This book is dedicated to all the wonderful women who have given me inspiration，kindness and loyalty．The list includes special friends．clients and those who have enriched my lire a8 well as those who have worked for me．To Becca my wonderful wife，Guss my daughter，Ghristabel my late，gentle sister，Diana my loving mother，Anna my recent loyal business manager，Lucy my artist and sister—in—law，Libby my mother in law，Vidya my complimentary doctor，Peg my US CEO， Charlotte．dill and Sarah the talented teachers 0f all my children at Dunannie school，and my young nieces who represent the future—Katherine，Carmody，Rose and Sienna．

This book is dedicated to all the wonderful women who have given me inspiration，kindness and loyalty．The list includes special friends．clients and those who have enriched my lire a8 well as those who have worked for me．To Becca my wonderful wife，Guss my daughter，Ghristabel my late，gentle sister，Diana my loving mother，Anna my recent loyal business manager，Lucy my artist and sister—in—law，Libby my mother in law，Vidya my complimentary doctor，Peg my US CEO， Charlotte．dill and Sarah the talented teachers 0f all my children at Dunannie school，and my young nieces who represent the future—Katherine，Carmody，Rose and Sienna．

Foreword by Stephen Bayley

Introduction

Kitchen culture:

re-inventing home space

  A fresh home perspective

  The experience of space

  Food and foreign influences

  Psychology of kitchen culture

  Bodily comfort

  Influencing design

  The kitchen of the future

The core of kitchen design

  Good use of light

  Changing the parameters of a kitchen

  Soft geometry and its new partners

  Graceful locations

  Eccentric spaces

 A modern unfitted kitchen

 Better on a boat

 Releasing design energy

Communicating between space and people

  Creating the right atmosphere

  A sense of place

  Emotional intelligence

  A question of taste

  Originality and self-expression

Kitchen works:

design analysis

  Working up the design

  Lore of basic measurements

  Body ergonomics

  Design for cooking

  Soft geometry

  Style and aesthetics

  Appliances

Whole environment:

architectural opportunities

  Defining a room

  Space extensions

  Lighting design

Bibliography

Suppliers

Index

Acknowledgements