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The kitchen has been the darling of interior design aficionados for quite some time. As for what makes for the best kitchen—well, that’s a matter of personal taste. Some like them bright, light, and white—and undeniably modern, sleek, and streamlined. Others are partial to a more rustic aesthetic and the French variety of this subset in particular. Others still seek out kitchens that break free from the proverbial bundt cake mold, opting to bring exceptionally unique and colorful spaces to life.
Over the years, AD has featured thousands of kitchens in its pages, speaking to a litany of different tastes in the process. Below, we present 31 of our personal archival favorites. Altogether, they represent a wide swath of this stylistic gambit—from exuberant and pattern-wrapped to clean-lined and contemporary. Read on to browse the creations of some of the best interior designers working today. You’ll also find detailed sourcing information and more than a few enticing tidbits along the way, from Anne Hathaway’s Swiss-inspired cook space to the room in which artist Urs Fischer makes the culinary magic happen.
A Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent New York Kitchen
Calacatta marble was used for the countertops, backsplash, and oven hood in the kitchen of Nate Berkus and Jeremiah Brent’s Manhattan townhouse that AD toured in 2020. Nonetheless, it is the smaller details of this scene—the wire cabinet screens and symmetrically placed lamps—that stand out as the most distinctive features of this image. Moreover, the bigger story of this feature was not so much an ode to marble but the very fact that the family had picked up and left behind their California home. “One thing I can promise you,” Berkus commented to AD this spring, “is that I will never again tell a publication that a house is my ‘forever home.’” “We learned our lesson,” Brent added. “We shan’t be saying that again!” Given that self-awareness, it should come as no surprise that just two years later, the couple and their two children opened the door to a different Manhattan townhouse they’d swapped this one for. And yet we’re still quite fond of this particular New York kitchen.