The House
HS Kitchens Studio exists for the client who has seen enough beautiful kitchens to know what a great one requires: time, judgement, and a maker willing to be accountable for every line.
HS Kitchens Studio is a luxury kitchen design and custom cabinetry studio based in Queens, New York. Our founder brings more than 25 years of experience in cabinetry, kitchen design, and installation — a practice grounded in a single discipline: understand the home before you presume to change it.
Designers and makers work side by side, so an idea never has to survive a handover to become real. The studio and the joinery remain one operation — nothing outsourced, nothing lost in translation.
We select timber by leaf rather than by pallet, and stone slab by slab with you present. Stone, veneer, lacquer, brass and bronze are chosen in the light of the room they will live in — honest materials that age into character.
The studio deliberately limits its commissions. It is the only honest way to guarantee that the person who drew your kitchen is the person who signs it off on the bench.
Mission
To design and hand-build kitchens of enduring beauty for a small number of homes each year — uniting architectural intelligence, honest materials and true craftsmanship, so that every client receives a room made only for them.
Vision
To be recognised as the most considered kitchen design house in New York: the studio that returned cabinetry to the standing of fine furniture, and made the kitchen the most quietly extraordinary room in the home.
The Slogan
Where craft becomes character.
Philosophy
Helena Sørensen — Founding Design Director
The finest kitchens are edited, not decorated. We remove until only the essential remains — then perfect it.
Real timber, solid stone, unlacquered brass. Materials that age into character rather than out of fashion.
Tolerances measured in fractions of a millimetre, because a shadow gap is the signature of the maker.
Our clients value privacy. Names are shared only with permission; homes only with invitation.
“We are not trying to be the largest studio. We are trying to be the one your architect quietly recommends.”