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Families now want more kitchen space, according to Candice Adler, who
designed the rooms above.
Photo by Candice Adler
no switch to make.

“They’re like, ‘Oh my God,
it’s come back!’” Adler said.

Lastly, Adler sees that her
years of stressing the impor-
tance of lighting are finally
paying off, as clients now
realize how transformative
new lighting choices can be.

“If you really want to give
your room a face lift without
spending a ton, a little bit of
paint and a fabulous light will
go a very long way,” Adler said.

“It can change everything.”
Michelle Erdosi,
Aeternum Design Studio
private homes.

“It all kind of comes down
to having that people-centric
sense of hospitality and experi-
ence, to be the focus of how we
design,” Erdosi said.

This year, being people-cen-
tric has meant designing for
interiors where working
hours often bleed into after-
work. Creating home offices,
living rooms and kitchens that
are “a little bit more multi-
functional and a little more
flexible,” Erdosi said, is her way
of meeting client needs.

Erdosi is seeing the same
trends as Cuker and Adler:
Goodbye, beautiful, inhospi-
table chairs; hello, function and
performance in every room —
but especially the kitchen.

“I see that as a performance
space, where we ask of that space
and we need it to deliver and not
just look cute,” she said. l
Aeternum, based
in Fishtown, typically splits time
between private residence
jobs and commercial design.

Erdosi’s specialty is hospitality,
so as the world of her clients
contracted, her expertise in
figuring out what makes a
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