ARCHITECTURE
Kitchen and Butler’s Pantry
ARCHITECTURE
Kitchen and Butler’s Pantry
For a large apartment on Fifth Avenue combing three apartments into one, the initial challenge was to figure out the appropriate location for the new kitchen, respecting building requirement for wet spaces over wet.
The kitchen is the room for cooking, food storage, informal meals and conversations. The “hearth” is often conceived as the central space in a home, and where the family casually congregates. It was therefore natural to place it in the center of the apartment, combining an existing kitchen with a former maid quarters and a laundry room, and fulfilling the brief. The kitchen island is the “round about” where family home life revolves, and the kitchen’s central location within the apartment acts as a connector between the more formal rooms and the private bedroom sections residing in both the East and West sides of the apartment.
The Kitchen was designed to be a light and friendly space, and this atmosphere was enhanced through additional recessed lighting at the windows to blend with the North daylight from an interior courtyard
Beautiful indirect South light is brought into the space with glass sliding door partitions to the adjoining Breakfast and Dining rooms. The palette is kept in white tones with linen white cabinetry, a white subway tile back splash and Statuary marble counters.
The Kitchen and Butler’s Pantry are designed with similar custom cabinetry, however detailed and finished in contrast to one another. The Butler’s Pantry, which can also be accessed from the Foyer Gallery, was completed in a dark stained oak palette with Red Persian Travertine counters that tie in with the Gallery floor. The space serves both as an entry space to the kitchen with a mail cabinet and counter space for incoming and outgoing items, as well as a formal staging and “cigar room” when entertaining.
The Butler’s Pantry was also conceived with a blind door entry from the Living room. It is this darker space with antique mirror backsplash panels you can experience before entering a light filled welcoming kitchen, which leads to a perception of contrast enhancing the spatial understanding.
Location: New York, NY
Size: 6000 Sq. Ft. Apartment
Services: Architectural Design and Project Management
Photography: Eva Christine Jensen
Location: New York, NY
Size: 6000 Sq. Ft. Apartment
Services: Architectural Design and Project Management
Photography: Eva Christine Jensen
Plan, Custom Kitchen and Butler’s Pantry
Linen white Kitchen with marble counters, white porcelain undermount sinks.
Kitchen pantry for china, silver and crystal stemware
Kitchen island, Cabinetry niche beyond for bulletin board and small flat screen tv
Kitchen cooking island, appliances with custom paneling. Butler’s Pantry beyond
Kitchen Elevations with Island superimposed
Click to view art installation
Click to view art installation
Butler’s Pantry, dark stained oak finished, in contrast to light and welcoming Kitchen.
Butler’s Pantry, View towards the light kitchen
Butler’s Pantry Elevations
Butler’s Pantry Elevations
Butler’s Pantry Elevations
Butler’s Pantry Elevations
Detail, Kitchen marble counter
Crown Detail, integrated recessed lighting and air supply ventilation
Crown Detail, recessed lighting and motorized shade pocket
Detail, offset pivot hinge for custom blind door.