Kitchen of the Week: A Examine in Black by Designer Nicole Hollis
Some time again, we featured the 5,000-square-foot darkly glamorous studio of San Francisco inside designer Nicole Hollis, a member of the Remodelista Architect/Designer Directory. (See A Noirish Studio for a San Francisco Design Star.) We have been particularly taken by the kitchen, which Hollis outfitted nearly fully in shades of black (white partitions and a contact of white marble however).
Let’s take a more in-depth look:
Images by Laure Joliet, courtesy of Nicole Hollis.
Above: Within the studio’s communal employees kitchen, flooring are customized darkish grey concrete and partitions are painted in Benjamin Moore’s Decorator’s White—the identical finishes used all through the remainder of the studio. Above: The kitchen has two handmade backsplashes: a row of hand-glazed, shiny black Moroccan Clé tile, and a “bleached steel” metal wall encompass—an impact Hollis developed with Oakland’s Chris French Metal “so as to add depth, curiosity, and distinction to the area,” she says. Above: Two white accents—a petite planter and a salt grinder from Hudson Grace—in a sea of black: a budget-friendly dish rack Hollis discovered on Amazon, Cutting Boards by Blackcreek Mercantile & Buying and selling Co. from March in San Francisco, and a pair of black Rubber-Coated Soap Pumps and black Rubber Cups from CB2. Above: A customized metal kitchen island with Calacatta marble high (from CoorItalia) is without doubt one of the few nonblack surfaces within the room. The requisite microwave (it’s a employees kitchen, in any case) is hidden within the cupboard simply to the left of the sink. Above: Direct mild reveals how advanced the black shades actually are, together with a Belgian bluestone countertop from Cooritalia. “There isn’t just one shade of black right here, however many,” mentioned Hollis, “in addition to quite a lot of textures. That’s key if you find yourself working with a restrictive palette.” Above: Glass jars from Fort Standard maintain quite a lot of loose-leaf teas, perched over a Viking electrical vary.
