Open-plan Chicago kitchen: a Wenge veneer volume with open shelving and a media niche divides the room from a white handleless kitchen with a stone island, above chevron wood flooring.

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Dearborn — Modern Chicago Kitchen & Wenge Millwork

White cabinetry and Wenge veneer millwork in a historic Chicago building

The Dearborn project is a modern, open-plan kitchen inside a historic Chicago building. White cabinetry is set against Wenge veneer millwork, with full-height runs carried through the kitchen and into the rooms beyond.

Fronts are flat-panel and handleless. Recessed reveals take the place of visible pulls, lighting is built into the shelf niches and plinths, and a Wenge veneer volume holds open shelving and a media niche at the center of the plan.

The cabinetry was engineered to the conditions already present in the building. We engineer, build, finish and install our cabinetry and millwork ourselves — our custom kitchen cabinets page explains how we approach a kitchen.

Open-plan white kitchen with a Wenge veneer media and shelving volume, across chevron wood flooring. Handleless white kitchen with a ceiling-mounted extractor, tube pendants, lit shelf niches and a veined stone waterfall island. White handleless kitchen with integrated lighting behind dark-edged shelves and a stone waterfall island on chevron wood flooring.

Engineered around the existing structure

Working within the existing structure of a historic Chicago building, UniMode engineered, built, finished and installed the white cabinetry and Wenge veneer millwork. Existing structural columns were incorporated into and concealed within the tall cabinetry, which also integrates a concealed entrance into the pantry.

Engineering, manufacturing, finishing and installation remained with one team, which is what lets the cabinetry and architectural millwork read as one continuous system rather than a set of separate elements.

Every project follows the same path from preliminary pricing to installation. View Our Process

Full-height white flat-panel cabinetry with fine dark reveals, a lit plinth and a stone island with a dark vein. A wall of full-height white cabinetry with recessed lighting at the base, beside a stone waterfall island and a panelled room beyond. Full-height white storage doors with recessed vertical wood finger-pulls, opening to a bathroom beyond.

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