TY  - BOOK
AU  - Archer,Sarah
AU  - Zahn,Devon
TI  - The midcentury kitchen: America's favorite room : from workspace to dreamscape, 1940s-1970s 
SN  - 9781682682289
AV  - TX653 .A74 2019
PY  - 2019///.
CY  - New York
PB  - The Countryman Press
KW  - Kitchens
KW  - United states
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Kitchen appliances
KW  - 20th  century
KW  - United States
N1  - "For my husband and favorite chef, Manny, who knows the way to my heart"; Includes bibliographical references (page 213) and index (pages 215-222).; Introduction: Who's in the Kitchen?.; Chapter 1 : Dreaming of Mrs. Modern: The American Kitchen before World War II.; Chapter 2: Welcome to the Kitchen of Tomorrow.; Chapter 3: Any Color You Like; Chapter 4: "Bon Appétit!": Cans, Convenience, and Cosmopolitan Tastes.; Chapter 5: Counter Culture.
N2  - Nearly everyone alive today has experienced cozy, welcoming kitchens packed with conveniences that we now take for granted. Sarah Archer, in this delightful romp through a simpler time, shows us how the prosperity of the 1950s kicked off the technological and design ideals of today’s kitchen. In fact, while contemporary appliances might look a little different and work a little better than those of the 1950s, the midcentury kitchen has yet to be improved upon.
During the optimistic consumerism of midcentury America when families were ready to put their newfound prosperity on display, companies from General Electric to Pyrex to Betty Crocker were there to usher them into a new era. Counter heights were standardized, appliances were designed in fashionable colors, and convenience foods took over families’ plates.

With archival photographs, advertisements, magazine pages, and movie stills, The Midcentury Kitchen captures the spirit of an era―and a room―where anything seemed possible.

More than 100 color photographs and illustrations--backover.
ER  -