Wednesday, November 11, 2015

How to Create a Seriously Stylish--and Organized--Pantry

By Elizabeth Stamp for Architectural Digest.

Everything is in its place in these beautiful pantries from the AD archives.

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(photo: Björn Wallander)


Designer Barbara Westbrook fashioned a gracious, party-ready home boasting two pantries for longtime clients in South Carolina. In the butler's pantry, diamond-pattern glass door fronts and a crystal chandelier lend a dressed-up look to the cabinetry.

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(photo: Björn Wallander)


To provide a handsome focal point in the storage pantry, which is visible from the foyer, Westbrook backed open shelving with a slab of Italian marble; the space, off the kitchen, has its own sink and appliances and functions as a secondary prep area.

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(photo: Pieter Estersohn)


Antique Wedgwood and Coalport china is stored in the pantry of architect Jim Joseph and musical theater composer Scott Frankel's upstate New York home.

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(photo: Joshua McHugh)


The pantry of architect Alison Spear's Hudson Valley, New York, home is outfitted with a 1930s pendant light and heirloom china; the dishwasher is by Miele.

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(photo: Pieter Estersohn)


In the Nashville, Tennessee, home he shares with his partner, TV executive John Shea, designer Ray Booth devised a working pantry lined with open shelves for tableware. The sink and fittings are by Kohler.

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(photo: Mary E. Nichols)


Shoji-like doors conceal the pantry in the Los Angeles home of actress Jamie Lee Curtis and her husband, actor and director Christopher Guest.

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