News — Pegboards

We love when we come across a project where the architect is also the client. Architects’ homes tend to be full of design ingenuity, and Jack Chen’s apartment in Richmond, Australia, a suburb just outside of Melbourne, is no different. Chen’s rather remarkable home is all of 377-square-feet, yet, through multipurpose furniture, hidden storage, and disappearing built-ins, he’s able to fit everything he needs into the tiny apartment—including a bedroom, an office nook, a dining table, and a hardworking kitchen. “I have always been interested in small apartment designs. It is quite popular in other countries, but in Australia the...

There’s not a year that goes by that we don’t come across a gushing tribute to Julia Child’s revolutionary use of pegboards in her kitchen. No wonder: Her ability to see beauty in the humble and her elevation of organization to an art form still feels fresh and relevant today. Recently, we saw a kitchen storage method that floored us in a similar way as Child’s pegboards. And, naturally, we spotted it in the home of two professional chefs: famed London culinary couple Margot and Fergus Henderson. Margot is the chef/co-owner of Rochelle/Canteen and the newly opened Rochelle/ICA; Fergus—dubbed “an...

There’s not a year that goes by that we don’t come across a gushing tribute to Julia Child’s revolutionary use of pegboards in her kitchen. No wonder: Her ability to see beauty in the humble and her elevation of organization to an art form still feels fresh and relevant today. Recently, we saw a kitchen storage method that floored us in a similar way as Child’s pegboards. And, naturally, we spotted it in the home of two professional chefs: famed London culinary couple Margot and Fergus Henderson. Margot is the chef/co-owner of Rochelle/Canteen and the newly opened Rochelle/ICA; Fergus—dubbed “an...