A Brooklyn Brownstone Kitchen in Black and White By Shapeless Studio Architecture

Architects Andrea Fisk and Jess Thomas of Shapeless Studio are modernists with beating hearts. Their appreciate of workmanship, new and aged, and attention to life’s day by day aspects is on display in all of their household function, including their possess Brooklyn quarters: see The Sentimental Minimalist and A Soaring Star Architect’s Townhouse in Pinks, Grays, and Greens.

Admiring their projects on Remodelista is what led the entrepreneurs of this brownstone in Brooklyn’s Clinton Hill to work with the Shapeless Studio group on a makeover of their parlor floor. The 1867 Italianate structure came with a vintage living and dining home sequence primary into a 2007 kitchen area extension in the back. “The major aim of the renovation was to come across a way to far more seamlessly and deliberately combine the kitchen area with the other rooms though spending homage to the unique construction,” states Fisk.

“Our sensibility is normally far more modern, but we also required to honor the building’s historic details. Shapeless has that sensitivity,” reveal the clients—a landscape architect and a food items business professional with a toddler. “The kitchen and the yard were being our emphasis. We questioned that the room be basic, textured, and cleanse lined—and that it tie in with the rest of the house.” Scroll to the conclude for a glimpse of what the set up looked like in advance of.

Pictures by Hagan Hinshaw courtesy of Shapeless Studio.

We cook all the time, adore to have friends and loved ones about, and have a boy or girl, so the kitchen had to be quite functional, ” say the purchasers. “Nothing feels valuable, we can seriously live in the space, and we like the way the all-natural products will age.”

Fisk and Thomas sing the praises of their collaborators: all of the cabinetry was constructed to their layout by ABC Cabinet Makers: “They are really detail-oriented and talk all over the method.” And Sunshine Renovations Administration served as the standard contractor: “kind and thoughtful, and amazing at doing the job in the irregularity of previous townhouses.”

The kids’ desk and chairs is the All Dazzling set, designed of recycled plastic toys by ecoBirdy.

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