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"View Slideshow\n\nFew design projects inspire quite like a top-to-bottom makeover. Who could fail to be impressed by an apartment's woefully dated kitchen masterfully reworked into a cutting-edge culinary wonderland, or a mediocre tract house made marvelous by the addition of red-cedar shingles, a vine-clad loggia, and a charming tower crowned by a weather vane? Transformations like these have been an essential element of Architectural Digest since 1992, when our first Before &amp;amp; After issue made its debut with 13 exceptional ventures. The intervening 20 years have seen star talents\u2014such as interior designers Sally Sirkin Lewis and Juan Montoya and architects Alexander Gorlin, Campion Platt, and Robert A.M. Stern\u2014inventively renovating, remodeling, and reinvigorating. Sometimes the jobs are large, sometimes they are small. But no matter how august the names or how heady the result, the goal is always the same: to give a lackluster dwelling a new lease on life.\n\nView Slideshow1 / 16A Manhattan kitchen."^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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