My kitchen is in a museum video – and on YouTube, too. Thanks, Daniel, for spotting it!
Posted by: • January 15, 2008
Mid Century Culture
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Youngstown Kitchen – 1957 marketing material and a priceless video 
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“Fake butcher block countertops” are another one of those original vintage house features that I often hear called “hideous” on other websites. (Crikey, how I have come to despise that word — it is overkill, please refrain.) I, on the other hand, not only have “no problem” with butcher block laminate, I am 100% on [...]
If you are looking for retro-style laminate for a kitchen or bathroom countertop, you have some blinding research ahead of you. Unless there is a home-run-out-of-the-park solution — like the boomerangs, crackle ice or dogbone still available — it’s going to be a hunt-peck-and-forage to find something that’s “close enough” to original laminates from the [...]
Here is another set of products from the past — still available today — with a fascinating history: ‘Memphis’ style laminates designed in 1978 by Ettore Sottsass, “the greatest Italian designer of the last half century.” These laminates are still offered by Abet Laminati. This is not necessarily a name familiar U.S. consumers, but Abet [...]
A few years ago I saw my first bathtub and shower surround tiled in with a “crazy quilt” of all different tiles, and it was love at first site. If you love color and pattern, heck, going crazy quilt means can have it all. Designer Amy Mescia — with her new company Oscar & Izzy – now [...]
Reader Sarah successfully removed a layer of more modern laminate from her yummy gold-speckled mid-century laminate beneath. She wrote about her experience — and the products she used — on her blog, Sarahs’ Blue Castle. But before you jump over there, take a look at her note to me and my comments here first –> [...]
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I adore the St. Louis arch–it’s the coolest monument.
It is SO AWESOME (as my daughter would say) that your kitchen was in the video!! V. exciting!
I don’t understand, in one post you write that your chairs are CB2 knock-offs? so why is it good that your kitchen with knock-offs ended up in the Cranbrook video? I think it is more sad, this means that whoever curated the video can’t tell the difference. In the photo the proportions are clearly different.
It seems like an insult to Eeero Saarinen.
The chairs that were originally in my kitchen were from ebay – yes, knockoffs. My table was a CB2 knockoff. I ultimately replaced all of these modern-day knockoffs, with a 60s or 70s vintage set. But even my vintage set was not a Saarinen — it was an adaptation by another manufacturer.