Photo: Erik & Petra Hesmerg

Private Residence Interior

Lanaken / Belgium / 2007

Bronze and polished stainless steel sculptural kitchen 

Client: Private Client

Net Area: 80 m2

Fabrication: Mazoratti-Ronchetti (IT)

Photo: Erik & Petra Hesmerg

This kitchen was designed for a friend who is a devoted art collector and a devoted gardener. The kitchen stands right between the magnificent collection and the magnificent garden. When we were approached to do this project we had just finished working on the sculpture for Zion Square where we created a cellular kaleidoscopic canopy looking at the sky and the top of the surrounding buildings. Here, the garden is no less spectacular than the Jerusalem sky, and the objective was to bring the garden into the kitchen.

We tried a similar mirrored, cellular structure, but this time with a horizontal orientation. The garden does indeed appear as some kind of fata morgana in the house. It is very difficult to tell the real from the reflected. The garden view is enjoyed whether you face the garden, while say washing the dishes, or when you have your back to the garden, at the cooker and the fridge. The outer skin of the cells is made of bronze and the inner of mirror-polished stainless steel. Whereas in the Jerusalem sculpture all the cells taper into one vanishing point vertically pointing to the centre of the earth, here the orientation of the vanishing point is horizontal, pointing at the art collection in the living space.

Photo: Erik & Petra Hesmerg