Kitchen Clarity Adventures in Kitchen and Bath Design

It’s sometimes funny, the words and letters that are used for kitchen decoration – this picture, posted on the kitchenisms blog, started me thinking. The kitchen is about as English as it could be, with the black Aga and the creamy Shaker cabinets, and then there’s that little sign, Cuisine. Helpful no doubt, if you didn’t notice it’s a kitchen?

Now here is a lovely kitchen from the Italian company Minacciolo, it is part of their “English” collection – and again, the letters spelling out Cuisine are tucked away in the background:

And of course, there’s this example from Ideal Home that was in my post Creating a Cottage Kitchen:

So, I wonder, if writing kitchen in French makes an English style kitchen, what do the French write in their kitchens? A quick visit to Marie Claire Maison resulted in these gems:

Interesting, don’t you think? Kind of like the whole French Horn/Cor Anglais thing in music. Here’s a typically understated Nordic take on the idea, via LinkImage:

But perhaps my favorite, the last word on what word belongs in the kitchen, is this one (via auFeminin.com). I’m sure it’s very existential, if only I could be sure what exactly existentialism was:

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