"Michelle" > wrote in message
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> I was wondering if anyone out there in the has ever heard of the
> celebrity kitchen designer Stephen Rabinowitz?? I want to find out if
> it is just a fluke that my mother-in-law knew of him correctly as the
> designer of Chef Tell's kitchen that was on TV. He evidently designed
> one of Frank Sinatra's kitchens too. I was looking on eBay for
> something to give my husband who is a chef and wants to get our home
> kitchen redone and it seems like it would be great to have a design
> from him. My husband always talks about how kitchens are poorly
> designed and how you can't just have Home Depot design your kitchen on
> a computer videogame and expect to get a well thought-out design....
>
> I am skeptical to bid because I want this to be a perfect gift.
> Although at $300 for hand-drafted design, it seems like I should jump
> on it.
>
>
http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll...m=23646430 64
>
> This designer evidently gives speeches all over the world about "ill
> conceived kitchen designs." It looks like
> he will design one person's kitchen in a while as he is in his 60s now
> (he studied Frank Lloyd Wright and Aero Saarinan in the 1950s and
> onward at Yale I think) and has attained a level of success.
>
> I like how my husband not only would be working with him continually
> until he is satisfied with the design but we will use this expensive
> gift for a long time, probably many years until we move.
>
> Any thoughts??

Aside from the fact that you have been busted for spamming, there are a few
obvious points to be made.
1) A bunch of money doesn't necessarily equal a good kitchen. Luxury
doesn't necessarily equal function.
2) Just because a dead celebrity had a kitchen designed by someone doesn't
make the designer competent
3) If you are too stupid to do a Google search for this person then any
advice given here would most like fall on deaf ears
4) One doesn't look on Ebay for a kitchen design for a professional chef
just as one wouldn't look on Ebay for a house design for an architect.
5 Home Depot can only translate your wishes into a design. If your husband
can't tell if the design is good either he didn't communicate with Home
Depot or he doesn't know a good or bad design when he sees one.
6) That someone gives speeches about dysfunction doesn't make him an expert
on function and probably is the type of person who talks better than he
produces. Remember, anyone with a box of slides who is 50 miles from home
is automatically considered an "expert."
7) Many of Frank Lloyd Wrights homes were poorly designed and dysfunctional.
They were an architectural statement about the structure's relationship to
the land. Falling Water nearly fell into Bear Run. The Johnson Wax
building leaks like a sieve.
8) No one with any potential would do a kitchen design for a set fee (sight
unseen) and then devote unlimited time "working continually [with your
husband] until he is satisfied with the design."