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Noistering
Several years ago a client in Boulder, Colorado asked us to do something different with their hood. We discussed precisely what “different” meant and it took quite some time to find something everyone was happy with.
For starters, the client did not want a conventional “T” shaped hood that was wide at the bottom with the vent sticking out of the top. She wanted it open at the top of the hood. We structurally had to leave a post in the center of the kitchen when we opened up several walls. The solution was to leave the support post as needed then create a second post that would be hollow and allow for the venting of the hood to the exterior. Vibeke Paone of Abbaka calculated the cubic area needed for proper ventilation and she designed a liner and filter that would direct the moving air to the side, up and through the joists to the exterior.
This hood was over an island which meant we had to see it from all sides. The client decided that she wanted to recreate the magnificent night sky over the nearby mountains. To begin, Vibeke suggested using two different finishes on the stainless steel – polished for the mountains and brushed for the sky. The mountain range was duplicated on both the front of the back of the hood. The second task was to create a realistic semblance of a night sky. Elements of the galaxy don’t exist in one size or at the same distance so we had to literally draw the various shapes and forms on a template that was then sent to Abbaka to duplicate. They weren’t particularly thrilled with this tedious assignement but the end result was well worth the effort. | 
