A São Paulo Home Stages a Showdown Between Matching Indoor and Outdoor Kitchens
When your backyard is your living room—and vice versa—you have to be prepared to cook dinner anywhere.
When your backyard is your living room—and vice versa—you have to be prepared to cook dinner anywhere.
On the outside, it’s a humble and unassuming house, a simple gabled white box squeezed in by its neighbors on a São Paulo street, unadorned except for piercing red window frames. But inside it opens up like a cathedral, with a ceiling soaring 40 feet above a nave-like atrium that runs the height of the building’s three stories. It’s illuminated by daylight from above and a wall of windows—framed in the same shocking red—in the rear of the house that separates the kitchen from, well, the kitchen.
On the interior, a conventional kitchen continues right up to the window wall, which opens via sliding doors to a courtyard-like outdoor room, and the other kitchen, the open-air counterpart to the interior space. The countertops and cooking surfaces seem to pass through the glass to create one continuous culinary line. It’s the most memorable move in a home designed to give a sense of being in nature on a narrow urban lot.
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