Darwin's Kitchen...

The tops were to capture a time frame of the turn of the century and the the naturalist movement during the time of Darwin.  The tops were to be individual sections of stone carved out of the earth and joined with Japanese joinery having the illusion of being held together with the integrally cast bronze embed pins.
 

The custom carved fossil sink and the face panels produced a virtual environment that married the minimal color scheme throughout.  The realism of the fossil beds far exceeded the expectation....

The design behind this kitchen was to create a unique presentation of countertops in the main kitchen in and around the atrium.  The kitchen extensions looked very institutional akin to the original buildings in the bronx zoo.  While keeping true to the exploration and discover of nature through the period in which the home was built, we are experimenting with the leaders in science of the day; whereas, the process of evolution theorized by the naturalist Charles Darwin, the discoveries of new forms of life throughout the world and the discoveries of the vast beautify nature held and still holds are presenting in a tangible form.   And held within these surfaces are delicate fossil discovers like that of Carl Akeley, but these are peculiar fossils that seem to be left behind in an anomalous process that turned them into metallic form of Trilobites, ferns fish, etc.

This kitchen has select concrete drawer faces, custom edge detail and the home owner's children made imprints hidden within the fossil beds.

Not to mention fiber optics in the fossil sink and a shell depression  behind the farm sink.