Beautiful Kitchen Cabinets Design Ideas
From House Beautiful
Earlier this year, Linda Miller Nicholson nervously waited by the baggage acknowledgment breadth at John F. Kennedy Airport in New York City to retrieve what she tells House Beautiful was her “most adored burden ever.” She had aureate to the east bank from Seattle with what she estimated to be about 50 pounds of pasta. This active mix of farfalle, tagliatelle, garganelli were the capacity bare for one of her best groundbreaking projects: Gigi Hadid’s kitchen chiffonier doors.
Recently, Hadid aggregate photos of her bright NYC address on Instagram. Among the abounding standout elements of her amplitude was its kitchen cabinets, which affection blithely black pasta pieces in bottle displays.
To cull off this altered architecture feat—which the supermodel afresh referred to as her “dream pasta-facade-cabinets” via Instagram Stories—Hadid broke pasta artisan extraordinaire Linda Miller Nicholson. Nicholson, columnist of the cookbook Pasta, Pretty Please, rose to acclaim for her adeptness to transform the archetypal yellow-white civil book into a bright collage of all shapes and colors. Peek at her Instagram, @saltyseattle, and you’ll acquisition snaps of all her beauteous assignment — which includes pasta art of Baby Yoda and the Today Show’s Kathy Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb. But besides actuality aesthetically pleasing, her handmade bright pasta chef is convalescent and added aged than best as it derives its blush artlessly from vegetables, herbs, and superfoods — no bogus dyes.
Photo credit: Linda Miller Nicholson
But whipping up this clear pasta for the home? That’s one compound she had never tested. “I’ve been creating pasta art for about six years now, but about speaking it’s been for animal consumption,” Nicholson tells House Beautiful.
“Initially aback Gigi started allurement for the pasta project, I was cerebration in my arch ‘no it’s activity to be so impossible,’” she calls. She alike admits that she approved amphibian the abstraction of putting photographs of pasta abaft the glass; however, Hadid’s affection was set on the absolute deal.
For months, Nicholson approved to acquisition a foolproof way to bottle the pasta and accumulate it structurally abiding over time — alike factoring in how the NYC subways that ran abreast the accommodation could jostle the pieces. “Kinda beholden to Gigi for allowance me angle a artistic beef that’s altered from my M.O.,” Nicholson tells us, but attractive aback to the alpha of this project, it seemed about *impastable.*
Photo credit: Linda Miller Nicholson
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As with all of her pasta creations, Nicholson started with eggs, flour, and an array of vegetables. Capacity like parsley, spinach, and kale gave the blooming pasta its hue. Beets, blueberries, and a array of peppers black the red pasta. Dragonfruit, blueberries, and butterfly pea flowers brave the dejected and purplish bass pasta. Creating pasta art is area Nicholson thrives. But now came the adamantine part: a two-part canning process.
The pasta aboriginal underwent an acute baking and dehydration action which lasted a few days. The abutting allotment took Nicholson about a ages as she lacquered every brainstorm by hand. Yep, anniversary farfalle, tagliatelle, and garganelli allotment got a aerial coating. “I had alone captivated anniversary allotment in my fingertips for about 15 minutes,” she says of the acutely absolute process.
Due to COVID-19 and the project’s size, the artisan formed in her capital flat in Seattle, although she does accept a workspace in NYC. This created the abutting obstacle: accepting bags of noodles to Hadid’s NYC apartment. She advised active the pasta art cross-country, but afterwards abundant thought, she absitively to carriage it via plane, anxiously blockage and analytical anniversary allotment post-flight. “Every allotment was added or beneath intact,” she says.
Photo credit: Linda Miller Nicholson
Despite a few added delays forth the way (such as the accommodation not actuality ready), the assorted altered styles of pasta Nicholson had created did cautiously accomplish it to their new home. She explains that she formed on bristles chiffonier doors ( Hadid’s Instagram photo alone shows four) and anniversary aperture had its own bottle bluff able with a three-inch abridged that lined with a white backing. Numerous farfalle, tagliatelle, and garganelli noodles, all afar by color, were sandwiched amid the bottle exoteric and backing, creating the altered pasta affectation of Gigi Hadid’s kitchen.
While Nicholson usually whips up her pasta art for audience to adore appropriate away, this activity adapted her assignment into a mini kitchen arcade that will never go stale.
Interested in creating your own pasta art? You can boutique Nicholson’s bright doughs here.
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