A charcoal grill, skylight or window wall will give you the feeling of being out of doors while you work in your kitchen. Here and on the next two pages is a remarkable kitchen that has all three, also combines many old-fashioned ideas with fresh, forward-looking embellishments. The barbecue, besides adding pleasure and variety to cooking, offers the warmth and comfort of a fire. A skylight floods work areas with light, gives you a glimpse of the sky when you have a moment to look up. The window wall frames a view, creates the feeling of being in a garden. There is a sympathetic play of cool colors against warm that provides a quiet, neutral background for paintings and the view. Astonishingly, the kitchen plan adapts conventional ideas of 30 years ago: a serving pantry with access to the front door and dining room; a breakfast room secluded from the kitchen and furnished as a separate entity; laundry and ironing space away from the kitchen proper. The center worktable, a base cabinet with a cutting board, has knee room for sitters and electric outlets for appliances, can be shifted to where you want it. Pantries subdivide storage, are supplemented by cabinets with trays and nooks for appliances, cutlery, baking equipment.
Barbecue grill doubles as a fireplace. It is placed at the end of a counter separating dining room, left, from breakfast area, right, has a revolving baffle that opens it to either side. The tiled counter acts as a serving table. Across it is a translucent panel with a sliding section that functions as a pass-through, throws kitchen and dining areas together for informal gatherings. The panel diffuses light from 9' wide sliding glass walls in the breakfast area, right, where there is a vista of a canyon and mountains. Silver and platters are stored under the counter on shallow, sliding trays that can be reached from either side. Owners: Mr. and Mrs. Harold P. Ullman, Santa Monica, Calif.; architect: Thornton M. Abell, A.I.A.; interior designer: Jane F. Ullman.
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source: House and Garden Magazine | August 1958
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