"Unfitted" kitchen design help?

We bought our house in the El Cerrito hills 25+ years ago from an artist who left us a very unusual kitchen, with real gold leaf cabinets (they do glow!), bordered with Native American designs, huge seashells as cabinet knobs, redwood burl counter and redwood doorway frame, mis-matched Mexican paver floor, bright orange walls.  Some of it we toned down a little but we spent our money on other home improvements over the years and lived with the idiosyncrasies of the kitchen.  Now the time has come to remodel our kitchen to serve us better as we age in place, and we have already removed some of the cabinets and started planning.  We want to keep the redwood burl and doorway frame, and find materials that are compatible, and we do no want any upper cabinets.  I am interested in a somewhat "unfitted" kitchen look -- only planning for one wall of more traditional countertop/lower cabinet drawers/sink.  The other 3 "walls" of the kitchen will be more furniture-like, mutable, flexible.  I am looking for a creative kitchen designer who can work outside of the box and embrace this admittedly quirky approach.  After spending some time on Pinterest/gardenweb/Houzz etc. I have learned that there is actually a name for what I am looking to achieve -- an "unfitted" kitchen, more common in Europe (England?) perhaps than here.  If this description strikes a chord and you are, or know, someone who might be helpful with design, I would love to hear from you!