A true collaboration between designer and architect, this eight-metre-long island was designed as a central feature in the combined living-dining-kitchen area of this very sculptural house.

To complement the surrounding spaces and materials, the island needed to be more than a functional workbench, so the designers created a sculpted combination of white concrete and the gorgeous, black Corian Deep Night Sky top, which curves and cantilevers from the plinth. The bench is longer than the functional requirements of the kitchen, to provide seating around the seaward end and to make it of a scale appropriate to the large living and dining areas.

And its cute nickname? The island has affectionately become known as the ‘Orca’, in reference to the whales occasionally seen traversing the Waitematā Harbour, which the kitchen overlooks.