the art appliances. ���The beautiful room is a low room,���
said Oscar Wilde, and this kitchen is low-ceilinged with
broad arched windows that give it a slightly monastic
feeling. From the heavy ceiling, beamed in walnut, is
suspended a copper canopy, banded in nickel, which
serves as an exhaust fan
for the splendid island
with stovetop beneath.
Parallel to this island is
another one used for
workspace,
informal
eating, or even cookbook
study. (Through an arched
doorway is an extensive
library of cookbooks.)
This is a kitchen to
spend time in, a place
for art in gastronomy,
the laboratory where rare
viands are prepared to
be served in either of the
house���s formal or informal
dining rooms.
Dining rooms are Lobrano���s forte. In all the projects of
his which I���ve seen, there seems always to be more than
one place for eating, ranged in a hierarchy from high
formality to cozier���yet always civilized���communion. In
the formal dining room shown here, we find again a palette
of palest pink walls and palest aqua velvet upholstered
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