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You'll flip for these 1950s kitchens
Get a blast from the past with 15 of House Beautiful’s favorite kitchens from the era of T-birds and poodle skirts.
Colorful kitchen
This colorful kitchen is worth your careful study. There are no wasted steps in serving meals or cleaning up: A drop-leaf cart carries food from range and refrigerator to table in one trip. The folding doors of the dish cabinet open at touch to place contents within easy reach. Featured in the April 1957 issue of House Beautiful.
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Easily maintained kitchen
Featured in House Beautiful’s February 1957 issue, this easily maintained kitchen has enameled steel cabinets with stainless-steel counters, which blend beautifully with the warm quality of wood and plaster surfaces throughout the house. The custom-designed smoke hood over the cooking top and barbecue is appropriately architectural.
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Open kitchen
All activities revolve around this open kitchen. The cook can see and talk to guests, and when the accordionlike dining-area partition is folded back, the kitchen enjoys the cheerful southern exposure. Featured in the May 1951 issue of House Beautiful.
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Double-duty kitchen island
The cooking counter in this kitchen works from the other side as an eating bar. The refrigerator niche in the brick wall is neatly closed in across the top with cabinets, making one move do the work of two. Featured in House Beautiful’s June 1953 issue.
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Pace-setting kitchen
This kitchen might not look contemporary today, but in 1950 it was ahead of its time — so much so that House Beautiful chose it as one of three “pace-setting” kitchens of the year. “When you can get a complete kitchen, laundry and a place to eat into a space only about 12 feet square, it’s a real achievement,” the editors gushed. The kitchen boasted a cooking range bisected by a work counter, a grill and hooded ventilator built into the wall cabinets, and a washer and dryer in their own corner.
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Revolutionary ranch-house kitchen
This ranch-house kitchen also was chosen as a “pace-setter” in 1950, sporting a “revolutionary electric range.” “This comes in separate units,” the editors wrote. “The idea is to use as many four-burner tops, ovens and storage drawers as space and need demand, in whatever combination is most appropriate. This flexibility of choice means you can have what you want, exactly where you want it, to cater to personal convenience.”
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Colorful and gay kitchen
A third “pace-setter” in 1950, this kitchen was chosen for its more traditional look. “Traditionalists want a colorful and gay kitchen,” according to House Beautiful editors back then. They wrote that the three pace-setters were “revolutionary because they actually offer complete kitchens as they are wanted today, planned according to the best standards of efficiency, time- and labor-saving. And besides this, they are all colorful and cheerful, with a real decorative quality which is related to the other rooms of the house in which they are built.”
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House-of-the-Year kitchen
This San Diego kitchen was featured as part of House Beautiful’s first House of the Year, in 1950. The American Institute of Architects singled out the $9,450 home for top honors, and House Beautiful followed suit, praising the home for “proving the ideas we constantly crusade for — privacy, climate control and the warm, welcoming look of the American Style — are not matters of money, but of sound planning and sensitive design.” The kitchen was built with a high serving counter, fir plywood walls and doors, and a “luxury window wall, practical only because of fences outside.”
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A kitchen to ‘reduce drudgery’
“It’s American to pamper our women — to lighten their workload and reduce their drudgery,” House Beautiful editors wrote in 1950. “Here’s a new line of kitchen cabinets that pamper through efficiency.” The magazine praised the complete baking unit, beverage center, pots-and-pans cupboard and sandwich unit, designed by Michael Hallward, saying, “His practical analysis of what today’s housewife demands in greater convenience has been translated by Frank C. Snedaker & Company into these ‘Glamour Kitchens.’ ”
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Old and new kitchen
This 20-year-old “period kitchen” in New Canaan, Conn., was proof for House Beautiful in 1950 that “old and new materials can be happily married. Beautiful old boards, old weather-beaten brick live harmoniously with new wallpaper and fresh blue enamel paint, stainless steel and rubber tile. These last two are as durable and carefree as modern engineers and technicians know how to make them.”
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Nova Scotia kitchen
In August 1959, House Beautiful dubbed this home on the southern coast of Nova Scotia “a house of quiet design that cannot be labeled modern or traditional.” In the kitchen, “the tall gable-end window fills the room with light and provides a view of the entrance area,” the editors wrote.
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Food prep made easy
One side of this kitchen is for serving, with generous counter space and dishes behind sliding glass doors so you can find things in a hurry. On the other side, packaged foods and cooking utensils are stored and food is prepared. Featured in the June 1951 issue of House Beautiful.
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Economical kitchen
House Beautiful photographed this kitchen in a $16,000 house as part of a 1959 article titled “Design — Not Money — Makes Character.” “Counter cooking units and refrigerator are recessed into the central brick pier, so they are not apparent from the front entrance or the hallway,” the editors wrote. “So the presence of functional necessities is minimized and the total space takes on a living room appearance. Cabinets of the same wood contribute to this impression.”
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1950s kitchen furniture
According to House Beautiful in 1959, this kitchen had “furniture that makes itself at home anywhere,” designed by Schoen Furniture in Allentown, Pa. “Designed for the present without breaking from the past, this new furniture blends obligingly with any background,” the editors wrote. “Party tables and chairs have a distinctive style of their own but are at home with all other furnishings in the group. Caned backs have a pleasant texture, and give a sense of lightness and airiness. Nevertheless, the total effect is firm and substantial.”
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Compact kitchen
With its built-in refrigerator, cooking top and dishwasher, this kitchen is a miracle of compactness: The counters make an uncompleted square around a 5-by-7-foot working floor space. Featured in House Beautiful’s October 1955 issue.
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