Living HOME
The kitchen is wrapped in Fenix laminate, an innovative material that uses thermal tech to “heal” itself from minor scratches. BELOW Pastry chef Karen Krasne inside her craftsman home.
countertop. And in the living room—which expands into a second, bamboo-flanked courtyard through massive stacking glass doors—a feature wall was inspired by traditional azulejos tile Krasne once saw in Spain. “We tried to take all these di ff erent influences— Morocco, Bali, and Paris, where Karen went to culinary school—and balance them with the edgier, modern stu ff ,” Anderson says. “It’s really hard to take a craftsman house and modernize it without it looking terrible, so I think one thing we all did well was elevating it without overtaking it.” The kitchen, where Krasne spends most of her time while she’s at home, was renovated last. A large island topped with a Japanese-inspired lithograph on natural quartz sits in the middle of the sunlit room, nearly always covered in a food spread for Krasne’s family and friends. Floor-to-ceiling, built- in cabinetry is coated with a self-healing gray Fenix laminate, giving the space a calming atmosphere. “Those,” Kranse says, gesturing to ornate, art- deco chandeliers hanging over the kitchen table, “are from an old opera house in Austria. I had them sprayed silver to match the sconces, which all came from the same opera house. I also wanted to bring in French Champagne buckets—I really wanted the space to be about us drinking wine and entertaining.”
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