Bobby Flay Taps Designers to Incorporate Outdoor Kitchen to Dwelling He Bought From Them

Bobby Flay’s acquired a ton cooking: On top of working his numerous eating places across the nation and rising his onscreen portfolio, the movie star chef is also increasing his actual estate holdings with the order of a new household located in the Hollywood Hills above the Sunset Strip, not considerably from the $6.5 million household he ordered in 2019. His new midcentury-type home was at first created by Michael and Arya Martin, the married pair behind structure company OSKLO, as a household for themselves, but recently marketed to Flay for $7.6 million. (Branden and Rayni Williams of Williams & Williams at The Beverly Hills Estates and Tomer Fridman of Hilton & Hyland held the listing.)



a living room: The indoor kitchen is a stylish black affair.


© Photograph: Sam Frost
The indoor kitchen area is a fashionable black affair.

The 5,700-sq.-foot single-stage household incorporates four bedrooms and five bathrooms, with just about every bed room opening on to a private terrace. The absolutely free-flowing, open-program household also functions a sleek kitchen and a cozy media home, a residing space outfitted with floating cabinets and custom made stonework, and a large-ceilinged excellent corridor that appears to be onto an interior atrium made up of an olive tree additional than a century old. Significantly of the hillside home’s living areas involve glass walls on the lookout out on to the secluded yard, which retains a swimming pool, out of doors entertaining area, and official gardens.



a bedroom with a large window: The greenery visible throughout the home is a great feature of the design.


© Photograph: Sam Frost
The greenery obvious all through the house is a fantastic function of the design.

The only thing the spectacular property’s new proprietor discovered missing was an outside kitchen—so Flay known as on the Martins to incorporate a person that would complement the rest of their layout and his individual culinary experience. The OSKLO founders advised Ad they’ve been collaborating specifically with Flay and his workforce to style the new house centered on his “exact requires.” They extra, “From there we just put an included layer of style and design on it and a couple of factors of usability, like appropriate shading from a pergola and seating prerequisites.”

The new addition, which is continue to a get the job done in progress, usually takes its inspiration from much beyond the West Coast. “Anyone who’s traveled extensively will have a new stage of admiration for Bobby, as very well as a genuine appreciation for the outside kitchen we are creating,” the design and style duo reported. “It makes use of a truly remarkable lineup of grills and ovens that most people only see overseas, enable on your own in an outdoor kitchen area in the Hollywood Hills.”

Alternatively than distract from the relaxation of the property, nonetheless, the Martins claimed that the otherworldly new structure basically makes the full abode extra down-to-earth. “In modern-day design and style there’s generally a deficiency of practicality, [but] this has introduced a layer of usability to the residence that is extra personalized and pleasing when entertaining,” they told Ad. “That’s effectively the goal of what we do, to bring a function to a unique design that matches someone’s lifestyle—and what a reward that it is Mr. Flay.”