Our Favorite Kitchens

In the kitchen of Dar Zero — the vacation home of the collectors and shop owners Jamie Creel and Marco Scarani in Tangier, Morocco — various styles of mashrabiya, carved wooden latticework traditional to North Africa and the Middle East, have been inset into the lower cabinets. The backsplash is made from hand-painted zellige tiles. Read more here.
The architect and designer Roberto Gerosa made the kitchen island in his Milan home from a wooden door he found when he moved into the building. Above it hangs a brass pendant lamp of his own design. Read more here.
The all-stainless-steel kitchen in the artist Jack Ceglic and the architect Manuel Fernandez-Casteleiro's East Hampton, N.Y., home. Read more here.
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