Comments on: Magbot shows us her awesome all-formica dinette http://retrorenovation.com/2008/03/20/magbot-shows-us-her-awesome-all-formica-dinette/ A place for your postwar 40s 50s 60s and 70s style kitchens, bathrooms and mid century modern home aesthetic. Sat, 21 Nov 2009 00:30:59 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.6 hourly 1 By: Colleen http://retrorenovation.com/2008/03/20/magbot-shows-us-her-awesome-all-formica-dinette/comment-page-1/#comment-33177 Colleen Sun, 25 Jan 2009 15:39:38 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/2008/03/20/magbot-shows-us-her-awesome-all-formica-dinette/#comment-33177 What a great looking set! For years I trudged an all formica bookshelf/room divider with me. Two states and 8 homes. It was great, but it was the heaviest piece of furniture I have EVER owned. It was 7 feet tall and 6 feet wide with thick 2" wide walls that surrounded the rows of cubbies. Each cubbie was about 12" by 10". I loved the piece, but the last move did me in. I had to let it go after 20 years. It was the ideal piece for seperating a living and dining room. It was from a 1950's house where it had done just that, and it still had a couple of stickers on it - one was the Formica brand oval, and the other was something Bros. I thought. Not sure anymore. They really don't build furniture like that anymore. What a great looking set! For years I trudged an all formica bookshelf/room divider with me. Two states and 8 homes. It was great, but it was the heaviest piece of furniture I have EVER owned. It was 7 feet tall and 6 feet wide with thick 2″ wide walls that surrounded the rows of cubbies. Each cubbie was about 12″ by 10″. I loved the piece, but the last move did me in. I had to let it go after 20 years. It was the ideal piece for seperating a living and dining room. It was from a 1950’s house where it had done just that, and it still had a couple of stickers on it – one was the Formica brand oval, and the other was something Bros. I thought. Not sure anymore. They really don’t build furniture like that anymore.

]]> By: Ronn http://retrorenovation.com/2008/03/20/magbot-shows-us-her-awesome-all-formica-dinette/comment-page-1/#comment-5195 Ronn Sat, 22 Mar 2008 00:05:53 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/2008/03/20/magbot-shows-us-her-awesome-all-formica-dinette/#comment-5195 Hi Maggie, What? Like you think I DON'T drool over this stuff? I keep a flexible plastic cover over my keyboard, my desk... Ronn. Next stop: the link you supplied. Hi Maggie,

What? Like you think I DON’T drool over this stuff?

I keep a flexible plastic cover over my keyboard, my desk…

Ronn.

Next stop: the link you supplied.

]]> By: Maggie http://retrorenovation.com/2008/03/20/magbot-shows-us-her-awesome-all-formica-dinette/comment-page-1/#comment-5164 Maggie Fri, 21 Mar 2008 16:35:51 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/2008/03/20/magbot-shows-us-her-awesome-all-formica-dinette/#comment-5164 Ronn, thank you *SO* much for the reply. I'm almost certain your desk and my dinette were from the same mfr. Then googling Virginia House - Lincoln Industries led me to a huge database of vintage magazine ads put up by someone called The Kitsch Bitsch (!), whose one ad for Lincoln shows they were a mfr of dinettes, though the one shown is a common chrome style. Here's a link: <a href="http://advertising.tjs-labs.com/show-picture?id=1200337929" rel="nofollow"> http://advertising.tjs-labs.com/show-picture?id=1200337929</a> Further evidence is that you're in Virginia, and Lincoln Ind. was in Virginia, and I found my formica dinette in nearby South Carolina. Curse you, though, for your irresistible website -- I wound up spending two hours going thru your Sold and Current pictures, and mopping the drool off my keyboard. ...maggie Ronn, thank you *SO* much for the reply. I’m almost certain your desk and my dinette were from the same mfr. Then googling Virginia House – Lincoln Industries led me to a huge database of vintage magazine ads put up by someone called The Kitsch Bitsch (!), whose one ad for Lincoln shows they were a mfr of dinettes, though the one shown is a common chrome style. Here’s a link:


http://advertising.tjs-labs.com/show-picture?id=1200337929

Further evidence is that you’re in Virginia, and Lincoln Ind. was in Virginia, and I found my formica dinette in nearby South Carolina.

Curse you, though, for your irresistible website — I wound up spending two hours going thru your Sold and Current pictures, and mopping the drool off my keyboard.

…maggie

]]> By: Ronn Ives/FUTURES Antiques http://retrorenovation.com/2008/03/20/magbot-shows-us-her-awesome-all-formica-dinette/comment-page-1/#comment-5091 Ronn Ives/FUTURES Antiques Thu, 20 Mar 2008 12:49:46 +0000 http://retrorenovation.com/2008/03/20/magbot-shows-us-her-awesome-all-formica-dinette/#comment-5091 Hi, Since I have a Modernist store, I may be of help here. First of all, I've never seen a 100% laminated dinette set, but I DO have a 100% laminated desk: http://futuresantiques.com/items/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=9177 Since these are the only two examples I've EVER seen, and they both have fake wood patterns, there's a chance they're from the same place. My desk is branded in a drawer: "Virginia House - Lincoln Industries" It's a wacky but cool idea. Hi,

Since I have a Modernist store, I may be of help here. First of all, I’ve never seen a 100% laminated dinette set, but I DO have a 100% laminated desk:

http://futuresantiques.com/items/main.php?g2_view=core.ShowItem&g2_itemId=9177

Since these are the only two examples I’ve EVER seen, and they both have fake wood patterns, there’s a chance they’re from the same place. My desk is branded in a drawer:

“Virginia House – Lincoln Industries”

It’s a wacky but cool idea.

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