Kitchen · Full room
Kitchen, Library & Bar
Upper East Side, Manhattan · ~1930 Pre-War Co-opA full kitchen program, floor-to-ceiling library, and integrated bar in a Rosario Candela co-op with 13-foot ceiling heights. The kitchen reads as furniture — inset doors, quartersawn white oak with fumed finish, unlipped countertop edge at the island. The library runs 26 linear feet of shelving with a brass rolling ladder and integrated partner's desk. The bar is contained in a single paneled bay off the dining room, with glass storage, an ice maker, and a panel-ready Sub-Zero wine column.
The kitchen required break-point engineering at every unit: all upper cabinets designed to split at 84" for service elevator access and reassemble with blind fasteners at a joint concealed by the crown rail. The library case was delivered in four sections and joined on-site; the joint behind the rolling ladder rail bracket is the only visible seam. Inset reveals throughout kitchen held to 1/16" ± 1/64" — achieved through a dedicated face frame jig built for this project.
The fuming process was applied to all quartersawn white oak components before any machining that would expose new grain surface. The fuming chamber held components for 72 hours at saturated ammonia concentration, producing the target gray-brown tone. After fuming, components were allowed to off-gas for one week before finish application. Veneer for the library panels was sequence-matched from a single flitch; panels are numbered 1–14 in installation sequence and hung in that order.
- Full kitchen perimeter: 34 linear feet of base and upper cabinetry
- Island: 96" × 48" with waterfall marble top and seating overhang
- Floor-to-ceiling library: 26 linear feet, brass rolling ladder system
- Integrated partner's desk with wire management and monitor riser
- Bar bay: glass storage, ice maker, Sub-Zero wine column, back panel
- Butler's pantry: 14 linear feet with appliance garage and wine storage
- Five custom radiator enclosures integrated with base cabinet profiles
Kitchen · Looking toward park
Kitchen & Dressing Room
Central Park South, Manhattan · New Development, 2019A full-floor residence in a 2019 Robert A.M. Stern tower. The kitchen is a contemporary slab-door program in riftsawn white oak with panel-ready appliances, a Calacatta Viola marble island, and a concealed full-height pantry behind a push-to-open panel. The dressing room — converted from a secondary bedroom — is designed to the linear footage optimization standard: 68 linear feet of hanging and shelving in 140 square feet, with an island dresser and a centered mirror cabinet.
The concealed pantry presents as a continuation of the paneled wall when closed. Push-to-open Hettich hinges actuate a bi-fold opening that reveals 24 linear feet of pantry storage. The challenge: maintaining panel grain continuity across a door that, when open, reveals its edge. The solution was a thickened panel edge in riftsawn oak that reads as a shadow reveal, interrupting the grain at a designed point rather than an arbitrary one.
Linear footage optimization yielded 68 LF of combined hanging, shelving, and drawer storage in 140 SF — versus the 22 LF a standard reach-in system would have provided. The island dresser at the center of the room provides 8 drawers with full-extension Blum Tandem slides and a Calacatta marble top that ties the dressing room material to the kitchen. The proportional scale calibration for the 10'6" ceiling resulted in an upper shelf height of 9'8" — accessible by a pull-out step stool built into the base cabinet at room entry.
- Kitchen perimeter: 28 linear feet base and upper cabinetry
- Island: 84" × 36" with Calacatta Viola marble, flush waterfall
- Concealed pantry: bi-fold, push-to-open, 24 LF storage
- Dressing room: three-wall system, island dresser, mirror cabinet
- 68 linear feet total hanging, shelving, and drawer storage in dressing room
- Custom glass-panel display cabinet at kitchen entry
Loft-Scale Kitchen & Wall Sheathing
Leonard Street, TriBeCa · 2017 TowerA 13-foot-ceiling loft-format residence in 56 Leonard Street. The kitchen is centered on a 10-foot island — proportioned to the room, not to standard millwork dimensions — in black walnut with a cast-iron column integrated into the island end as a structural and visual element. The primary living wall is clad in floor-to-ceiling sheathing panels in sequence-matched riftsawn white oak with horizontal grain orientation, interrupted by the building's concrete structural column, which is left exposed within its millwork frame.
Kitchen island · South end
Both the cast-iron structural column (at the island end) and the concrete structural column (at the wall sheathing) were incorporated as deliberate compositional elements rather than concealed. At the island, the walnut panel wraps three sides of the column, leaving the front face exposed with a 3/8" integrated reveal on all four sides. At the wall, the sheathing panels terminate at a ½" metal reveal strip on either side of the column face — a designed joint that acknowledges the column rather than pretending to pass behind it.
Standard kitchen upper cabinet height (30") was recalculated at 48" for this 13-foot ceiling — a proportional calibration that maintains the visual ratio of upper to lower cabinet that reads correctly in a standard room. The island, at 10 feet long, is sized to the room, not to a stock dimension. Wall sheathing panels run 13' floor to ceiling in three horizontal courses, each course sequence-matched; the horizontal grain orientation was chosen to counter the strong verticality of the ceiling height.
- Perimeter kitchen: 22 LF base cabinetry in black walnut
- Island: 120" × 42" with polished concrete column integration at south end
- Upper cabinetry at 48" height: 18 LF, recessed panel lighting
- Floor-to-ceiling wall sheathing: 240 SF in sequence-matched riftsawn oak
- Integrated TV panel with concealed wire management
- Structural concrete column framed with ½" blackened steel reveal strips
Wide shot
Detail
Library, Stair Hall & Entry Paneling
West Village, Manhattan · c. 1890 TownhouseA full paneling program across three floors of a West Village townhouse: a second-floor library in American cherry with rolling ladder and integrated partner's desk; a stair hall from parlor to third floor in traditional raised-panel cherry with new profiles that exactly match the original door casings; and an entry hall in painted MDF raised panel that introduces the material language of the house while allowing repair and repainting as the family requires.
The existing 1890 door casings are an ogee-and-bead profile no longer available as a stock knife pattern. Era made a plaster cast of the existing profile, reverse-engineered the geometry to 1/64" tolerance, and ground a custom shaper knife for the project. The new stair hall paneling profiles match the original casings so precisely that the junction between old and new work — where new paneling meets original door casing — is indistinguishable. This is the standard Era holds for all townhouse profile work.
Maximum piece length was 12'2" — the limit of the West Village townhouse stair geometry at the third-floor landing turn. All library cases, stair hall panels, and long boards were dimensioned to this constraint; no piece required modification on delivery. The rolling ladder brass rail runs 22 linear feet and is anchored at each end to solid blocking inside the face frame — the rail carries the full ladder load without transferring it to the case.
- Second-floor library: 22 LF floor-to-ceiling shelving, brass rolling ladder
- Integrated partner's desk with wire management and recessed lighting
- Stair hall paneling: three flights, traditional raised panel in cherry
- Entry hall: painted MDF raised panel with pilaster details at door openings
- Custom shaper knife ground from existing profile documentation
- All profiles replicated to 1/64" — existing original casings retained and integrated
Kitchen & Bar Room
Greenwich Street, TriBeCa · c. 1882 Warehouse ConversionA kitchen and dedicated bar room in a landmarked TriBeCa warehouse conversion with 14-foot ceilings and exposed cast-iron columns at 12-foot centers. The kitchen is designed around the column grid — base cabinets between columns, the island on the column centerline. The bar room is a converted secondary bedroom: full perimeter millwork with glass storage, bottle rack, under-counter refrigeration, and a lead-lined professional ice machine. White ash throughout for its linear grain and the visual dialogue it creates with the exposed brick.
Kitchen · Column integration
The cast-iron columns occur at 12-foot centers across the loft floor plate. Rather than treating them as obstacles, the kitchen layout was organized to the column grid: base cabinet runs terminate at columns, which are left exposed within a 2" reveal-wrapped millwork collar. The island centerline aligns with the column grid axis, making the column relationship compositionally legible. This approach is the opposite of concealment — it makes the building's structure visible through the millwork layout.
The bar room millwork runs the full perimeter of a 12' × 14' room — approximately 48 linear feet of cabinetry at two heights, plus overhead shelving. The glass storage system holds 120 stems inverted in a custom-cut slot panel; the slot geometry was modeled in CAD for the client's specific glass collection before the panel was cut. The ice machine required a dedicated 20-amp circuit and a condensate pump for the drain — mechanical coordination resolved before the bar design was finalized.
- Kitchen: 36 LF perimeter cabinetry organized to cast-iron column grid
- Island: 96" × 44" on column centerline axis
- Masonry furring substrate: 80 SF Tapcon-fastened to exposed brick behind kitchen
- Full bar room: 48 LF perimeter millwork, 14' ceiling proportional calibration
- Glass storage: 120-stem custom slot panel system
- Bottle rack: 96-bottle horizontal rack in ash
- Under-counter: 2 refrigeration drawers, 1 ice maker, 1 dishwasher drawer
Kitchen · Full view
Kitchen & Five-Room Closet Program
Park Avenue, Manhattan · c. 1930 Pre-War Co-opA comprehensive kitchen and closet program in a full-floor Candela co-op. The kitchen is a U-shaped galley with butler's pantry, in quartersawn white oak with sequence-matched veneer panels and inset construction throughout. The closet program covers five rooms: the master dressing room, two secondary bedrooms, the entry hall coat closet, and a linen room — totaling 126 linear feet of custom storage across the residence. Every unit in every room was designed as part of the same material and construction language.
The 126 linear feet of closet storage was delivered across 5 rooms in 3 installation phases, each phase timed to an approved co-op work window. The master dressing room contributes 42 LF; the two secondary bedrooms 28 LF combined; the entry coat closet 18 LF with luggage storage below; the linen room 38 LF of shelving, including a dedicated ironing center with a folding ironing board in maple. All painted closet hardware uses the same Nanz unlacquered brass as the kitchen, producing a unified hardware language across the floor.
The flitch sourcing protocol added four weeks to the schedule and was the single best investment in the project. The selected flitch — quartersawn white oak, 22 leaves, 9" average width, from a tree felled in Pennsylvania — provides a continuous grain pattern that reads around the kitchen perimeter. Panels are numbered 1–18 in the installation sequence; the grain runs without interruption from the refrigerator panel through the upper cabinets to the window cabinet at the far end of the U. No other specification decision produces this result.
- U-shaped kitchen: 44 LF perimeter cabinetry with butler's pantry
- Sequence-matched veneer: 18 panels, single flitch, numbered installation
- Master dressing room: 42 LF hanging, shelving, island dresser
- Two secondary bedroom closets: 28 LF combined
- Entry coat closet: 18 LF with luggage storage below bench
- Linen room: 38 LF shelving with fold-out ironing center
- 126 total linear feet of storage across residence
- Delivery in 3 co-op-compliant installation phases over 6 weeks
Era Interiors is a millwork atelier in New York, NY. We design and fabricate bespoke residential millwork — kitchens, libraries, paneling, closets, and bar systems — for high-end residences in New York City. Every project is fabricated in our own shop and installed by our own crew. We are not architects, engineers, or licensed contractors. Our scope is the millwork itself, from drawing to installed work. Everything else — structural, mechanical, plumbing, electrical — belongs to the licensed professionals on your project.
We work directly with interior designers, architects, and homeowners. Our process begins with the construction and material decisions described in Collections I through III — and the projects in Collection IV are the result of that discipline applied to specific rooms, in specific buildings, by specific people who have been making this work together for years.
Kitchen programs begin at $200,000. Full residential programs vary by scope. All figures are historical planning references — not binding estimates; every project is individually quoted. We are glad to have a conversation for any project where the scope and quality tier are consistent with the work shown here and where schedule and capacity align.