Open plan, high visibility kitchens have their place. (All over the place in fact.) But as readers of this blog may know, I am always on the look out for more sensitive (and sensible) ways to integrate the most important and clutter-prone zone in the house. Enter this rather lovely apartment conversion in Lucca where a folding glass screen instantly elevates the kitchen to the status of a ‘room of its own’ (with all the potential for privacy and sanctuary that brings), without compromising the all-important visual connection with the rest of the home. Beautiful - and very useful I’d imagine.