A kitchen as a functional piece of art
A one-person atelier for ultra high-end bespoke kitchens. Dark timber, honed stone and warm metal, engineered exclusively with Blum hardware.
View the workThe atelier
I do not take on every project. I take on the right one, and I hold the detail to the last millimetre.
Drawing
I measure the room myself, then draw it to the millimetre. Sightlines, reveals and shadow gaps are resolved on paper long before anything is machined.
How a commission runsMaterial
Smoked oak, fluted walnut, matte lacquer, veined stone, brass and copper. High-end surfaces only. Nothing rustic, nothing farmhouse.
See the materials in useMotion
Blum exclusively. LEGRABOX drawers, AVENTOS lift systems, SERVO-DRIVE motion and BLUMOTION soft close on every project.
Why Blum onlySelected work
Recent kitchens
Kitchens
Only kitchens. Nothing else leaves the workshop.
A few
A handful of commissions accepted each year.
One hand
Every drawing made by me, from survey to install.
Blum
Specified once, never substituted.
The person behind it
You deal with me, start to finish.
I founded Apex Designs because high-end kitchens kept being handed along a chain, from designer to salesperson to installer, with the detail lost somewhere in between. Here it does not work that way. I measure your space, draw it, choose the materials with you, and I am on site when it goes in.
A few commissions a year, each treated as if it were going into my own home. If that is how you would like to build, I would like to see your plans.
Journal
Notes from the bench
Why a three millimetre reveal changes a whole room
The gap between two doors is not a tolerance. It is a decision, and it sets the rhythm of everything you look at afterwards.
Choosing a slab: veining, book-matching and the cut you cannot undo
Stone is bought by the piece, not the square metre. Standing in the yard with a marker is the most important hour of the project.
The part of a kitchen you touch a hundred times a day
Doors and drawers are the interface. Specifying the motion once, and never substituting it, is the least glamorous luxury in the room.
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Tell me about your space
Send through your plans, a moodboard, or a rough idea. Consultations are unhurried and carry no obligation.
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