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A Century Later, the Kitchen Earns the Architect's Attention

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One design house has spent a hundred years making the case that the kitchen deserves the same discipline as any other room in a well-built house — proportion, material, and craft, not just plumbing and storage. It is an argument this desk recognizes: in the finest American houses, the kitchen has stopped being a utility room and started being architecture.

With reporting from Elle Decor.

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