My two year journey exploring kitchens has concluded with a look at some of the best designed kitchens around the world. These are the winning entries to the 2013 - 2014 Sub-Zero and Wolf Kitchen Design Contest.

In September of last year, I found myself in Scottsdale, Arizona, attending the Sub-Zero and Wolf Kitchen Design Contest Summit and Gala. This event represented the culmination of almost two years of partnership with Sub-Zero and Wolf as I was granted access to the judges, and the judging process, of its 2013-2014 Kitchen Design Contest in its 22nd year. During these past two years, I spoke with the judges, interviewed chefs in their own kitchen, discussed evolving kitchen design trends, talked to student designers, and investigated the role that the kitchen plays in the house. This has been a wonderfully enlightening journey and I am grateful to have been a part of something this big and impactful to the kitchen design community.The fact that this last adventure was basically a big celebration was certainly a nice way to put an exclamation point on the process.The day I arrived in Scottsdale, there were already people pouring in from around the world ? kitchen designers, interior designers, and architects from literally everywhere were in attendance to not only receive their award recognizing their individual achievement, but to find out who would be taking home the overall grand prizes in major categories of: Contemporary, Traditional, Transitional, Designers? Ch...