Kitchen of the Week: A Cross-Pollinated Wooden Kitchen, Laundry, and Workspace in the Netherlands

Studio Slow is the design workshop of Dutch furniture store Jan De Jong in Friesland, in the north of the Netherlands. The studio is led by Christien Starkenburg, who, with her husband, Henk, is the fourth generation of her family to run the modernist emporium. Back in 2016, we spotlighted the company’s Curtained Kitchen, which helped ignite the under-sink skirt trend. Today, we’re featuring another kitchen by the Studio Slow team—and yes, it includes a chic linen below-counter curtain.

The design is the centerpiece of a 1960s Friesland house. Owners Anouk and Gertjan were “at the point of what to do, renovate or move?” reports Christien. They wisely chose to stay with their family and reinvent things. After working with Maas Kristinsson Architects on a renovation plan of serene, interconnected living spaces, Studio Slow came in to fully detail the new picture.

It includes a custom kitchen of ash, a storybook laundry room within touching distance, and a well-stocked home office right across the way. To keep all open and light, Studio Slow introduced glazed partitions: everything is out in the open and invitingly composed. Come see.

Photography by Anna de Leeuw, courtesy of Studio Slow and Jan de Jong.

The Hay Soft Edge 82 Stools are available from Design Within Reach.

For another curtained design by Studio Slow, see Steal This Look: A Rustic Modern Design in the Netherlands.

The stool is the Wegner CH53 from 1966.

Swedese’s 1956 Lamino Easy Chair upholstered in sheepskin is paired with a Trizo21 Austere Floor Lamp.

Three more creative Dutch designs:

• Elevating the Everyday: At Home with Sanne Hoppe and Family in the Netherlands
• The Bespoke Home of a Self-Taught Carpenter and an Interior Designer
• “This Is the House I’d Leave Amsterdam For”: A Family’s Airy, Springy 1893 Quarters in Haarlem