Designer Robert Stilin recreated Ina Garten's (Barefoot Contessa) famous Hamptons kitchen as House Beautiful's Kitchen of the Year in Rockefeller Center. The huge island isn't just perfect for TV - it's also an ideal way to entertain. Fabulous, as Barefoot would say.
I dislike the kitchen tap on a "central" benchtop but this
shows how, by embracing it in a clever way, it does not seem to be so much a main prep area under the nose of guests.