New Team Members!!!

Yes - we have had the good fortune to be quite busy lately. What is even more fortunate is that this has given us the opportunity to strengthen the KSKC family by adding some truly talented and highly skilled team members. Thank you for embracing us and allowing KSKC the opportunity to provide each project the valuable contributions that these individuals offer. I will be updating our website soon with each new team member's personal bio - so I will keep introductions short and sweet for now.

Melissa is the KSKC Showroom Manager

melissa@kingstreetkitchencompany.com

Melissa Steiner joined our team in October '09 - just in time to help out with the Fall Upper King Design Walk. Originally from Atlanta, Melissa relocated to Charleston after earning a Culinary degree. While still in Atlanta, Melissa had the opportunity to sit on the other side of the table as a consultant for the renovation of her family's Atlanta home. As it turns out, the designer for this project was none other than yours truly!

Erica is a KSKC Lead Designer & European Kitchen Specialist

erica@kingstreetkitchencompany.com

Erica Slowik, originally from Virginia (my home state as well), relocated to Charleston after working for almost a decade as a Lead Designer for one of the country's most recognizable contemporary kitchen companies in NYC. Erica has been very influential in the incorporation of KSKC's European product offering.

Logan is a KSKC Design Assistant

logan@kingstreetkitchencompany.com

Logan Bond is a Charleston Native and a current a senior at The College of Charleston majoring in Historic Preservation. Logan also has family ties in Virginia where, ironically, we met for the first time just after his mother's Mini Schnauzer had given birth to a litter of puppies - my introduction to the breed. Our next meeting, almost 15 years later, was at the KSKC showroom where Logan applied for an internship position.

McGregor is a KSKC Project Design Manager

mcgregor@kingstreetkitchencompany.com

McGregor Jordan is not so much "New" as he is "Official" now. McGregor has a background in the Kitchen & Bath Industry through a local plumbing supply company - but is amazingly proficient in most all aspects of the industry. From cabinetry design & construction to Lighting design - McGregor has had his fingers in every aspect of both new construction and renovation projects. His technical proficiency no doubt is a reflection of background in Engineering. McGregor is an Auburn University graduate with a degree in Mechanical Engineering.

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International "Good Design"

The International "Good Design" award is the world's oldest and most coveted good design award. This design competition, founded by architects Charles & Ray Eames, Eero Saarinen, and Edgar Kaufmann, Jr. in Chicago in 1950, was created to bring global recognition to the world's most influential designers. The award is presented to those that advance new, visionary, and innovative product concepts that represent originality that pushes beyond what is considered to be "ordinary" consumer designs. Today, two of the most influential Architecture and Design organizations, The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies, work together to narrow down the thousands of entries to those concepts that will go down in history as industry leading ideas.

At King Street Kitchen Company we are proud to represent two organizations, Allmilmo Cabinetry and Gaggenau Professional Appliances, that have been honored with this award. In fact, the number of award winning products created by these two innovative leaders in the Kitchen & Bath Industry is simply to vast for a simple blog entry. Below, I have highlighted several of the most recent recognitions of the "Good Design" award.

The Allmilmo "Wave" Kitchen, seen above and below, features a uniquely contoured door that is available in a plethora of highly durable "Diamond Lacquer" color combinations. Samples are available for preview at the King Street Kitchen Company Showroom.

As many of you know, the name Gaggenau has been synonymous with not only "Good Design", but as a representation of true restaurant quality kitchen appliances. I recently read a blog forum that a US engineer had posted his oven temperature test results on. He found that not only did the Gaggenau ovens have a consistent temperature reading throughout the entire oven compartment, but the temperature read out on the appliance itself was 100% accurate AND when he opened and closed the oven door, the unit re-established the desired cooking temperature before his precision equipment could even detect a temperature change. I have always been impressed by the quality of the Gaggenau product, but reading this unsolicited feedback simply blew me away.

Pictured above is the innovative Gaggenau "lift oven". Below, the Gaggenau refrigerator column which features a stainless steel interior, cantilevered glass shelving with button adjustment controller, and front / back lighting. Upon first seeing this unit at The National Kitchen & Bath Association Industry Show the first words out of my mouth were "wow - a jewelry cabinet for your food".

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Ink Architecure One-Year Celebration!

Just left Architect Anita King's celebration of her firm, InkArchitectureLLC.com, one year birthday. My favorite goodie of the evening - House shaped cookies home made by Anita herself!! They were so yummy that I had to have two!!! (shhh, don't tell anyone).

Strangely enough I now have an overwhelming desire to design a new house! Anita? What exactly did you put in these cookies & more importantly, when can we start on my new house?!?! Can we start
tonight by any chance? ;-)

The party was great & the cookies really were super yummy!

King Street Kitchen Co. and Halls Chophouse team up for charity cooking demo | TheDigitel Charleston

King Street Kitchen Co. and Halls Chophouse team up for charity cooking demo | TheDigitel Charleston

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Beautiful hardware

Recently added hardware at our Daniel Island project. It really makes
the focal hutch cabinet "pop". Sourced through Foxworth decorative
hardware in Mt. P.