Kitchen Culture: Re-Inventing Kitchen Design Book

Foreword by Alice Waters

Introduction

Kitchen Culture:

Reinventing Home Space

• A fresh home experience
• The experience of space
• Food and foreign influences
• Psychology of kitchen culture
• Bodily comfort
• Influencing design
• The kitchen of the future

The Core of Kitchen Design

• Good use of light
• Changing the parameters of a kitchen
• Soft geometry and its new partners
• Graceful locations
• Eccentric spaces
• A modern freestanding kitchen
• Better on a boat
• Releasing design energy

Communication between space and people

• Creating the right atmosphere
• A sense of place
• Emotional intelligence
• A question of taste
• Originality and self-expression

Kitchen Works:

Design Analysis

• Creating the design
• Lore of basic measurements
• Body ergonomics
• Design for cooking
• Soft geometry
• Style and aesthetics
• Appliances

Whole Environment:

Architectural Opportunities

• Defining a room
• Space Extensions
• Lighting design

Bibliography

Suppliers

Index

Acknowledgments