02-01-2008, 09:53 AM
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The first English Rose kitchen was made in Warwickshire in 1948, just a stone's throw from the Wrights' house, by CSA Industries, an engineering firm that originally made nose cones for Spitfires. After the war ended, CSA used stock-piles of aircraft-grade aluminium by diversifying into up-market kitchens.
The name had all but disappeared by the mid-1960s. Its recent rediscovery is partly down to a fashion for retro revivalism (the Cath Kidston effect) and partly down to a Bath-based architectural antiques business, Source Antiques. Run by father and son, Rod and Tom Donaldson, Source began by selling the occasional English Rose kitchen alongside other mid-century metal furnishings. Now the company virtually specialises in vintage kitchens, delivering to homes all over the country. Their website is: http://www.source-antiques.co.uk/kitchens/
Note: You can also buy authentic reproductions of English Rose cabinets from John Lewis of Hungeford. Go to this RetroRenovation.com post for more information: http://retrorenovation.com/2008/02/04/50...-the-pond/
The first English Rose kitchen was made in Warwickshire in 1948, just a stone's throw from the Wrights' house, by CSA Industries, an engineering firm that originally made nose cones for Spitfires. After the war ended, CSA used stock-piles of aircraft-grade aluminium by diversifying into up-market kitchens.
The name had all but disappeared by the mid-1960s. Its recent rediscovery is partly down to a fashion for retro revivalism (the Cath Kidston effect) and partly down to a Bath-based architectural antiques business, Source Antiques. Run by father and son, Rod and Tom Donaldson, Source began by selling the occasional English Rose kitchen alongside other mid-century metal furnishings. Now the company virtually specialises in vintage kitchens, delivering to homes all over the country. Their website is: http://www.source-antiques.co.uk/kitchens/
Note: You can also buy authentic reproductions of English Rose cabinets from John Lewis of Hungeford. Go to this RetroRenovation.com post for more information: http://retrorenovation.com/2008/02/04/50...-the-pond/