Design visionary collaborated with industry icons
Chuck Wheelock has established a stellar, longtime reputation as a visionary whose 30-year career has intersected with some of the leading lights in the kitchen and bath design community, and whose design concepts have influenced professionals throughout the trade.
Wheelock’s collaborative efforts read, in many ways, like a “Who’s Who” of kitchen design icons – including Christopher Peacock and Johnny Grey – as well as substantive associations with Wood-Mode, Poggenpohl and Smallbone. His design experience spans both the U.S. and the Middle East, and his projects have included corporate, educational and residential initiatives.
Wheelock attended Dartmouth College, received a degree in Environmental Design from the University of Colorado and worked in sales for Smallbone, for whom he ran the company’s Greenwich, CT office. After Smallbone was sold in 1992, Wheelock worked with Christopher Peacock and later became an American liaison to world renowned English designer Johnny Grey, who introduced the pioneering idea of the “Unfitted Kitchen,” utilizing colorful, freestanding furniture in a sharp departure from the stark, white, monochromatic spaces popular at the time.
Wheelock’s Greenwich, CT-based design firm, Wheelock Design Associates, has since established itself as a top-tier provider of high-end custom millwork and cabinetry for the kitchen, master bath, dressing suites, libraries, bars and other living spaces.
