A Kitchen with a Cubist Look

Architect Idan Naor didn’t got down to design a kitchen that calls to thoughts a Cubist portray. His purchasers—a pair who each work in tech and have what Naor admiringly describes as “details-oriented mindsets”—requested a fastidiously crafted, open-plan design for the middle of their Brooklyn duplex. “What was there was terribly laid out and nothing felt effectively designed or chosen,” report the homeowners, avid cooks and mixologists who additionally occur to be semi-pro swing dancers. “We wished an area we’d love to only sit and soak up.” Translation: daring strikes welcome.

Naor, who studied structure at Columbia College and runs his personal boutique agency, INworkshop, was tasked with not solely changing the present kitchen, however remodeling the staircase that was awkwardly intruding at one finish. He and his purchasers weren’t the one ones who objected to it: Opi, the couple’s three-legged rescue canine, “vehemently refused to journey down the open risers—they have been intimidating at his eye stage,” says Naor.

The hitch: the stair location and dimensions have been locked in place due to concrete slab flooring. Throughout the problem-solving course of, Naor took inspiration from artwork historical past, together with Richard Serra’s metal sculptures, and started contemplating a planar search for the up to date design—and that fragmented, geometric strategy ended up extending to the ceiling and partitions, the counters and the kitchen island. Picasso, Braque, Malevich, and numerous others would approve. So does Opi.

Pictures by Haley Day, except famous, courtesy of INworkshop.

Beforehand painted white and in unhealthy form, the present wooden flooring was stripped and refinished with Bona Nordic Seal for a matte end. M&E Building served as normal contractor and the entire millwork is by KMBuilds.