You guys, why do I love all things British so much? I dooooooo!

I can’t believe my lucky but I got to be quoted in a BBC article, now add to that it was about luxury kitchens, features a photo from one of our Westlake Village home renovation with kitchen and bath remodel and now add my favorite sink of all the sinks, Shaw’s of Darwen. Oh my goodness. You know it’s part of the glorious House of Rohl.

Here’s a big quote “Nature and Nurture

For clients keen to welcome Mother Nature into their kitchen, Shannon Ggem, a Malibu-based interior designer who specializes in updating older homes, focuses on the view from the kitchen sink – the most important one in the entire kitchen. When the owner of a sprawling LA area estate, Uberlandia, hired Ggem to remodel the kitchen, Ggem responded by mixing biophilic design with functional thinking. “She’s a super chef,” Ggem explains of the homeowner, so she opted to add a set of French doors leading to the yard to make dining alfresco easier and enlarged the main kitchen window for a better garden view. As a final touch, Ggem placed a Shaws sink in front of the main kitchen window to enhance the natural vista and serve as an organic focal point of the room – a focal point that marries form, function, and craftsmanship to create a true sense of nature in the home.

“Shaws is nature,” Ggem reflects. “People feel disconnected from things that are machine-made; it’s easier to feel connected to a handmade thing. It tells the story of the person behind the product.”


Thank you Samantha Vogel Maria Hunt

Here are a bunch of times our clients welcomed nature into their luxury kitchens!

Photos 1, 3, 4, 5 7 and 8 Mike Kelley