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If you buy, sell, or decorate with vintage kitchen equipment, this book will become indispensable. Thousands of vintage kitchen collectibles are presented in over 120 color photographs filled with related groupings. Red, black, green, pink, yellow, turquoise, and blue kitchenware is explored in settings that include vintage fabrics, glassware, Bakelite, wooden-handled tools, tinware, and so much more! You will recognize many of the brand names, such as Fire-King, PYREX*r, and Lustro-Ware. The gr...

The kitchen is always the heart of the home, and so collecting kitchenware can have a high nostalgia factor for some, while for others it is the enormous variety of shapes and purposes that intrigue. In this new all-colour Kitchenware Buyer's Guide, over 2,500 examples of kitchenware from the 1890s to the late 1960s across the UK, continental Europe, and the USA are illustrated and described, each with up-to-date prices suiting collectors of every budget. Divided into two user-friendly sections,...

This delightful book examines the graphics found on all kinds of children's alphabet ware, along with fascinating histories of the firms that produced it. Primarily made in nineteenth century Britain, America, and Germany, these ceramic plates, metal table and flatware, glass dishes, and mugs are considered a reflection of the technologies, values, and styles of the Victorian era. Alphabetically arranged, the twenty-six lettered chapters each tell part of the story: A begins the tale with a bit...

Relive an era when the kitchen was kitsch -- melamine bowls were pink and purple, cocktail shakers and party glasses sported fun themes, iced tea was served in sweaty spun aluminum of futuristic metallic shades, and wall clocks kept time in bright plastic frames shaped to evoke the jet age. This wonderful collector's guide helps to date and value items manufactured for the kitchen in the mid-20th century. items range from ever popular cocktail accessories to serving ware, pitchers and glassware,...

The collectible appeal of Mexican metal art can be attributed to artistic quality, variety, and large production volume. In addition to jewelry, it includes wearable art, table art, and wall art, with something for everyone. See Mexican jewelry and metal art made with copper, brass, alpaca, and silver. From glass mosaics on brass to silver jewelry inlaid with crushed stone, to metal combinations such as metales casados, the variety in color, texture, and form is wonderful. While other books have...

Colorful, cheerful -- and in some cases downright funky -- vintage dinette sets from the 1950s to the 1970s will bring a nostalgic smile to your face. Presented through over 200 archival catalog images from the Lloyd Manufacturing Company (a subsidiary of Heywood-Wakefield), these sets feature casual seating in a myriad of wonderful styles. Here are "trimline" sets from the 1950s, pedestal base sets from the 1960s, Mediterranean style sets from the 1970s, and much more. Original catalog descript...

Over the course of the past century, the kitchen, more than any other room in the modern dwelling, has been the focus of intensive aesthetic and technological innovation. Historically, European and American kitchens were often drab, poorly ventilated, and hidden from view in a basement or annexe. Towards the end of the 19th century, however, the kitchen became a central concern of modernism and a testing ground for new materials and technologies. Since then, the room has come to articulate and a...