Syndicated columnist Katherine Salant has just written a fantastic piece, “Kitchen Design That Evokes and Invites Movement”, in the Saturday issue of the Washington Post:

Last week, I saw the most remarkable kitchen I have ever encountered.

It looked as though a dancer or a sculptor designed it.

On one side of a simple galley arrangement, the cabinets were held in the embrace of a thick, curved, black walnut butcher-block slab that was a study in movement. Rising from the floor, it flattened out at countertop height to become a work surface around the sink area, before curving up. Then, in a serpentine gesture, the slab turned back on itself, flattening out again to support the wall cabinets, before turning up again toward the 12-foot ceiling.

Opposite this study in butcher-block dynamism, a second curved slab rose from the floor, flattened out to be a work surface around a cook top, and then curved back down to the floor, like a dancer doing a backbend. Unlike the sink side with its cabinets, the space below the cook top held an open rack for storing pots and pans, a subtle gesture that made the space in the long and narrow 13-by-40-foot room feel more generous.

The mastermind behind this remarkable display was Johnny Grey, a British kitchen designer with a background in architecture and a refreshingly different approach to domestic spaces.

Read the rest of Katherine’s article.

Check out the article by Jason Sheftell’s on Metropolitan Home’s Showtime House that ran today in the Daily News.