Article: Counter trends: American kitchens embraced the future--and the past.

Time marches on, but for America's kitchens, it marches backward as well as forward. A growing emphasis on the kitchen as a multipurpose living space has given architects and designers the freedom to reinvent the room whole. Some have seized the opportunity--and an ever-expanding palette of materials and equipment--to take the kitchen where it has never gone before, using stone, glass, metals, and exotic woods in new and inventive ways. * Another breed of kitchen, designed for traditional or vintage homes, looks to the past for inspiration. Not content with a vague, superficial traditionalism, though, designers now use historical references--a slate farm sink, cabinetry ...

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