Home Inspiration With Margot Guralnick
The world's most stylish energy-efficient bulbs, the Plumen 001 and 002, look good naked. They also accessorize well. Of late Plumen has been collaborating with kindred designers all over on a range of shades tailor made to present the bulbs in the best light.
Above: Admired at ICFF and debuting this September, the Plumen Drop Top Lamp Shade is an in-house Plumen design that comes in white (shown), black, and amber.
Above: The Plumen Drop Top Shade in black. The London-based company has online UK, Euro, and US shops, and the new glass shade will be available at all three; $109.95 for the shade alone, and $174.95 for a set, including a Plumen Drop Cap Pendant and Plumen 001 bulb.
Above: Part of Plumen's Flat Pack Designer Lampshade Series, the Sphery 50 Wooden Light Shade is by UK designer Kirsty Patrick of By Kirsty; £195 ($304.41).
Above: A DIY invented by Plumen's Korean distributor: the Plumen 001 bulb ($34.95) and Drop Cap Pendant (currently on sale starting at $19.38) with a shade made from an Air Vase by Torafu Architects of Tokyo. The perforated paper comes flat and is designed to be shaped and reshaped in different ways, including as a vase, bowl, or shade. Air Vases are available from Kollekt; $29 for a pack of three in white or black. See more examples of Air Vase Shades.
Above: The new Niche Modern Crystalline Series Pendant Collection starts at $595 each.
Above: A collaboration between Plumen and London furniture and lighting firm Made, the Plume Pendant comes in Smoke Gray and Smoke Blue; £99 ($154.55), including 001 Bulb from Made.
Above: Designed by Plumen with Formaliz3d of Italy, the Kayan 3D Printed Lamp Shade is made of perforated ABS plastic created using 3-D modeling and printing. It works with the Baby Plumen 001 and Original Plumen 002; €149.95 ($234); inquire about US availability.
Above: Kayan shades in situ in Italy.
We're longstanding Plumen fans. See why in our World's Most Stylish Light Bulb posts, Version 001 and Version 002.
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Kitchens With Julie Carlson
Stuck in the city for the summer? Here are a few ideas for keeping your kitchen fresh, fly-free, and fragrant when heat strikes.
Above: Astier de Villatte Liquid Dish Soap; $25 from Nickey Kehoe in Los Angeles. Pricey, yes, but city dwellers deserve some consolation for spending the summer behind a laptop.
Above: The Anti-Fly Glass Sphere comes with a leather cord for hanging. The refraction of light against the water confuses insects, especially flies, and helps keep them at bay; $99 from Kaufmann Mercantile.
Above: If any flies do make it into the kitchen, consider the German-made Leather Fly Swatter; $14 from Schoolhouse Electric.
Above: Keep garbage cans smelling fresh with Hiba Wood Spray; $20 for the small size, $40 for the larger, from Spartan Shop. Hint: Spray a paper towel with scent and toss it in the bin before changing the trash bag.
Above: Add a summery note with a linen tea towel screen-printed with vintage photos from Serie Limitee Louise; shown above, the Omar Tea Towel features a lobster print; €24 ($26.58). Alder & Co. in Seattle offers the Flower Tea Towel for $35.
Find more kitchen luxuries worth considering in 11 Design Details to Steal from High-End Bespoke Kitchens.
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Kitchens With Margot Guralnick
Architect Sheila Narusawa came to this project when her high school boyfriend, Moncreiff Cochran (whom she hadn't seen in decades) was looking to build a house. She ended up marrying him—and designing a New England–inspired modernist hideaway for the two of them, shiplap-paneled kitchen included. Look closely: The room is filled with a career's worth of clever, cost-conscious design solutions.
Photography by Matthew Williams for Remodelista.
Above: Sheila practiced architecture in Tokyo before returning to home to Orleans, on Cape Cod, and her style is a mix of Yankee practicality and Japanese craftsmanship shot through with a Scandinavian love of light. A longtime opponent of flabby houses filled with little-used spaces, she decided to skip the dining room and have the kitchen serve as an all-purpose hub for cooking, eating, and entertaining.
Above: The key piece of furniture in the room, the dining table, was designed by Sheila and given to her and Mon as a wedding present from his siblings. Made of clear-grade Eastern white pine and fabricated by Rhode Island carpenter Nick Hollibaugh, a brother-in-law, it takes its shape from an antique trestle table but follows exacting specs. As Sheila explains, "It's eight feet long and 30 inches wide, magic numbers if you want a nice proportion that has length—its seats eight—and room for plates, but still allows for intimate conversations."
The fussiness ends there: The chairs are Ikea's $29 Stefan design, and the delicate bulbs suspended over the table are $261 Atlas Pendants.
Above: Another of Sheila's beliefs is that houses should be designed with cost tradeoffs in mind: Save here, spend there. Windows, in her book, are worth paying extra for—but only to a point. After originally speccing Marvin, she went with more affordable Andersen.
Throughout the house, Sheila used extra-long windows—they're 65 inches tall; 50 inches is standard—and she placed the sills only 19 inches above the floor. "The size and lowered sills extend the feeling of bringing the outside in and allow the house to breathe," she says.
Above: Radiant heat flooring efficiently warms the entire house, even in the height of winter. In the kitchen, it's supplemented by a wood-burning Rais 60 firebox inserted into a Majestic SRSH36 stove, raised to table level so it's fully in view. Wood is conveniently stowed in an insert underneath. The decoration on top (visible in the first two photos) is a paper garland found on Etsy.
Above: The custom cabinetry is all shiplap poplar, a painstaking tongue-and-groove construction borrowed from old Cape houses and painted with primer. (See The Enduring Appeal of Shiplap.) For a high/low mix, Sheila paired them with affordable butcher block counters and simple black metal squared-off drawer pulls from the hardware store.
Above: Cooking utensils hang from stainless steel Kitchen Rails by German company Rösle next to the stovetop.
Above: Mugs line the open shelves on the other end of the counter.
Of the Atlas Pendants, Sheila says, "It took me years to find a light I like for the kitchen because most are so homogenous and ambient. These send pools of light to surfaces. And they're so minimalist, they're one inch short of a bare bulb and almost invisible."
Above: The floor is made of Eastern white pine, "an inexpensive wood considered soft for this use," says Sheila, "but we wanted a raw, unfinished Scandinavian look." To lighten it, she washed the boards with a custom Benjamin Moore shade of warm gray and applied a Danish soap finish, a combination that requires periodic upkeep in high-trafficked areas ("polyurethane would help, but it would add a sheen," says Sheila.)
The walls are painted Deeptone Mixing Base, a flat latex from Pittsburg Paints' Manor Hall line, and the ceiling is poplar with a coat of primer. As another money-saving measure, Sheila and Mon did all of the interior painting themselves, ceilings and floor included.
Above: Wanting to keep visible clutter to a minimum, Sheila created a wall of tall storage cabinets on either side of the shiplap-paneled double-door fridge (shown here on the right). The pantry cabinet is devoted to cookbooks, bakeware, and dry goods.
Above: The appliance and tableware cabinet holds, among other things, a microwave, toaster, and breadbox. "Kitchen storage can be consolidated so that it doesn't overtake the room," says Sheila.
Above: The pullout shelves have outlets in the back.
Above: Spoons used for eating oatmeal are gathered in a bamboo holder.
Above: What to put on a high shelf? Nothing big and heavy or purely ornamental is allowed in Sheila's kitchen. Metal clamming baskets made the cut—they're interesting to look at and, on the Cape, useful to have on hand.
Want to see more? We explore the whole house in the Remodelista book. And we recently presented another design by Sheila: A Cottage Reborn in Coastal Maine.
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