What You Will Learn
In this session, attendees will forget about the portable stainless steel BBQ grill and weather-worn furniture of backyard get-togethers long past. COVID forever disrupted the outdoor design game, transforming entertaining at home into a bona fide art form; with outdoor kitchens leading the pack as a top-requested feature among homebuyers and renovators alike.
Join Jessica Petrino Ball as she discusses the evolution of the outdoor kitchen with the added perspectives of Chef Andrew Forlines, Marty Gillow, and Robert Bell. This panel will discuss utilizing mindful materials and finishes along with sourcing the right appliances.
Learning Objectives:
- Define the important characteristics of outdoor kitchen appliances including gas grills, alternate fuel grills, specialty cooking products, cooling, storage, and clean-up categories.
- Identify top design trends utilizing outdoor rated appliances.
- Understand the fundamentals of outdoor kitchen design and appliance specification.
Featured Presenter
Jessica Petrino Ball
Jessica Petrino Ball, Director of Trade Engagement and Education at AjMadison, is a proud home appliances matchmaker. It’s her goal to make it easier for everyone to shop for products they will enjoy for years to come. She regularly leads continuing education courses for the National Kitchen and Bath Association and AIA. She was a featured speaker for Voices from the Industry and serves as a Board Member for the NKBA Baltimore Washington DC Chapter. She was previously recognized as a NKBA 30 Under 30. Her expertise has been showcased in many publications including KBB, The New York Times, Forbes, The Washington Post, Design TV by Sandow, Martha Stewart Living, and The Real Deal, to name a few. She serves as co-host of the Ask the Appliance Experts podcast and Editorial Director of AJ The Appliance Journal.
Panelist
Andrew Forlines
Chef Andrew Forlines brings his extensive experience as a fine dining Chef, cooking technology specialist, and luxury showroom event producer to offer insights and resources for elevated customer engagement in the residential kitchen design and home builder industries. His firm, Appliance Academy, provides the luxury residential appliance retail industry with new and advanced cooking technology talking points, showroom event production support, sales staff training, cooking demo program standardization, and luxury appliance cooking marketing assets.
Panelist
Marty Gillow
Marty has over 20 years experience in consulting, sales, and servicing outdoor cooking equipment. Has worked with landscape architects, designers, and homeowners in a wide range of categories including outdoor grills, pizza ovens, refrigeration, icemakers, storage, and heaters. Marty been a speaker at NKBA events on trends on outdoor equipment, and has performed product demonstrations for brands including: XO Outdoor, Lynx Professional Grills, and Weber.
Panelist
Robert Bell
Robert Bell grew up gardening and designing in Easton, Maryland on the shore of the Chesapeake Bay. As a child Bob enjoyed the natural world and had varied interests from growing herbs to Renaissance architecture. After graduating from Cornell University with a B.S. in landscape architecture, he moved to Washington, D.C to work with landscape architecture firm Oehme, van Sweden & Associates. Notable design projects Bob managed at Oehme, van Sweden included private residences on Nantucket, MA, on Palm Beach, FL, and in the Hamptons, NY as well as The National World War II Memorial in Washington, DC, and design and construction of US Embassy compounds in Barbados, Afghanistan, and Nepal.
In 2007 Bob left Oehme, van Sweden to start his own design firm. Bell Design, Inc. is a landscape architecture firm with current projects in Tahoe, California; Palm Beach, Florida; Oxford, Maryland, Southampton, New York; Incline Village, Nevada; Charleston, South Carolina; and Deer Valley, Utah. Bob believes each landscape project is unique and requires the utmost understanding of the client, the site, and the local climate to be a beautiful and sustainable long-term success. Bell Design, Inc.’s work has been featured in ADPro, Forbes, Town & Country, Luxe, Veranda, Elle Décor, Martha Stewart, the Washington Post, and the Wall Street Journal.
