With Thanksgiving right around the corner, gratitude, family, friends, and, of course, an epic holiday dinner occupy the minds of many. In honor of all the home gourmets playing host to Thanksgiving this year, we look at the systems, components, finishes, and appliances that make up a dream kitchen for the design-savvy chef.
Home Refinements by Julien: Signature Stainless Steel Full Kitchens
There’s nothing like stainless steel for giving a kitchen a professional look. The material offers ease of maintenance and anti-corrosion but also an edgy yet attractive aesthetic. It can be fully integrated — from countertops to cabinets, drawers, and the sink.
Home Refinements by Julien
Liebherr: WU 4500
A beautiful under-counter wine refrigerator, the WU 4500 boasts precise electronic controls, elite cooling components, and variable speed compressors. Two zones can be set with different temperatures to accommodate reds, whites, and champagne. The insulated glass door has UV protection and a charcoal filter to protect the wine from light and odor.
Liebherr
Cosentino: Integrity Sinks
The creator of Silestone quartz surfacing also manufactures a one-piece sink constructed with the same material — providing a sleek, seamless look. Integrated drain boards take things up another notch.
Cosentino
Hansgrohe: Axor Citterio Kitchen Line
Celebrated interior designer and architect Antonio Citterio has collaborated a number of times with Hansgrohe/Axor on kitchen and bathroom fixtures. The former includes two families of product: Axor Citterio and Axor Citterio M. Both are kitchen faucets defined by minimalist styling and high-functionality. The line comprises pull-down, two-spray semi-pro, prep, bar, and wall- and deck-mounted pot-filler (pasta arm) faucets.
Hansgrohe
Bertazzoni: Professional Series
Offered in a style that fits perfectly in both traditional and modern kitchens, Bertazzoni’s Professional Series cooktop range/oven combination units also come in different sizes — 24-, 30-, 36-, and 48-inch widths — to meet a variety of space constraints. It can be specified in the standard stainless-steel finish as well as in classic Italian colors such as black, white, yellow, orange, and red.
Bertazzoni
Caesarstone: Quartz Surfaces
This surfacing product is composed of 93-percent natural quartz, one of nature’s strongest minerals. It boasts high resistance to stains, scratches, moderate heat, and most household cleaning agents. Caesarstone offers its quartz surfaces in polished, honed (matte), or textured finish and in a range of colors and grain styles.
Caesarstone
Miele: Brilliant White Built-In Coffee Maker
Part of the manufacturer’s Brilliant White kitchen series, this built-in coffee maker has a sleek white-glass front that complements traditional, transitional, and contemporary white kitchens. Highlights include a cup sensor with height-adjustable main dispenser, grinder, LED lighting, multilingual LCD display, coffee bean container, auto rinse and cleaning programs, 10 user profiles, and specialty capabilities (espresso, lattes, and steamed milk, for instance).
Miele
Poliform: Minimal Kitchen
This elegant kitchen by Varenna comes in a range of woods, lacquers, and other materials and is devoid of visible hardware thanks to slot-style integrated handles. Smart drawer inserts compartmentalize storage for utensils, spices, and other items.
Poliform
Fisher and Paykel: Warming Drawer
Serving dishes like a pro is made easier with a warming drawer to keep prepared foods heated without overcooking. This Fisher and Paykel warming drawer measures 30 inches wide, has a capacity of 1.6 cubic feet (the equivalent of six 11-inch plates), and offers three temperature settings.
Fisher and Paykel
Franke: Ambient
Ambient is a series of handsome contemporary kitchen faucets that offers water-saving flow rates, at mid-range price points. Gooseneck, professional, semi-pro, bar, prep, pull-down, and pullout designs are all available.
Franke
Cosentino: Dekton
The ultra-compact surface features near-zero porosity, resistance to heat and freezing, UV rays, stains, and abrasion — making it perfect for countertop and backsplash surfacing in kitchens.
Cosentino
Sub-Zero: Built-In French Door Refrigerator/Freezer
This built-in refrigerator offers French doors that are not only attractive, but also practical: its half-door widths accommodate tighter kitchen spaces and afford extra walking space while open. One nifty feature is its NASA-inspired air purification system, which rids the interior of ethylene gas, bacteria, mold, and viruses.
Sub-Zero
Dornbracht: Pivot
Super sleek and modern, this kitchen faucet has a 360-degree pivot radius enabling it to reach various points of a kitchen island for filling pots, adding water to something already on the burner, or prepping and washing.
Dornbracht
Poggenpohl: P‘7340
The kitchen manufacturer’s long-time collaboration with Porsche Design has yielded sleek, sexy kitchens over the years that exude minimalism and precision. Among them, the P‘7340 system is defined by mitered aluminum framing fitted with handleless, push-activated storage modules. Fronts come in a choice of back-painted glass (in black, white, or beige), driftwood, dark oak, or carbon.
Poggenpohl
Formica: ColorCore2
An affordable alternative to solid surfacing, this high-pressure laminate line features through-body color so that no dark edges are visible. The series comes in 11 colors and is resistant to impact and stains.
Formica
DCS: CoolDrawer
An integrated cooling drawer designed to blend into the kitchen millwork, DCS CoolDrawer also shifts from refrigerator to freezer mode at the touch of a button. Five different temperatures chill foods and beverages exactly to the user’s preference. The stainless steel front panel is sold separately.
DCS
Wolf: E Series Ovens
These built-in wall ovens boast high design — and high performance. Using two fans and multiple heating elements, Wolf E Series’ convection systems distribute heat throughout the oven and across all racks, uniformly and efficiently. Other highlights include delayed start and timed settings, a temperature probe, three adjustable racks, and interior halogen lighting and large windows for checking on progress.
Wolf
Franke: Fireclay Farmhouse Sink
Franke may be best known for its steel sinks and faucets, but the company also produces beautiful farmhouse sinks in partnership with ceramic specialist Villeroy and Boch. Dubbed Franke Fireclay, this sink series is finished with Villeroy and Boch’s CeramicPlus, which makes it extra hard and scratch-resistant, hygienic, dirt-repellent, and insensitive to acids and alkalis.
Franke
Evans and Paul: Tops
This acrylic, solid surfacing material is both stain-resistant and self-healing — making the removal of minor cuts and scratches relatively painless. A wide variety of edge styles are available.
Evans and Paul
Gaggenau: AL 400
Now you see it, now you don’t. This vertical table ventilation system retracts to completely disappear a worktop — a particularly desirable perk for kitchen islands and peninsulas. A simple control brings the unit back up when needed. It features three power levels, an intensive mode, and integrated, dimmable LED lighting.
Gaggenau
U-Line: Modular 3000 and 1000 Series
These refrigerated drawers hold modular interior compartments allowing users to easily move around and refill contents — whether foods or beverages.
U-Line
Wilsonart: Wilsonart Quartz
Although synonymous with high-pressure laminate, Wilsonart also delves into quartz surfaces that are naturally well-suited to kitchen countertops among other applications. Its quartz product comes in slabs with dimensions of up to 55 by 120 inches with two thicknesses (.79- and 1.18-inch) and with different patterning from fine to large aggregates and, also, a marbleized look.
Wilsonart