Design Doesn't Travel. It Just Pretends To.
My Italian mother cooks from a window sill of scattered herb pots. My mother-in-law cooks from a spice box built for arm's reach. Twenty years in design taught me that culture doesn't just shape how people eat — it shapes how a kitchen has to work.
Designed to Be Photographed, Not Lived In
Twenty years in luxury kitchen design taught me the difference between a room built to be photographed and one built to be lived in — and how rarely they're the same room. This is the industry habit I spent two decades helping build, and why I stopped.