

CONTENTS:

PART 1: Matters of Style

As the heart of the home, the kitchen touches on realms of memory and intimacy—elements much more challenging to get right than functionality or flow. How the room looks determines how it makes you feel, which is why, in the kitchen, finding the right style remains essential.

PART II: Matters of Substance

A high-functioning kitchen is more than a matter of state-of-the-art equipment. Quite the contrary: you can have the best of everything, but if your kitchen doesn’t derive organically from your preferences and circumstances, you’ll be disappointed (at great expense). Assess your needs honestly, plan effectively, and execute carefully—that’s substance.

PART III: Ancillary Spaces

What do we mean when we say “the kitchen”? Is it one room or the sum total of its main and ancillary spaces? In fact, if you’ve got the square footage, a pantry, laundry, bar, flower room, and mudroom may prove as indispensable to your kitchen as the kitchen itself.

PART IV: Details

In matters great and small, there can be no macro without micro, and this is especially the case in the kitchen, in which the significance of the well-chosen detail cannot be overstated.

Publisher ‏ : ‎ Rizzoli; Illustrated edition (March 24, 2020)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Hardcover ‏ : ‎ 272 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0847867919
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0847867912
Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 3.65 pounds
Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 8.87 x 1.16 x 11.27 inches