Kitchen(s) of the Week: 12 Cook Spaces in Stylish Stainless Steel

For a while now we’ve been (happily) noticing the revival of the stainless steel kitchen; popular in the seventies/eighties but not so much until lately. Here’s a roundup of some recent favorites:

Above: A kitchen in Stockholm via Coco Lapine Design. Above: From Japan, Sanwa’s Grad 45 kitchen is also available in a slimmed-down version. Above: A recent favorite: a shiny Alpes Inox stainless kitchen in Seaside Scandi : A 1970s Cabin Makeover on the Danish Riviera. Photography by Martin Neve, courtesy of Studio Force Majeure (@studioforcemajeure). Above: A kitchen by Italian makers Abimis for the Palazzo Segreti in Rome. Above: A kitchen rendering for an apartment in Warsaw, Poland, by Julia Bimer. Above: A freestanding, unfitted kitchen sold à la carte by Toolbox in Japan, for more, see The Unfitted Kitchen from Toolbox in Tokyo. Above: A kitchen with stainless components by Australian designer Amelda Wilde. Above: A kitchen by Copenhagen-based Frama. Above: A loft in Paris by Festen Architecture, with a kitchen featuring Abimis components; see more at Kitchen of the Week: An All-Stainless Design in a Paris Loft. Above: A favorite from our archives: Qb3 Hoeber Loft in Philadelphia. Above: A while back, we featured this kitchen by Emerick Architects in Portland; see the full story at Loft Living: An Energy-Efficient Oasis in Portland, Oregon. Above: A Reform kitchen in Copenhagen by French architect Jean Nouvel; for the full story, go to Everything Is Illuminated in a Light-Flooded Kitchen in Copenhagen.

For more kitchen ideas, see:

• Trend Alert: Sideboard as Kitchen
• Trend Alert: Tiled Kitchen Islands

N.B.: This story originally appeared on November 9, 2023 and has been updated with new additions.