Bungalow Kitchens - Hardcover

Jane Powell

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0879059508 ISBN 13: 9780879059507

Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher, 2000

Synopsis

81/2x10 in, 160Pp, 120 Color Photographs, 25 Black and White Photographs, and line drawings.

Bungalow Kitchens: Bungalow and Period kitchens come alive in this style book with how to complete, a reference guide and exquisite photographs. This is the ultimate guidebook to preserving the beauty and integrity of the past while adapting it to the utilitarian values of the present.

About this title

About the Authors

Jane Powell is an experienced bungalow kitchen restorer and a sought after speaker on the subject. She lives in Oakland, California.

Linda Svendsen, a graduate of Music and Art High School and Parsons School of Design in New York, has been a renowned photographer for more than thirty years. Her work is showcased in numerous magazines and books; she is the author of Bicycle: Around the World.

From the Back Cover

Immerse yourself in the timeless charm of a bungalow kitchen. The ultimate guidebook to preserving the beauty and integrity of the past while adapting it to the utilitarian values of the present.

From the Inside Flap

The kitchen was and is the most complex room in the house. The demands placed on it at the turn of the twentieth century are nothing compared to today's demands. Then it was essentially a workroom, a utilitarian space, yet far more complicated than the rest of the house.

During the Arts & Crafts movement, it was believed that family life would center in the living room around the hearth. Today, the kitchen has supplanted the living room as the central place in our homes. Not only must it be functional, it is seen as a gathering place for family and guests, a status symbol, a place for projects, and a vehicle for self-expression.

There are many reasons to have a bungalow kitchen--to either restore the one that is there, or build a new one in a period way. Bungalow kitchens are an important piece of history--the history of the house, of the twentieth century, of women, and of technology. And because of their simplicity, usefulness, honesty of design and materials, they can easily be made to function for the twenty-first century without compromising their integrity.

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History of the Modern Kitchen

The history of kitchens is in many ways the history of women. Since colonial times, the kitchen has been primarily the domain of women, either the woman of the house or female servants. The few men who cooked were chefs in restaurants. Well into the twentieth century, women had very little input into the design of the room where they spent most of their time and labor, and servants had no say at all.

Edition details

• Publisher: Gibbs Smith, Publisher
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0879059508
• ISBN 13: 9780879059507
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 160