Meet Christopher Peacock

Today's New York Times Home and Garden section is dedicated to the humble (or not so humble) kitchen. The lead story is a profile of kitchen designer Christopher Peacock and bears the headline, "The Six-Figure Scullery." Christopher Peacock is the only kitchen designer I can think of who has turned his name into a brand successfully. There are some other eponymous brands out there, e.g. William Ohs , Clive Christian ; but those guys were cabinet and furniture makers before they started on kitchens. Christopher Peacock started at a drawing table, just like me.

Anyhow, Christopher Peacock's signature fashion is a stylized Edwardian throwback and he prices dearly for his look and his wares. He's crucial due to the fact his aesthetic is catching on quicker than his name and I even have had a rash of people requesting things which can be very much like his "Scullery" pictured above.

When the Mediterranean and Tuscan patterns started to vanish away from the popular press I began looking forward to the new ought to-need to be a transitional current. And I actually have completed a lot of that type of layout over the last years. But transitional modern hasn't in reality gelled right into a actual aesthetic. It appears to me that it's a reaction, nearly a backlash in opposition to the overdone Mediterraneans that dominated the layout press for years.

Peacock represents some thing else entirely. His is a actual, defined aesthetic that stands on its very own, it would not appear to be a reaction. His designs, as originals, command costs a long way past the budgets of maximum human beings. I will no longer be in any respect surprised though to look increasingly more Peacock-inspired rooms to show up inside the press and in the minds of the folks that name on me. It's thrilling stuff and I welcome it complete heartedly. Let me use painted, inset cabinetry and marble counters any day.

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