CB March 2003

Luxury and green are seen and often treated as divergent concepts in the industry - one heralded by extravagance and individuality, the other by responsibility and, often, simple design.

Hand-washing delicate clothes is achieved easily with Whirlpool's jetted sink and drying cabinet.

Merillat's new Portrait cabinetry exudes understated elegance.

Liberty Safe and Security Products designed its 12-gauge carbon steel safes to be built into cabinets or enclosed in closets for easy concealment.

Kuppersbusch's new induction wok is designed to catapult the great properties of wok cooking into a new age of technology.

Homes of Color, a new magazine about African-American living and style, is looking to highlight and showcase diversity within the shelter industry.

Marketing pros call it branding - when the public knows your company by name, knows what it stands for, knows what it does and knows that it does it well.

Nestled into the apex of a rocky outcropping punctuated by large boulders, this $5 million custom residence in Scottsdale, Ariz., is so skillfully integrated into its high-desert location that it seems to be an extension of the terrain.

Inspired by the whimsical charm of 19th-century Nantucket shingle-style architecture, this new custom residence in Potomac, Md., seems at first glance to be a decades-old family home.

When they relocated to California from Denver, the owners of this Tuscan-style country villa had to adjust - not only to a different climate, but also to a different style of architecture, says Robert Senn, who designed this 5,000-square-foot residence...