Every summer, House Beautiful collaborates with top designers and chefs to create their stylish and innovative Kitchen of the Year.
This year, Food Network star and chef Tyler Florence brought his idea of an expansive indoor/outdoor kitchen to the heart of New York City and the foot of Rockefeller Center.
The space is absolutely breathtaking: Dark wood cabinetry and hand-scraped hickory flooring set a rustic backdrop, drawing inspiration from Northern California style. The large overhead windows allow plenty of natural sunlight to pour in and help form that indoor/outdoor feel.
And what better way to blend chic with rustic than an apron-front sink. Our new Whitehaven sink is featured in Caviar color and blends perfectly with the surrounding woodwork and countertops. Tyler creatively placed two faucets side-by-side at the sink, a sleek bridge faucet and a chef-friendly pullout faucet for heavy duty cooking.
On the kitchen island, a large singe-basin sink and pulldown faucet offer a prep and clean-up area or a place to store chilled drinks and appetizers when entertaining.
The wall-mounted pot filler allows you to fill pots right at the stove without hauling them to the sink, a luxury typically found in pro-kitchens.
In the dining area, the hanging chandelier and mix-and-match assortment of chairs around the table offer a creative splash of color, pattern and glitz to the otherwise black-and-white space.
Outside, a large wood oven is surrounded by stone countertops, a large grill, even a sink and faucet, making it entirely possible to entertain without needing to run inside. The adjacent outdoor table is large enough to seat eight, and sits next to a covered patio with even more seating.
Tyler’s vision truly shines in this kitchen: indoor meets outdoor, pro-chef tools meet real-home style, sleek white tile meets rustic black wood. The 2011 Kitchen of the Year is an eclectic mix, and in this age of personalization, it seems to be a perfect fit.
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JUST STUNNING! We have a small bed and breakfast in Tucson, and that looks inviting and elegant. We also own our own paint and design company and are salivating for the opportunity to use you again! Lovely blend of textures and light.
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Linda and Dan Leonard
http://www.HaciendaLinda.com
http://www.BeautifulPaintandDesign.com
ABSOLUTELY GORGEOUS!!! PERFECT FOR ENTERTAINING, TOO!
REF NEW K- Toilet
Interesting and good looking toilet and a nice view if siting on the toilet, and a much more interesting view for those outside looking in at the user of the toilet. Plus no place to hang the toilet paper roll.
How did this ad pass the review board…
I will say the photography is great ..
Howard Kelly, Calif. a Kohler product user.
We have been passing that awful photo/ad around the office all afternoon, laughing our butts off! Making up comments about what the model was thinking.. what the director must have told her to convey… how to scene was decided upon… at least it has been hours of entertainment for an otherwise boring Friday afternoon! And lets hope she has some TP in that designer purse of hers because yes, where is the matching European paper holder!
The water squirter! the water squirter has enough pressure to preclude the TP!
One benefit of the Bidet is “no need for toilet paper”!
todo perfecto lo que falta es tienpo para poder disfrutar muchos quisieramos dormir en la cosina….
I would love to cook in that kitchen. I am a medium-level chef and love to cook new dishes and try out new foods. At 72, with a new heart that is 14 years out, I am in the healthy stage of my life! I have a very small kitchen with an adjoining dining room. Am tempted to make it a big kitchen, tho in the one bedroom, one bath condo, it may make it over-the-top!
The toilet was interesting and the dining area scrumptious.
I’m a night owl who cooks in the nude, not an exhibitionist. This kitchen looks wonderful but would never work for me. Ditto the can.
The kitchen is gorgeous and has many fantastic features. However, I’m kind of short and cannot easily climb ladders so probably wouldn’t be able to reach the pots or anything on the higher shelves. That makes this kitchen highly impractical for me, your average, arthritic, middle-aged woman.
Enjoyed the kitchen design, but hated the Numi ad…the model and her pose is rediculous…come on Kohler…we’re not that stupid.
This is beyond stunning!
Why so negative Debby Downer?? With that dark outlook, why would you even read this posting?? Go back under the covers and let people who enjoy kitchen design dream a little!