"Architect Takashi Yanai's Los Angeles kitchen is the size of his clients' walk-in closets. A partner at Ehrlich Yanai Rhee Chaney Architects (and a graduate of Harvard's School of Design), Yanai, who was born in Japan and grew up in Santa Monica, oversee's the firm's residential projects: he's a master at designing clean-lined California dream houses that are all about indoor-outdoor living."
"After stripping the living area to its bare bones, Yanai put up a partition finished with marine plywood that neatly divides the new kitchen from the living room. And in place of what had been a "tired suburban kitchen," he installed a single-sided galley using components from top-of-the-line German modular cabinetry company Bulthaup. Yanai combined these with a back storage wall of marine plywood, which conceals the fridge."
Takashi Yanai remodeled a 1,500-square-foot 1950s ranch into a compact home that fuses Japanese formalism with barefoot Los Angeles sensibility. The family of four remained in the house while Yanai set up a temporary kitchen in the garage. He stripped the living area to its bare bones and installed a marine-plywood partition to separate the new kitchen from the living room. A single-sided galley uses Bulthaup modular cabinetry opposite a marine-plywood storage wall that conceals the fridge. A Danish-modern teak flip-top desk and bookshelf create a study in lieu of an island, while a dining table offers a view.
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