Urban Homes, the award-winning kitchen and bath designer showroom in New York City, presents the U.S. debut of “Timeline,” a new signature kitchen collection from Aster Cucine, one of the European leaders in innovative kitchen design. The Timeline collection marks the first collaboration of its kind between an Italian kitchen manufacturer and an American design firm, workshop/apd.
For the Timeline collection, Matthew Berman and Andrew Kotchen, design principals at workshop/apd, drew upon the history of craftsmanship and artisanship in centuries past to create a kitchen collection with a “vintage” look and feel for contemporary life. Familiar but unconventional in a modern kitchen, the innovative collection features exquisite cabinetry, countertops and backsplash accents in the finest selection of materials including Venetian ceruse (a whitening compound used in the 16th century on human skin as well as cabinetry) applied to white oak; wire mesh inspired by French country cabinets, antique mirror glass; oxidized metal, weathered steel, and bronzed glass.