In an earlier incarnation, Kathryn Scott designed blue
and white china patterns and Faberge eggs; the former
are displayed in a series of mahogany hutches in the
kitchen, so stately they could be used as display cases
in a grand museum, the Victoria and Albert, for example.
These towering cabinets, designed in black walnut by
Scott, with tall glazed doors and polished brass pulls,
are of the sort we associate with English royal or noble
kitchens. Scott's kitchen is of their scale and caliber,
but with a soaring ceiling; the huge space it occupies
and felicitous detail of its fittings make it the heart of her
house.
HYLAND
