Shannon Bennett’s $29 million penthouse and special kitchen
Celebrity chef Shannon Bennett has designed a futuristic kitchen as part of a $29 million penthouse.
The 60 to 70 square metre kitchen will have a meat ageing cabinet, its own herb garden as well as separate fridges for fish, vegies and cheese and a Miele “Dialog Oven”.
These won’t be available in Australia for years but the plans are there.
The 650 square metre five-bedroom, six-bathroom penthouse will take up the entire top floor of the 57-storey residential tower in S P Setia’s Sapphire by the Gardens project on Exhibition St. It will have views overlooking Carlton Gardens.
If it does fetch the $29 million price tag, it will be the most expensive apartment in Australia, surpassing the $26 and $27 million off-the-plan penthouses in Sydney’s Opera Residences.
Bennett has designed the foundations of the kitchen and he says he will work with whoever buys the apartment to customise it.
“It’s my fantasy of how I’d like my own kitchen to be,” the Vue de Monde head chef and MasterChef star told the Weekly Times.
Bennett says he has designed the kitchen to reflect what will be Australia’s high-end kitchens.
He says it will serve as an attractive place to entertain guests, and a functional space with the best elements of a commercial kitchen.
It would have induction cooktops, ventilated ceilings, a built-in spice rack, herbatorium, indoor barbecue, meat ageing cabinet, cooking island “like we’ve got at Vue de Monde” and Miele appliances — including brand new products like the Dialog Oven.
“This will be the first Victorian kitchen to have a Dialog,” Bennett told the Weekly Times.
“There’ll also be segregated fridge space ... for cheese, for fish, for vegetables. Vegetables should be stored at 4-12C to keep at optimum freshness, but fish need to be at 0C.
“It’s not about showing off — it’s about functionality.”
by Leon Gettler, October 5th 2017
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