“A fresh unfashionable-kitchen historical past” ―Florence Fabricant, The New York Times
Just about everybody alive these days has skilled comfortable, welcoming kitchens choked with conveniences that we now take without any consideration. Sarah Archer, on this pleasant romp thru a more practical time, presentations us how the prosperity of the Fifties kicked off the technological and layout beliefs of these days’s kitchen. In reality, at the same time as recent home equipment would possibly glance somewhat other and paintings somewhat higher than the ones of the Fifties, the midcentury kitchen has but to be advanced upon.
During the positive consumerism of midcentury The us whilst households had been in a position to place their newfound prosperity on show, firms from Common Electrical to Pyrex to Betty Crocker had been there to usher them into a brand new generation. Counter heights had been standardized, home equipment had been designed in trendy colours, and comfort meals took over households’ plates.
With archival images, commercials, mag pages, and picture stills, The Midcentury Kitchen captures the spirit of an generation―and a room―the place the rest appeared imaginable.
Greater than 100 colour images and illustrations
