For some, it's a place to spend hours preparing food for friends and family, or just to enjoy the sheer pleasure of cooking. For others, it's purely functional; a source of instant coffee and a bite to eat between the times they need to be somewhere else.

It's the setting for so many of those intimate, personal moments that make up our lives: Contemplation; Conversation; Deliberation; The occasional kitchen-sink drama; And, of course, it's where all the best parties end up. It's a lot to ask of a room and no-one understands that better than Crown. Choose your perfect kitchen from the selection below.