Kitchen of the Week: A Retro Kitchen in London from an Emerging Design Star - Remodelista
Designer Jack Hemingway has big shoes to fill But Jack has blazed his own trail and as a principal designer at the family... Photography courtesy of The Modern House. ...firm he s led exhibition design for the Tate creative direction for UK vintage festivals and community regeneration projects in Margate Portsmouth and Leicester The pair found the vintage parquet flooring from a salvage yard in Kent. “The oven was a bargain purchase and is, without doubt, the centerpiece of the kitchen,” Hemingway says. The vintage green laminate table and yellow stacking chairs are from the nearby Golborne Road street market. The door at left leads to the rear garden. The designers kept only two things from the previous kitchen: a built-in stainless steel microwave and the preexisting cabinet boxes; to update the cabinets, they added new white MDF doors. The couple found the apron sink in Hemingway’s parents’ garden, and they designed the faucet themselves. “It was a ‘suck it and see’ kind of situation,” said Hemingway (using a Brit expression meaning to give something a try). The kitchen countertops are iroko—an African hardwood—formerly used as worktops in a school science lab and sourced from London architectural salvage Retrouvius. Above, L to R: The kitchen window overlooks a Victorian terrace, which is smartly decorated with a Dutch biergarten table and a white brick wall clad in ivy and grapevine. The string shelving was purchased from the Golborne Road flea market, and the vintage ammeter from the clearance sale of a local school. The mint green clip lamp is from Ikea and the ivory espresso machine is KitchenAid.