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ColourfullyGrey
Kitchen designer Johnny Grey shares his latest passions for making kitchens ‘happier’
and explains to Ros Anderson why he has his sights set on 10 Downing Street
Passionate,
idiosyncratic and with a distinctive style,
Johnny Grey is a designer whose ideas
have influenced kitchens in the UK for
decades. Grey trained as an architect at the
London architectural association school
of architecture, graduating in 1977, but
almost immediately began designing and
building his own kitchen furniture. in 1987
his concept of the ‘Unfitted Kitchen’ was
licensed to smallbone, filtering his ideas into
the mainstream.
today, he maintains a showroom in
the Us as well as a studio and workshop
in Hampshire. named as ‘the Kitchen
Designer’s Designer’ by Homes & Gardens
magazine, he has relentlessly promoted ideas
of craftsmanship and ergonomics in the
kitchen via talks, interviews, conferences and
five books including the Hardworking House,
Kitchen Culture and the art of Kitchen Design,
first published in 1994 and still in print.
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