![]() and randomly start painting the houseplants. (30) The kitchen’s so spacious you’ll have room to cook. (29) From 1979 – I can’t help it I actually dig this. (27) From a 1970 issue of Phoenix Magazine – this looks a lot like the Brady Bunch kitchen. (25) The rule when you’re eating in this kitchen – whatever you do, do not look up. (23) I couldn’t help it – I had to let an 80’s kitchen into our list… especially when it’s this level of strange. (21) If anything blue enters this kitchen it will instantly explode. (20) This 70s kitchen design is pretty groovy – I wouldn’t mind having a kitchen like this today. (17) A few pages from a Youngstown Kitchen brochure from 1947 ![]() 1968 HOME Magazine From Los Angeles Times Newspaper 1960s Furniture Decor Spaceage Space Age Vintage Mid Century Modern San Francisco Ad vertisement by Logans80Store. It looks like the dinner party couldn’t even stay long enough to eat their melons. Kitchen & Dining Cookware Drink & Barware. For more 70s kitchens see: Those Fabulous and Frightening 1970s Kitchens (12) From 1979 – hence the omnipresent wicker and brown (the official color of the seventies) ![]() (11) It’s 1971 – every good key party begins with some fondue. (10) These obnoxious designs became popular in the mid-seventies… until people realized that they’ll have to actually live in these spaces. (9) The kitchen area is nice, but the patio furniture lost within an obnoxious wallpaper eyegasm just isn’t doing it for me. (8) I’m all for DIY decor… but the swirling ketchup/mustard theme has got to go. Everything is neat and tidy, befitting a Cold War Kitchen… except a painting which is wider than the wall. So, let’s have a look at a kitchen miscellany – images gathered from advertising and other ephemera from the 1950s through the 1970s. Thus, the optimistic enthusiasm of the Atomic Age kitchen gave way to basic functional kitchens with bold designs (which perhaps haven’t aged very well). This occurred at a time when Boomers were more than ready to cast off the shackles of traditional aesthetics, and experiment with new ideas for interior décor. The kitchen was no longer the proud centerpiece of the working class home, but reverted back to being functional. ![]() Women started entering the workforce, having less time to bask in the splendor of their shiny new appliances. Seemingly overnight, new appliances entered the home, and the kitchen ceased to be just a functional room where mom slaved away – now, it could be a dazzling spectacle of innovative décor and technology.īy the late sixties, the novelty had perhaps worn thin. After World War II, Americans found themselves flush with cash in a booming economy, and nowhere was the new era more evident than the kitchen. ![]()
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