Black and White Kitchen from Maine
You can’t go wrong with black and white, even in the most unlikely place: a rustic, windswept house overlooking the Atlantic Ocean.
The editor of House Beautiful magazine, Christine Pittel wanted to know how interior designer Mallory Marshall gave her kitchen a beautiful glow.
Here are some key questions and answers, taken from the conversation between the two:
CHRISTINE PITTEL: Where did the idea of black and white come from?
MALLORY MARSHALL: In Maine, we like plain good things. I like very classic surfaces. We built the cabinets all out of mahogany and finished them to match my favorite piece from my husband’s glass collection, these black bowls by Dale Chihuly. So of course the floor had to be white. It’s refined French limestone, the chalkiest things I could find. It’s like skin, and it’s heated from underneath so it feels soft under your feet. Even the furniture on it is warm all the time.
CHRISTINE PITTEL: This is a 1920s Tudor house. You seem to have leapt several centuries in a single bound with this addition.
MALLORY MARSHALL: It’s totally different, but in some ways the same…
CHRISTINE PITTEL: Why did you choose stainless-steel countertops?
MALLORY MARSHALL: Steel sink, steel stove, steel everything…[it] reflects light, but we scarred it up real fast to knock it back a bit. The more distressed it gets, the better…
Source:
(House Beautiful Magazine, April 2006 Issue)
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