For an award-winning Italian chef whose restaurants are regarded as the créme de la créme, only the best will do when it comes to his own home kitchen. Dutch Made frameless cabinets (in a Dove White finish) anchor the space with a clean, modern sensibility and contrast crisply to countertops and walls in black Vermont granite. A stunning waterfall island, with a dramatically veined macaubas azul quartzite stone top, creates lots of wow. So do glass-front cabinets with illuminated walnut interiors that transform everything they hold into a series of artful displays.

Shane Mulcahy and Dana Escalona, designers, Coastal Home Design Studio