Kitchens

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Take a tour of America's kitchens
kitchens that bow to tradition, that resound with a sense of strategy, that bear the stamp of personal style. More than 300 full-color photographs point the way to the kitchen of your dreams. Hundreds more photographs of stoves and sinks and other basic
elements as well as names and addresses of manufacturers and suppliers are among the tools that will help you to realize it.
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KITCHENS
Mid-century mavens pronounced tiiat the kitchen of the future would be a gleaming white laboratory, off-limits to the family and loaded with every modern convenience. Well, the future has arrived and today's kitchen has little to do with those predictions. More often than not, the kitchen has replaced the living room as the gathering place for family and friends. And while the conveniences are certainly there, they've been designed to fit the style of the home. Kitchens celebrates these trends,... Tovább

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Take a tour of America's kitchens
kitchens that bow to tradition, that resound with a sense of strategy, that bear the stamp of personal style. More than 300 full-color photographs point the way to the kitchen of your dreams. Hundreds more photographs of stoves and sinks and other basic
elements as well as names and addresses of manufacturers and suppliers are among the tools that will help you to realize it.
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Mid-century mavens pronounced tiiat the kitchen of the future would be a gleaming white laboratory, off-limits to the family and loaded with every modern convenience. Well, the future has arrived and today's kitchen has little to do with those predictions. More often than not, the kitchen has replaced the living room as the gathering place for family and friends. And while the conveniences are certainly there, they've been designed to fit the style of the home. Kitchens celebrates these trends, offering both inspiration and information to help make your kitchen the heart of your home.
Author Chris Casson Madden traveled the country searching out kitchens that express everything from the owner's personality to regional design styles. Color and pattern are the theme of one kitchen that captures the landscape of the Southwest; in another, comfort is the key, with counters and sofas placed cheek to jowl. A New England kitchen showcases a collection of American antiques; a country kitchen features a beehive oven; a city kitchen captures the feeling of San Francisco fog.
Chris Madden opens drawers to show off clever storage ideas, and she reveals the trompe I'oeil tricks that conceal venting systems. Her helpful "spec boxes" identify everything from the architect or designer of each kitchen to the manufacturer of the fixtures.
Rounding out this book is an invaluable resource guide, which offers advice on designing and accessorizing a kitchen and working with
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professionals, as well as hundreds of photographs of stoves, refrigerators, sinks, cabinets, floors, and more.
Whether you're setting out to renovate or remodel—or only dreaming of it—Kitchens is the one book to reach for.
Chris Casson Madden is known nationally as a lecturer on decorating and interior design and as author of the book Interior Visions. She and her husband, HG publisher Kevin Madden, recently renovated the kitchen in their 100-year-old home in Westchester County, New York, for themselves and their two young sons.
Jacket design by Gina Davis Front jacket photograph by John Vaughan Back jacket photographs by Michael Mundy and John Vaughan Vissza