Today kitchens are more sophisticated than ever with smart appliances, sleek and seamless ‘invisible’ cabinetry and clever ...

Reading Deborah Sugg Ryan’s whistle-stop tour of kitchen history (House & Home, FT Weekend, August 28), I recall my grandfather, John Henry Boothman, was one of the pioneers of fitted units in British ...

Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. In 1977, the cookery writer Elizabeth David wrote an article in which she described her ideal kitchen. Her ...

In the year 1926, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky revolutionized domestic design by creating the Frankfurt Kitchen, aimed at maximizing cooking efficiency for urban dwellers. While around 10,000 of these ...

Furniture chain Habitat is to begin selling fitted kitchens as it seeks to cash in on the surge in sales in the big-ticket category. Retailers including Ikea, B&Q and Wickes have revealed strong sales ...

A kitchen renovation needn’t be hellish, nor should it empty the coffers. With a few well-chosen secondhand pieces, you can get all the functions of a fully fitted space, but at the fraction of the ...

Forget boring wall-to-wall cabinets and fitted appliances; creativity and astute flea-market purchases are redefining the modern kitchen Jessica Doyle is a senior editor and journalist at The ...