Super bowls: kitchen sinks hit their stride with more material and style options

Building Products, May-June, 2004 by Linda C. Lentz

Upping the design ante, the Elkay Mystic sink is similar in concept albeit more playful in form. Measuring 50 inches long by 14 inches wide with a depth that graduates from 2 1/8 to 4 1/2 inches from the faucet end to the drain, this innovative kitchen "trough" has an amorphous shape that literally meanders--much like the river it was named for--along a counter.

"We're putting these in islands," says San Francisco-area custom builder Kevin Kenny. "That works really well for parties. You can fill them with ice and put all your drinks in them."

And according to Connecticut-based kitchen designer Mary Jo Peterson. "These are lots of fun. They would be great for entertaining--indoors or out." --L.C.L.