‘Design is a constant challenge to balance comfort with luxe, the practical and the desirable’, as fashion designer Donna Karan put it. Balance is everything, as in the design of this kitchen. If Bulthaup stands for sharply proportioned kitchens that look like laboratories, then this backsplash is the perfect antithesis. And you can take ‘backsplash’ quite literally in this case. Carmère is a brèche-type marble full of ‘splashes’ of other rocks and minerals.
