These are kitchen spaces for people beyond the nuclear family to come together to cook and eat. We see them as a blend of home kitchen, café, village hall an...

JGS has been involved in a new kind of project designing a retreat room for young adult cancer patients at UCL Hospital. Known as the Sanctuary Room, this is...

Johnny, Peter Gore and his team at the National Innovation Centre for Ageing (NICA) and Newcastle University have been working for the last five years on dev...

This one is in Hampshire, but the first thing to say is your country kitchen is a state of mind not a strict category. It’s a friendly hub, food and drink op...

Most of us have far too many knives, often blunt, cluttering up our drawers and knife blocks. If on the other hand you own just one or two razor-sharp knives...

Last weekend The Guardian reported new research that shows that Cooking Sunday roast causes indoor pollution 'worse than Delhi'. Air pollution is way worse ...

I believe we have a problem with the word ‘kitchen’. While language definitions are necessary for all sorts of reasons, the kitchen may be a place in need of...

When asked to recommend a great hob I can come up with a number of recommendations, depending on what you are looking for. Top of my personal list is the Wol...

Our latest work surface sinks rapidly to table height at the touch of a button or a voice command and rises again as soon as you need extra height at your el...

Broken plan is a welcome tweaking of open plan to provide areas of peace and order without boxing anyone in. It is having-your-cake-and-eating-it between tot...

Is your kitchen winter-ready? While we will probably wait a week or two longer before getting into full Christmas preparations, the cold snap is a reminder o...

The kitchen has always been the scene of both spontaneity and careful weighing up. Back in the day we had balance scales with nests of heavy metal weights li...

Last month I cooked the best steak of my life. In Napa as part of my recent US trip that took in the Smart Kitchen Summit in Seattle, I was a guest at the He...

Johnny spoke at the first Smart Kitchen Summit in Tokyo on Future Kitchen Living. The audience were interested in the kitchen as a social room where all gend...

Arriving in Kyoto in 35-degree heat and 96% humidity, I floated jetlagged through narrow streets absorbing the atmosphere of old wooden buildings not more th...

I predict the rise of a new kind of kitchen company in the near future, as human expertise works in tandem with information technology. This hybrid will be m...

This summer I find myself remembering some of my favourite holidays, in particular the excursions we made into the deeper past while staying in houses and ot...

Kirsty Allsopp's crusade to move clothes washers out of British kitchens has hit a raw nerve - issues of class/wealth and suggestions of bad hygiene all bein...

Mark was a big, colourful character who was passionate about craftsmanship. He brought this into his kitchens in an energetic and original way with an approa...

An extractor might not quite top your kitchen appliance wish list but a decent one can make all the difference to air quality in this important spot. We spen...