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Kitchen drawers take on new roles
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Maryland Gazette
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June 3, 2006
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If there's anything Zen in an American kitchen, it's the drawer.
Framed emptiness, drawers have always been defined by what is in
them - junk, silverware, potholders.
No more. At the Kitchen/Bath Industry Show last month in Chicago,
drawers rolled into a new state of being: the active.
Now they cook. They chill. They wash. They organize. And they do
it all out of sight, with visual modesty valued by those designing
and living in open-plan kitchens.
Open kitchens rely on islands as the work hub, and one way to
build functionality into an island is through dishwasher, microwave,
refrigerator and freezer drawers, explains Jeff Wimberly, director of
sales and marketing for Perlick Corp., which ...