EYE ON DESIGN
tHE KITCHENS THAT KILL IT.
SUMMER 2026
no apologies...
LUXUX DESIGN BUILD
Michael A. Gardner doesn't design kitchens. He designs statements.
The owner of Luxus Design Build LV brought that exact energy to Ascaya — Henderson's most prestigious hilltop community — and the result is exactly what you'd expect from someone who doesn't do ordinary: floor-to-ceiling wood-grain cabinetry in warm, linear tones. Full-slab stone backsplashes with veining so dramatic they stop you mid-sentence. Professional Wolf ranges. Integrated appliances that disappear into the walls like they were always meant to be there.
Every cabinet, every panel, every perfectly flush door? Built and installed by Absolute Closets and Cabinetry — the team that turns a designer's vision into something you can actually touch.
This is what happens when the right builder meets the right community. No filler. No compromise. Just kitchens that kill it.
On stone specifically: the slab is the decision the entire kitchen is built around. Oversized slabs push edges to four, even eight inches thick — a profile so substantial it reads as geological rather than decorative. The backsplash runs the same material, uninterrupted, floor to ceiling. No grout line. No apology.
See it at full scale at Modern Concepts before you commit to anything else. This is the one call that cannot be walked back.
THE LOCAL SHOWROOM THAT CHANGES EVERYTHING.
Las Vegas Exclusive Modern Concepts LV — Juan Romero
Most people come to Modern Concepts LV for the stone. They leave planning an entire kitchen.
Juan Romero has built something rare in this market — a single destination where the rarest exotic slabs in the country sit alongside some of the most seriously beautiful custom kitchen designs available anywhere. The stone inventory alone is worth the visit: book-matched marble, dramatic quartzite, rare travertine in formats and scales that simply don't exist at any other Las Vegas supplier.
But the kitchens are what set this place apart. These are complete, considered designs — built with the same precision and material intelligence you'd expect from a European atelier, delivered right here in Las Vegas. Slabs, cabinetry, cladding — everything you'd want to swoon over, all under one roof.
And the builders who know, know. Las Vegas' most elite residential developers don't leave material selections and kitchen design to chance — they hand Juan the plans and trust him to do his magic. The Summit, The Ridges, Lake Las Vegas — the valley's most coveted addresses have one thing in common, and his name is Juan Romero. When the project is high-stakes and the finishes have to be flawless, he's the call.
If your kitchen project begins anywhere, it begins here.