This Week H&H cleans out their editorial drawers and tosses up a grab bag of interesting articles (8 in all!). Since we don't want to skew the vote (we got slapped last week), we will leave our review at this:
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- At home with Francine du Plessix Gray: Ms. Gray reveals her home and domestic life on the eave of the release of her memoir, "Them."
The cork floor question would have been better answered by a cook or at least a cook in conjunction with an architect. as wise as most architects are, they generally aren't as attuned to these issues of kitchen floor usage as an actual cook would be. One of my best friends has been a home chef for years and often sings the praises of a cork floor. When you are cooking all day, cushioning counts...
And why did the writer tepidly praise cork floor in the whole article and then slam it in the last line? I was confused. Make me want a cork floor then ooops not so fast.
The cork flooring question could be an excellent issue for AT to examine.
Only last night on HGTV I saw Kenneth Brown on reDesign put a cork floor in someone's place (I didn't see the entire show). That's the first time in a very long time that I remember it mentioned, and then this. Actually forgot to buy the paper yesterday -- thanks for this little round-up. Thursday is the only day I ever buy it.
Which leads me to another thing -- just like I would like to buy a CD of the Smallest Coolest Apartment Contest, I would LOVE to buy such a thing, I dunno, say -- annually or semi-annually, or something of the NYT House and Home section. It's a nightmare to archive and the way (at the moment that I now keep them stored looks like I have little pockets of my apartment (all hidden) that remind me of those (long-since-dead) crazy brothers (whose last name I can't remember) in Harlem who never threw papers away.
If memory serves, architect Aida of the Kitchen Contest used a very dark cork floor to gorgeous effect. And cork has seemed to be a favorite of Debbie Travis...