Previous pages: When the owner bought this
classic New York City loft in Soho, he called on
Andrew Wilkinson Architect to gut and totally redo
the interior. While the position of the kitchen in
new interior was to some extent predetermined by
the existing services, it needed to integrate with
adjacent interior spaces such as the dining and the
sunken living areas.
Above: The kitchen sits off to one side of the
interior space, preserving a sight line along the
axis from the front of the building through to the
hallway leading to the guest rooms, seen beyond
the kitchen in this image.
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With an integrated kitchen, appliances
such as the fridge and dishwasher are
fitted with cabinetry panels rather than
their own doors, so allowing the kitchen
to have a more furniture-like look rather
than a purely functional one.
But in these days of open-plan design,
there’s another way of looking at the term
‘integrated’ – the way the kitchen fits into
the whole interior rather than making its
mark as a separate element.
That was the approach architect
Andrew Wilkinson took in the design of
the kitchen in a classic New York loft he
was asked to completely renovate.
“The owners wanted the new interior
to be very social, so the kitchen needed to
be designed to communicate openly with
other spaces in the apartment, such as the
sunken living room and adjacent dining
area,” says Wilkinson.
The siting of the kitchen in the
reworked interior was largely determined
by the position of the existing services.
“It’s not a big component in the space,
and sits off to the side because the owner