Ernestomeda Los Angeles

Montanari Group is a young, dynamic company that was established in 1999.

It began with a single dream, to offer to the US market only the most innovative and beautiful kitchens designs from world renowned architects and designers.

For years Claudio Montanari admired the work and creations of such noteworthy architects as Zaha Hadid, Rodolfo Dordoni, and Jean Nouvel.

His precise attention to details and craftsmanship and natural eye for contours and construction inclined him towards creating beautiful spaces that are contemporary and have a soul.

With this concept in mind, Claudio focused his attention towards the kitchen.

His desire was to create a kitchen space that is both contemporary with clean lines and at the same time, flows naturally within the interior and into the exterior.

He realized that in order to create a perfect kitchen, it could only be perfect if he captured the spirit of the home that it lay in, and the people that inhabit the home.

Claudio did not want to simply provide the client with a beautiful dream, but rather he strove to understand the client himself and all the practicalities of the client’s everyday needs as if it were his own kitchen.

First and foremost in creating a kitchen is the process of customization starting with a kitchen equipped with a few but key elements.

Everything from trays that pull out of cabinets in a convenient, quiet and well-engineered fashion to optimizing the space at every angle, however large or small in order to harmonize the kitchen components while utilizing the space within was focused on.

The client that has an understated elegance will appreciate the effectiveness of cabinets layered in such a way that the bulkiest and roomiest cabinets are positioned at the bottom and the compartments ascend with airiness so that the cabinets connected to the worktop are light and multi-functional and the effect is sleek and effortless.

Or the client that has a boisterous and outgoing personality, perhaps the transparency of colored glass-ironed cabinets and choice stone that transcend the storage space and create a showy display will suit him well.

What’s more the combination of materials in order to complement one another to achieve a balance and sensibility and the narrow radius and natural curvature of the faucet head to utilize the capacity is equally as important.

All the while Claudio placed great value in innovation, duly noted in his collaboration with DuPont, a reputed science company that has been acclaimed for its cretion of Corian surfaces, and quality products, hence incorporating Gaggeneau products into each and every kitchen.

With this very intensity, Claudio ensures that each client will not only admire their kitchen for its beauty and design, but appreciate the process of creating it so that ultimately, they will feel at home.

In developing a relationship with Ernestomeda, the contemporary Italian Kitchen company that has collaborated with the designers that he greatly admired, Claudio fully realized his dream and made it a reality when he opened his showroom at the Pacific Design Center so that he may display the fine kitchen creations.