Live-Work Kitchen Names Still Need Faces

Live-work kitchen specification is finished only when the cabinet faces and the adjacent 304 stainless steel body are written before a factory quotes the work. A published GRID or seating name is a planning reference, not proof that every nearby face belongs on the Fadior ticket. Keep 304 stainless steel cabinet-body claims on their own line.

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No. Naming GRID tells the planning side which live-work furniture the buyer already used. The factory still needs written live-work kitchen specification: which cabinet faces and 304 stainless steel bodies stay on the ticket, which seating name stays a planning label, and that GRID stays off the cut list. Until those lines exist, the brief can look finished while the factory ticket is still open.

Quilt is a 2009 chair and sofa with stretch-fabric pockets and foam inserts. The 2020 GRID extension is a bespoke room-within-a-room for home working, with seating, shelves, tables, charging stations and screens. Keep those pieces in the furniture plan and specify the kitchen cabinet lengths separately.

Record the cabinet faces, the 304 stainless steel cabinet-body specification, and the confirmed cabinet SKU, price and lead time. Keep Established & Sons furniture and lighting documentation with the interior plan, including the Aura lamp reference.

On its own cabinet-body line. Fadior cabinet bodies use 304 stainless steel. Doors, finishes and counters follow their own documents. GRID veneer, Quilt fabric and mahogany kitchen references belong with the interior design plan. Send only 304 stainless steel cabinet work to manufacturing and consultation.

The references from 2009, 2019, 2020 and 2024 cover furniture, a home-working furniture extension and a lamp in a Paris apartment. Use these as interior planning references and keep the 2026 kitchen quotation focused on the selected cabinet bodies, doors and dimensions.

  1. Designboom 2019 GRID page

    22 May 2019: GRID by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec for Established & Sons at Clerkenwell Design Week, the live-work brief, the L-shaped module with two 2.5-metre-long sides, and the room-within-a-room shell for seating, shelves, tables and screens.

  2. Designboom 2020 GRID page

    9 September 2020: the COVID-19 home-working extension of GRID, charging stations, the bespoke room-within-a-room, and Sebastian Wrong as Established & Sons design director.

  3. Designboom Quilt page

    11 May 2009: the Quilt chair and sofa at Milan Design Week 09 and the pocketed stretch-fabric upholstery with foam inserts.

  4. Architectural Digest Paris apartment page

    22 January 2024: the yellow resin Aura lamp by Sabine Marcelis for Established & Sons in a Paris apartment; mahogany kitchen cabinets by the interior designer.

  5. ASTM International homepage

    Standards-body reference.

  6. worldstainless homepage

    Stainless steel industry reference.

  7. NKBA homepage

    Kitchen and bath industry association.

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