INTERIOR DESIGN/PROFESSIONAL PRACTICE

Bulthaup

German kitchen architecture, built for New York residences.

Interior Design & Project Coordination · Bulthaup New York · Luxury residential kitchens

Bulthaup New York residence — open living kitchen with a double-sided concrete fireplace, paper-lantern pendants, and a forest view through full-height glass
Open living kitchen — concrete hearth, b3 cabinetry, forest beyond

Overview

Design and project-coordination experience inside Bulthaup New York — the American flagship of the German manufacturer whose b3 and b Solitaire systems are among the most exacting kitchens built today.

The studio works almost entirely in luxury residential kitchens — a book that runs to several million dollars a year — where a kitchen is treated as architecture: a system of cabinetry, stone, steel, and light fitted to a specific room and a specific client. Each project travels the full path from first concept through to installation.

My work sat across that path — design support, AutoCAD drawings and documentation, and the client, vendor, and trade coordination that keeps a drawing honest all the way to the installed room. The pages that follow show the environment, the material language, and several of the named residential projects, with their drawing sets linked as documentation.

Material Palette

Sampled from the work — plaster, steel, oak, stone, and the light beyond the glass.

Plaster White

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Brushed Steel

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Oak

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Concrete / Stone

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Forest Dusk

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Role / Scope

Areas of contribution within the studio’s project workflow — design and coordination support across the path from concept to installation.

  • Design support
  • Project coordination
  • Client and vendor coordination
  • Drawings and documentation (AutoCAD)
  • Concept-to-installation support
  • Material and product coordination

Selected Work

Residential kitchens and interiors from the Bulthaup New York studio.

Bulthaup b3 kitchen — stainless-steel island and worktop, white high-gloss cabinetry, stainless open shelving, ceiling-mounted extractor
b3 kitchen — stainless steel and white high-gloss
White b3 kitchen beneath a vaulted ceiling with a freestanding concrete fireplace and forest view
Vaulted living kitchen — concrete hearth
Stainless-steel galley kitchen with open shelving and a colour-grid artwork on a white wall
Stainless galley — open shelving
White island kitchen at night — three globe pendants, cane-back stools, warm under-cabinet and toe-kick light
Evening — island kitchen under warm light
Kitchen in oak and grey stone with white upper cabinets and integrated under-cabinet lighting
Oak and grey stone
Installed oak and grey-stone kitchen — long island, integrated lighting, light wood floor
Installed — oak island and stone worktop
Bulthaup credenza in matte grey set against a faded fresco wall and a carved antique stove — old and new in tension
b3 credenza against a fresco wall
Installed oak galley kitchen at night — grey stone worktop, illuminated wall cabinets, brushed-steel mixer taps
Installed galley — evening
Glass-walled residence at dusk among bare trees, a single boulder in a raked gravel garden, the lit kitchen glowing within
Residence at dusk — the kitchen seen from the garden

Residential Projects

A selection of named residential projects coordinated within the studio. Each carries a drawing set — plans, elevations, and coordination — available below as a PDF.

120 Whitlock

Residential kitchen · drawing set

A residential kitchen worked from plan through documentation — cabinetry layout, elevations, and the coordination that carries a b3 system from drawing into a built room.

Floor plans (PDF) ↗

Wooster Street

SoHo residence · drawing set

A downtown loft kitchen — a long stainless and oak run set into an open plan, drawn and coordinated so the architectural shell and the kitchen system resolve as one.

Floor plans (PDF) ↗

Ledge House Kitchen

Country residence · drawing set

A vaulted living-kitchen opening to forest — concrete fireplace, white b3 cabinetry, and a long island, documented and coordinated from concept toward installation.

Floor plans (PDF) ↗

Feder Residence

Residential · mechanical coordination

Mechanical coordination for a residential kitchen — reconciling the appliance, ventilation, and services package against the cabinetry and the room.

Mechanicals (PDF) ↗

What this demonstrates

Fluency in a demanding luxury-residential environment — carrying a kitchen from concept through AutoCAD documentation to a coordinated installation, with a sustained sensitivity to material, light, and scale.

  • High-end residential interior environment
  • Spatial and material sensitivity
  • Kitchen / interior systems thinking
  • Client-facing coordination
  • Technical and visual communication (AutoCAD)
  • Full project workflow — concept to installation
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