small galley kitchen doubles as the family study
Architect Takashi Yanai’s Los Angeles kitchen area is the measurement of his clients’ wander-in closets. A companion at Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects (and a graduate of Harvard’s School of Design), Yanai, who was born in Japan and grew up in Santa Monica, oversee’s the firm’s residential tasks: he’s a master at developing clean up-lined California aspiration residences that are all about indoor-out of doors residing.
His own recently transformed 1950s ranch residence, though substantially additional modest in scope, is a microcosmos of the Yanai sensibility: Japanese formalism meets barefoot LA. We found Yanai’s spot in Inventive Spaces, the Poketo team’s very first e book: see LA Noir: Takashi Yanai’s Humble-Chic Bungalow. Currently, we’re returning to acquire a closer glance at the kitchen area and its lessons in spatial economics and understated fashion.
Pictures by Ye Rin Mok, from Artistic Areas.
After stripping the living spot to its bare bones, Yanai set up a partition concluded with maritime plywood that neatly divides the new kitchen area from the residing home. And in spot of what experienced been a “tired suburban kitchen,” he put in a one-sided galley making use of elements from major-of-the-line German modular cabinetry business Bulthaup. Yanai mixed these with a back storage wall of maritime plywood, which conceals the fridge. And for the reason that the household was in need of a location to get the job done, as a substitute of setting up in a table or island, he additional a bookshelf and desk—a Danish-present day teak flip-top rated structure by Peter Lovig Nielsen—and turned the other 50 % of the place into a analyze. Of course, there’s also a dining table with a check out (see beneath).