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Great Kitchens: Design Ideas from America's Top Chefs

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Professional chefs design their home kitchens for efficiency, comfort, and style. What makes a pro's kitchen work so well? A knowledge of cooking and a signature style. This book features hundreds of design ideas offering readers a glimpse inside the home kitchens of some of America's most renowned chefs. It's a visual feast and a wellspring of design inspiration.
-- Features 26 dream kitchens and advice on creating your own.
-- Includes more than 300 photographs, floor plans, lists of equipment, and recipes.
-- More than 50,000 copies sold in cloth since publication.


PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:

Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 690
EAN: 9781561585342
Format: Illustrated
ISBN: 1561585343
Label: Taunton
Manufacturer: Taunton
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 240
Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Publisher: Taunton
Release Date: 2001-10-01
Studio: Taunton


SIMILAR ITEMS:

• Kitchens That Work: The Practical Guide to Creating a Great Kitchen
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• The New Smart Approach to Kitchen Design (New Smart Approach)
• New Kitchen Idea Book (Idea Books)


CUSTOMER REVIEWS:

Tons of great ideas -
This is a nice illustration of the kitchens of some very opinionated chefs, each with his or her own preferences, and many of which clash. (This one loves cabinets, that one hates them, and why, for example.) The articles provide excellent rationales and methods for much of the custom work in the chefs' kitchens, some of which can be installed inexpensively by the homeowner. A treasure trove of really good ideas!

Great Kitchens: At Home With America's Top Chefs -
The color photographs in Great Kitchens are beautiful, with great detail. The book maps out each kitchen as well, and gives the reader remarkable ideas for first-rate kitchen design, fixtures, appliances, storage , cabinets, ect. from each Chefs personal home kitchen.
I only would have been a bit more inspired to see Kitchens of Chefs Bobby Flay, Or Giada DeLaurentiis,Emeril Lagasse, some TV personalities as well. Although, Mary Sue Milliken and Rick Bayless are in this book and show really creative kitchens.

Style Meets Functionality -
Design a kitchen that not only looks good, but contributes to your own personal style of cooking.

What do you really want in your new kitchen? -
After reading this book, I realized that part of me wanted a kitchen that would impress others. That aim partly conflicted with my personal aesthetic preferences and the way I like to live and cook. What inspired me the most in this book was seeing kitchens for cooks I revere. The diversity of kitchens is refreshing because many of the design magazines these days are focused on particular "looks." The pictures in the book are very good. Paul Bertolli's kitchen is interesting in that it doesn't have upper cabinets. I never considered not having upper cabinets, but it made the space feel much brighter and larger. The author also presents a floor plan for each kitchen and I found this really helpful for understanding kitchen dynamics.

My favorite kitchen book -
I'm a coffee-book junkie if they're about house design. Most new books I order each month are tired re-treads and get a little stir of interest and then are donated to the local library. I won't part with this one. I took it to read on vacation, and it was gold for 800 miles of a long car trip. My husband was entertained by excerpts I read to him and fab photos I flashed him on boring stretches of desert highway. He's not into kitchen design (probably because he's done so many real projects) and even he found it interesting. The photos are top rate. The bottom line is that every kitchen is personal, and this book brings that message home better than any other kitchen book I've seen.

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