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"Kitchens by the AD 100\nOur look at how top designers and architects create the perfect space for the seasoned cook\nInterior designer Thad Hayes collaborated with architect Paul F. Shurtleff and landscape architect Douglas Reed on a house in upstate New York. A circa 1910 iron chandelier hangs in the catering kitchen, meant to facilitate entertaining. June 2008\nIn rural northeastern California, a San Francisco couple commissioned Suzanne Tucker, of Tucker &amp;amp; Marks, to design the interiors of their new residence within an existing family compound. She comments that in a weekend house, \"you can be thematic in a playful way.\" The husband wanted a house that was \"not too fancy,\" while the wife insisted on \"not too ranchy.\" The kitchen's reclaimed-wood walls and floors, darkened with age, are paired with a pale green ceiling that Tucker says \"gives a slightly reflective quality.\" January 2009\nArchitect Oscar Shamamian, of Ferguson &amp;amp; Shamamian, collaborated with New York-based interior designer Victoria Hagan on a couple's summer house overlooking the water on Nantucket. \"It was important to capture the spirit of Nantucket in an understated way,\" says Hagan. The kitchen, where the family takes most meals, \"has the charm of an older house but with a modern emphasis on the relationship to the outside.\" October 2005\nArchitect Margaret McCurry designed a house for Paul and Judith Bentley in Oostburg, Wisconsin. \"The kitchen is the center of family interaction,\" says McCurry. Portraits by Patrick Beilman of two of the couple's four sons are above the cabinet, and a cast-iron carousel face is above the contemporary range hood. October 2007\n\"I don't have any stamp on my work,\" says Juan Montoya, the Colombian-born, New York-based interior designer. \"I don't repeat myself. Every client has different needs and expectations. I tailor my design to each.\" Montoya created \"a sophisticated yet relaxed home for a young family\" in a prestigious Park Avenue building. In the kitchen, marble tiles replaced vinyl. The cabinets are now \"Douglas fir that has been sliced and relaminated, so the grain is absolutely straight,\" Montoya explains. February 2006\n\"I wanted to take the house back to where it began, unmuddy the lines, make it a cool expanse,\" designer Stephen Knollenberg says of his 1940s cottage in Douglas, Michigan, which he renovated. He designed the kitchen around a 1960s range; the burners are in the pull-out drawer. Cobbled walnut \"tiles\" are set into the concrete floor. September 2007\nArchitect Hugh Newell Jacobsen designed a residence in the resort village of Windsor, Florida. The kitchen has Corian countertops; the cabinetry, refrigerators and freezer as well as the table, designed by Jacobsen, are all stainless steel. July 2006\n\"It's a contemporary blend of Hawaiian cottage style with Southeast Asian and Balinese influences,\" architect Mark de Reus says of the house he and designer Mary Philpotts McGrath built for a family on the Big Island of Hawaii. McGrath chose monkeypod cabinetry to warm the kitchen. May 2007\nTed Turner hired San Antonio architect Chris Carson and Dallas interior designer Laura Hunt to carry out the design of his desert lodge on Armendaris Ranch, his 350,000-acre wild animal preserve along the dramatic Fra Cristobal Mountains. \"I wanted a hacienda-type house. I like Mexican architecture,\" says Turner. \"The kitchen was based on historic kitchens of Spanish colonial homes in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico,\" explains Hunt. June 2008\n\"The owners asked us to build a place that was not dependent on art but in which the architecture itself was art,\" architect Gisue Hariri, of Hariri &amp;amp; Hariri, says of the Park Avenue apartment she designed with her sister Mojgan. In the kitchen, a marble work surface doubles as a dining area. October 2007\nClients of Peter Shelton and Lee F. Mindel's called on the architects to handle the interiors of a Peter Rose-designed beach house they'd acquired on five Martha's Vineyard acres. Shelton and Mindel took inspiration from two turn-of-the-last-century beach shacks on the property. \"What they represent is an ultimate simplicity, and this suggested to us the vocabulary for outfitting the house,\" Mindel says. \"No hokey decoys or sentimental trappings of Americana. On the contrary, we wanted to do something easy, natural, organic, free-form, informal and, as always, informed.\" Decorative objects in the kitchen include a candelabrum and green vases. May 2009\n\"I think it's fun to do things that are a little different,\" says designer Mica Erteg\u00FCn, of MAC II, who created warm, eclectic interiors for a family's Fifth Avenue residence on Central Park. The kitchen is \"the center of our life,\" says the wife. Erteg\u00FCn wanted a kitchen that didn't \"look like just a kitchen;\" she achieved this with glass floor tiles, a light blue ceiling, an oak table, surrounded by a set of red metal chairs she had copied from four originals in the family room, and two frothily elegant chandeliers made of Murano glass. May 2008\nTelevision and movie producer Jeff Franklin called on Richard Landry to substantially reconceive an unfinished house in Beverly Hills. The architect found inspiration in Andalusian design. He carved the kitchen out of the former family room. Copper, brass and steel were used for the pot rack and the range and pizza oven hoods. February 2010\nMariette Himes Gomez worked with architect Robert A. M. Stern on a Shingle Style house in Southampton, New York. \"Mariette's d\u00E9cor is perfect,\" says Stern. \"She keeps the colors subtle, and she has what I call an editorial eye; she strips things down. She can take a tangled set of decorative impulses and simplify them.\" Stern mentions that the kitchen utensils \"are meant to be seen and to provide the ambience of a cook's kitchen.\" March 2005\n\"We maintained the spirit of the original white-clapboard farmhouse and fieldstone outbuildings that had been on the site,\" architect Michael Graves says of the Hunterdon County, New Jersey, residence he designed with his associates John Diebboll and Robert Miller. \"The kitchen emphasizes a simple and casual lifestyle,\" says Miller. The maple cabinets \"draw their vocabulary from mortise-and-tenon barn architecture.\" May 2005\n\"It's like a modern yacht\u2014we had to think of how to get the maximum amount of space out of a minimum amount of floor area,\" architect Robert A. M. Stern says of the three-story beach cottage he designed for Robert and Lisa Nesbitt in Seaside, Florida. The architect had to adhere to the community's strict design requirements, which limit height, roof slope and materials. The kitchen's pocket doors open to views of the town. April 2008\nAfter designing their family home in Newport Beach, California (see Architectural Digest, August 1997), Terry Hunziker created the interiors of Sue and Peter Cooper's residence in their native Auckland, New Zealand. \"Each of the five floors of the house expresses a different character and mood,\" Hunziker says. \"The kitchen, dining and main sitting areas all share one level near the top of the building,\" explains architect Pip Cheshire, who worked with the designer on the project. The floor is polished concrete. August 2005\nDesigner Michael Lee renovated a 68-foot steel-hulled yacht he bought in 2004 and named it Dakota, after the Manhattan apartment building. Lee lives in Malibu, California, but uses the boat, moored in Marina del Rey, as his \"in-town house\" during the week. In the galley, he took out a large refrigerator and moved storage below the counters. September 2007\nInterior designer David Easton and architect Eric J. Smith created a house in a valley just outside Aspen, Colorado, for Steve and Nancy Crown and their five children. They wanted something \"reminiscent of a home you might see in the French countryside,\" says Nancy Crown. Painted oak cabinets and bird-motif tiles imbue the kitchen with warmth. July 2008\nFor clients in New Jersey, interior designer Jos\u00E9 Sol\u00EDs Betancourt fashioned a streamlined, versatile kitchen that could accommodate casual gatherings. \"The kitchen was designed to be functional, without clutter,\" he explains. \"By omitting the overhead cabinets, it looks more like an open pavilion.\" May 2009\nFor her Colorado Springs vacation home, Dallas-based designer Emily Summers, along with Jessica Stewart Lendvay, an architect at Summers's firm, restored the 1968 Round House to the original aesthetic of its builder and designer, Don Price. Summers brought the walnut cabinets in the kitchen back to life, added green glass-tile backsplashes and reshaped the bar/counter to echo the circles of the structure. She bleached Douglas fir for the floors throughout. \"The walls were already a dark wood, and I wanted a lighter feeling in the house,\" she says. \"I wanted a contrast.\" February 2010\nArchitect Robert M. Gurney redesigned a 1950s house in Washington, D.C., for Stephen Goldstein and Antonietta Corvasce. Along the kitchen's backsplash, \"a hierarchy of large and small squares plays off of the geometric shapes used throughout the project,\" Gurney reports. Furthering the idea, he added a horizontal \"rectilinear\" shelf and a grid of aluminum ones. October 2007\nFor the creation of their 6,500-square-foot, late-Georgian-style town house in Houston's River Oaks area, Roy and Mary Cullen hired the architectural firm Ike Kligerman Barkley. The bright kitchen has a Frigidaire range, a Waterworks faucet and a chair cushion fabric from Great Plains. April 2007\nOn Miami Beach's Allison Island, architect Alexander Gorlin designed an apartment for himself in a building he designed that also bears his name, The Gorlin. The kitchen, where vertically banded larch cabinets are topped with marble counters, is open to the living and dining areas. It's \"a true loft space,\" Gorlin says. Vases add a hint of color against the stainless-steel wall. September 2006\nFor television director James Burrows and his wife, Debbie, interior designer Michael S. Smith and architect Oscar Shamamian, of Ferguson &amp;amp; Shamamian, created an elegant, tailored hilltop refuge in Bel-Air. Shamamian gave the house\u2014built on spec in the '80s\u2014cleaner, more sophisticated details. \"It was very ornate,\" says Burrows, \"and we took the ornateness out.\" The kitchen was entirely rebuilt. December 2009"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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