Rational Exuberance (continued)
Baroque extravagance is tempered by modernist restraint
What the Pros Know
For the McGeehins' "kitchen as laboratory," Dixon chose SieMatic's SC 19 system (SieMatic.com); he lauds the German precision and patented mechanisms that create, says kitchen designer Jonas Carnemark of Konst, "30 percent more storage." (Roseann loves the self-closing drawers because "my husband has a tendency not to close them.") But Dixon injected variety with finishes and materials to avoid visual sterility. "The larger the kitchen," he notes, "the more you need to mix." So he paired industrial and natural materials (stainless steel against polished granite; lacquered and sandblasted glass cabinet doors against cerused imbuya wood chairs and cabinetry) as well as masculine and feminine characteristics (grays and coffee browns against blues and greens). In some cases, he double-mixed within these pairings, turning them on their ear. The kitchen island juxtaposes a "masculine" industrial material and shape (rectangular manufactured stone) in a "feminine" color (white) with a "feminine" material and shape (curvy stone) in a "masculine" color (black).
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