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SETTING THE MOOD

A CONVERSATION WITH BOBBY BERK

Interior designer Bobby Berk creates his dream kitchen
using the new Moodboard Maker tool from Corian Design.
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exas-born Bobby Berk is busy on multiple fronts these days this style to go a little towards bohemian, contemporary or any other
as one of the rising stars in the world of American home style to fit into different categories but the main cornerstone is pretty
Tdesign. The hard-working Berk oversees his eponymous much consistent through all of my design work.
retail brand, which includes furniture, bedding and lighting that
bear his designs, as well as a full-service interior design firm working The point of departure for your kitchen island design for Corian®
with residential and commercial clients. To boot, Berk is one of the Design was the circle. Explain the process behind that decision?
stars of the successful Netflix reality TV series “Queer Eye,” where he
serves as the resident design expert who smartly reworks the decor of I knew I wanted to create an island that was a showstopper. I was
guests’ homes in short order. actually recovering from surgery and found myself on the sofa,
where I quickly became pretty bored, so I decided to start sketching
One of Berk’s recent assignments was to team with Corian® Design for the design. I was trying to imagine an island shape that I hadn’t
to show off the potential of the brand’s seen before. I have collected some
new Moodboard Maker design tool to inspirations for other projects of some
craft stunning interiors. Here, he talks architectural islands that had angled
with Design Milk about the end result: waterfalls, cantilevered countertops and
a beautiful kitchen project that blends intersecting planes of stone. They were
art deco and Scandinavian design. all very geometric with sharp angles.
See the full article at: But I realized I hadn’t seen a lot of
https://design-milk.com/bobby-berk- islands that used a circular shape.
designs-modern-art-deco-scandinavian- When I learned that Corian® Solid
kitchen/ Surface can be thermoformed into
bended shapes beyond just a simple flat
How would you define your interior plane, I wanted to make the side of the
design style? islands underneath rounded into a solid
shape that followed the waterfall edge.
The main cornerstone of my style I started a sketch of an island with a
is minimalism with an attention to semi-circular shape on the bottom, and
shape, color and texture. I may take then I thought, wouldn’t it be cool to

OPPOSITE: Interior designer Bobby Berk.
THIS PAGE: Bobby Berk’s moodboard design created with Corian® Moodboard Maker.

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