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Borough Kitchen

The latest store of the eponymous Borough cookware brand on Chiswick High Road. The facade is reorganised using bronze frames and cladding, the interior employs a simple palette of walnut and lacquered steel.

“Chiswick is where you’ll find the purpose-built cookery school, designed by James Gorst Architects. It is (of course) extremely well equipped, with plenty of space at each workstation and whole host of European and Japanese knives for students to use.”

House & Garden, December 2018
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James Gorst’s work has helped to heal one of the most unnecessary and painful wounds in contemporary British architecture: between the traditionalists and the modernists. Like Louis Kahn in the United States or Peter Zumthor in Switzerland, Gorst reminds us that modernism can be beautifully reconciled with the underlying principles of classicism and that modern materials and idioms can carry all the elegance, dignity and grandeur associated with historical masterpieces.

Alain de Botton

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