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Back to the ’50s. Minimalism RIP.

In the last few days I have been lucky enough to visit Milan 2014, two design shows that set the year’s interiors agenda: Salone del...

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Apr 16, 20143 min read

Microbes in the kitchen

I’m always interested in what people are doing in their kitchens. Here is something new (or new for many of us: it’s actually been around...

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Mar 14, 20143 min read

The Long Kitchen, emotionally durable and multi-generational living space

At the Interior Design Summit on March 11th, sponsored by Blum UK, Johnny talked about kitchen design to suit four generations, on how...

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Feb 3, 20141 min read

Kitchen Artistry

The relationship between cooking, creativity and the kitchen environment is one of my big interests, not surprisingly. I love...

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Jan 27, 20142 min read

The long-lived Kitchen

Excerpts from Turning Grey into Gold conference at Newcastle University, 28th November When growing old, your kitchen is key for staying...

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Nov 13, 20133 min read

Wrong kind of lemon

Terence Conran and I have met in odd places down the decades, from my aunt’s house and shop to (a now closed) barber’s at the BBC site at...

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Sep 30, 20133 min read

Sitting room V Kitchen

So, it seems that the kitchen’s relatively newly-found role as social hub of the house might be under challenge. A recent survey by...

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Aug 12, 20132 min read

The kitchen of small things: tools, pots and surfaces

I was recently lucky enough to receive a new cookery book by Lindsay Bareham structured around the pots and pans in her kitchen, The...

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Jul 10, 20133 min read

Kitchens are our best defence

Food politics is suddenly at the top of many agendas, in discussions about obesity, food provenance, ever-increasing worries over...

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Jun 10, 20133 min read

Time to go veggie with Elizabeth David?

Historically, not a great many people wanted to emulate vegetarians. They were seen as cranky dinner party pests, also sentimental,...

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Mar 4, 20133 min read

A writer’s kitchen table

Andrew Solomon’s new book Far From the Tree: Children and the Search for Identity is book of the week on BBC Radio 4 and all over the...

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Feb 18, 20133 min read

The re-enchantment of the kitchen

‘Enchantment’ is a slightly quaint word to use in connection with kitchen design. When recently judging the Kitchen Bedroom and Bathroom ...

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Jan 17, 20133 min read

Mess please. While I'm talking kitchens, others philosophise it..

Messy kitchens, happy living? I think so. The first time I go into a house the sight of the kitchen reveals much about the owner’s...

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Dec 8, 20123 min read

Fine Homebuilding describes Johnny as hero of home building

Nancy Hiller, distinguished USA cabinet maker and author, writes about Johnny in the Tailgate column in the October edition of Fine...

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Oct 27, 20121 min read

War on curves

Defending my use of curves in kitchen design has become a habit over the years. Many consider them to be an expensive luxury, hard to...

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Oct 5, 20123 min read