Modern mid-century storage
The ad here is for the dining table and chairs (a mere $155), but what’s really spiffy about this setup is the cabinetry above: it’s accessible from both the kitchen and the dining area via sliding doors.
I was delighted to see this, because here at Surlywood I have a similar storage arrangement, although it’s located between living/dining room and hallway, it sits on the floor, and it’s six feet, six inches tall. There’s a divider between upper and lower halves, so there are eight access doors in all, though they’re not translucent: I actually have to open them to see what’s in there. Still, it was a selling point when I was house-shopping, since I’d never seen anything like it before and I’d been looking for some improbable combination of “distinctive” and “not expensive.” (When I found it, I jumped.) I suspect rather a lot of similar cabinets were installed in the postwar period, and likely most of them are now gone.
Tatyana »
11 July 2010 · 2:50 pm
Right on time.
This morning I was just re-reading Taschen’ album on Wiener Werkstaette, and p.93 features a rare photo (which I was unable to find online) of a double-glazed dish-cabinet partition in the villa of Sonja Knips in Vienna, designed by Joseph Hoffman in 1924. here’s the caption:
“The kitchen, decorated and furnished entirely in white, is “transparently” connected to the dining room and living room by a wall cupboard glazed on both sides”.
1924… Takes 30 years for ideas to to get accepted…
David Fleck »
11 July 2010 · 6:37 pm
That Daystrom was pretty busy, designing furniture and advanced multitronic computers and all that.
CGHill »
11 July 2010 · 6:41 pm
Fortunately, at this stage of development the hardware was incapable of defending itself.
Nicole »
11 July 2010 · 7:02 pm
Blithe fashion. Love it.
Jennifer »
11 July 2010 · 11:17 pm
My parents had similar cabinetry in the house where I grew up. Also not translucent, but accessible from both sides. Upper and lower cabinets.