Modernizace Kuchyně
Two years ago, Holly Wulff Petersen and Renée Kemps met while taking a photo workshop “in the middle of nowhere in Sweden.” The two foodies started talking about opening their own kitchen photography studio, “fully functional for cooking,” says Renée, “but definitely made to be beautiful for shoots.”
“Nordic, minimalist, and natural, but still cozy and warm,”
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Between then and now, Renée, who is Dutch and only 24 years old, finished her degree in English at the University of Amsterdam and won the Saveur blog award for food photography (see her blog). And Holly, 31 and from Ireland, continued her studies in cooking and nutrition while also becoming a stylist and photographer. The two recently joined forces and rented an 800-square-foot space in East London. Ponying up an initial £10,000 pounds ($12,660) each—and along the way, spending considerably more—they designed the kitchen of their dreams. Ours, too. Come see.
We love quiet minimalist kitchens, but we’re equally enamored with heart-of-the-home kitchens, the kind of space that you can’t imagine without also hearing the cacophony of pots banging, pencils scribbling, and kids running in and out. Phyllis Grant’s Berkeley kitchen—with its open shelving stocked with cooking tools; hard-wearing, no-nonsense building materials; and large butcher-block island designed for food preparation and SAT preparation alike—falls into this everything-AND-the-kitchen-sink category.
“Our space was old, not well taken care of, and filled with fake walls and dead electrical cables,” they tell us. “We stripped it down, ripped out four layers of flooring, and started with an empty canvas.”