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1929 mixer
1929 Monarch stove
1929 Better Homes and Gardens test kitchen sink. The bucket hanging underneath was for kitchen scraps.
Better Homes and Gardens, 1929 test kitchen work table. A precurser to the modern island?
The test kitchen stove, 1929
1929 a kitchen utility closet.
from a 1920 exhibition.
1920, a new modern kitchen cabinet
1920 A model kitchen
The Monitor top refrigerator was introduced in 1927
This kitchen was updated with a breakfast nook and glazed blue and white washable wall covering.
To help make the kitchen easier to clean it was recommended that you cover the walls and ceiling with washable oilcloth and the floors with linoleum.
A kitchen cabinet. Practically everything a modern housewife needed could fit in here.
This is a page from a kitchen design book published @ 1920. Most of the following images come from that book. You'll notice that most of the kitchens of the 20's were white or at least light in color. Breakfast nooks were apparently the latest craze.
Here you see 3 typical 20's kitchen elements, brightness, a breakfast nook and a kitchen cabinet.
This was originally to be a pantry, but was turned into a breakfast nook instead.
Ice boxes were called refrigerators. Here you can view a setup by which the ice man need not go tramping through your kitchen dripping water all over your floor. He can open the little door on the porch.
Another breakfast nook and oilcloth on the walls and ceiling.
Still asnother sort of breakfast nook.
A Victorian kitchen updated.
According to the caption, the sink is conveniently placed near the cook's cabinet for ease in food preparation, but it is not as convenient for the washing of cooking utensils. This is remedied by the table by the range. I'm not quite sure what they meant by that. Perhaps a large wash basin was used at the table for washing up?
This was called a well equipped pantry.
This shows the view from a panrty, then on to a breakfast nook and finally the kitchen.
This is the kitchen you can just see at the back of the last photo.
A compact kitchen/pantry/serving room.
Another room that combined pantry and kitchen in one.
This shows what was considered an efficient work area.
A modern 1920's sink area.
1929 In the 20's, Lillian Moller Gilbreth, better known as the mother from the book and original film version of "Cheaper by the Dozen", did a lot of work in kitchen design. Her aim was to make a more efficient workplace for women.
1929a kitchen cabinet, Gilbreth.
Another view of the Gilbreth kitchen design.
a downward view.
You can thank Lillian for the standardization of counter heights, she decided on the correct height. That trash can with the pedal to open the lid? That was one of her ideas too.
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