Kitchen Design History
While one trend is a bit of a throw back looking backwards to a simpler time in our kitchen history the other trend is shooting for the future.
Kitchen design history. A brief overview of how kitchen design has evolved over the decades. When it comes to our kitchens the design trends we choose should be personal after all family life seems to take place most predominantly within the kitchen space. The story of the kitchen is also the story of our company.
Ranges and kitchen stoves in victorian houses required constant fuel even in summer and the resulting heat in the house could be overwhelming to the housewives and servants tasked with food preparation. Water for baths and washing clothes and dishes also had to be heated on the stoves so there was no let up with the heating requirements in the house. Between 1900 and 1920 most houses in cities and towns were connected to the municipal water system which made life in the.
Architect inventor john w. How heat and food bring people together looking at the relationship between ovens and kitchens the origins of the kitchen. Over the last 50 years cooking has very much become a social affair.
It was hard physical work. From the kitchen buffet to the reform kitchen style from modular design to the first built in kitchen to the new design concepts that accommodate desire for openness spaciousness and individuality. Posted on march 1 2016 may 20 2016 by by ana lopes ramos architect amsterdam the netherlands.
Later on simple masonry constructions were used to. The kitchens of the 1900s 1920s although they might seem rudimentary to us now were actually quite advanced compared to the kitchens that came before. In ancient times people cooked on open fires that were built outside on the ground.
It seems hard to believe but there was a time when the kitchen wasnt the social spot and hub of activity that it is today. In 1943 the libbey owens ford company comissioned h. Since our company was founded in 1929 we have built first class kitchen.