Yowza – a time capsule American Kitchens sink base, porcelain top, faucet – the works. It’s amazing – but you know these treasures are out there. I would snap this up in a hearbeat if I lived in Idaho! Heck yeah there is more →
A cheery 1945 kitchen to mark month’s end
Posted by: • April 30, 2008
Just a sweet and simple 40s “American” kitchen today. In my recent survey, readers asked for 
more from the 40s. This photo is a great example: Sweet, clear colors that are very much of the era…the cabinets, still simple and white… And as we’ve discussed before, notice the not-all-that-subtle use of patriotic red-white-blue color scheme. In this case accented by clean yellow and green.
A very cheerful crayola kitchen for a country emerging from hard times. As the copy says:
For a good start to happiness, start your plans now.
Vintage English Rose metal kitchen cabinets — from Spitfires to luxe to salvage and back again
Posted by: • February 1, 2008
Scathing Jane seems to have caught the steel kitchen cabinet bug even more than me. She recently sent this TREMENDOUS find my way — English Rose cabinets. Same as in America, England had surplus metals available after the war. In this case: Aluminium. These English Roses are iconic – and now highly collectible.
Here’s a clip from an article about these cabinets: “The first English Rose kitchen was made in Warwickshire in 1948…by CSA Industries, an engineering firm that originally made nose cones for Spitfires.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.”
Interestingly, the drawer design of these cabinets closely resembles our “American” brand, pictured below. Even see how they both have “trolley carts”… hmmm, maybe the companies shared some tooling? Nonethess, the English Roses’ recessed stainless steel handles really distinguish them.
1953 American brand steel kitchen
Thanks, SJ, keep your cabinet finds coming!
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