Kitchen Tour: An Apple Green Cookspace in Mexico City
Photography by Enrique Arellano
We recently visited Libia Moreno and Enrique Arellano at Utilitario Mexicano, their Mexico City emporium devoted to celebrating humble everyday objects made in their adopted country. After falling in love with their shop, we asked to see their recently finished kitchen makeover on the top floor of a 1950s three-story building.
Since the apartment came with a large living room, Libia and Enrique transformed it into an all-in-one living space.
The couple decided they wanted steel cabinets after visiting a Mexico City building where the kitchens were “the originals from the sixties, all metal and funky colors.”
On the counter, a Le Creuset pepper mill and sampling of Utilitario Mexicano’s enamelware collection.
The color for the kitchen cabinets took was inspired by the leaves on the jacaranda trees outside the living room window.
Libia and Enrique couldn’t decide what to use as a stove backsplash—and then they happened upon an enameled metal street sign.
The couple found the metal lockers as they were being loaded onto a garbage truck at their local recycling center.
A view of the entry, with the family’s record collection and a framed print from the London Transport Museum.
A view of the living area.
Leon sits under a landscape painting from a flea market.