The Glas 1 kitchen design is from Key Cucine. It’s the sort of kitchen that would neatly fit into one end of a Great Room devoted to both kitchen and family. What I find especially appealing is the way in which the supremely practical has been seamlessly integrated into the world of minimalism.

The Furniture Guild is doing the very kind of work I like to think I would be doing if I were head of so large a facility, which is to produce cabinetry made with pride, integrity, and the finest lumber and hardware.

Minimal is an Italian kitchen designer and manufacturer that is becoming a world-wide presence, thanks to its showrooms in both the USA and Canada and visions like the Verve, which is a kitchen concept that is utterly conducive to this entire idea of a kitchen-at-one-end-of-a-Great-Room concept.

Another element of platform beds is here before us in these wonderful designs from Rossetto Armobil. They are beds with an inherent grace that brings tranquility to the rooms in which they reside. Also, all of the beds shown here have an option of a large storage compartment under the mattress.