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Spiffy Kitchen Collectibles
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Price Last Updated : 7-30-2008
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Features
Paperback: 256 pages
Publisher: Krause Publications October 2003
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0873496884
ISBN-13: 978-0873496889
Product Dimensions:
10.9 x 8.2 x 0.7 inches
Shipping Weight: 2 pounds
Book Description
A "collectors" place is now in the kitchen! Readers will experience an enjoyable visual view of the kitchen, with this full-color, generously illustrated book highlighting postwar collectible kitchen gadgets, plastic house wares, accessories, and much more.
This impressive identification and price guide features more than 1,200 color photographs of vintage advertisements and magazine covers. For collectors who want to value their collection, it also contains listings and prices for 2,200 kitchen and food preparation items, such as utensils, mixers, pans, molds, juicers, shredders, slicers, can openers, and more. Dealers, decorators, designers, and historians alike will appreciate all this rich and entertaining guide has to offer.
* Over 1,200 color photographs of vintage advertisements and magazine covers offer an enjoyable visual view of kitchen collectibles * Includes listings and prices for 2,200 postwar gadgets
About The Author
In the 1990s Brian S. Alexander set out to redecorate his home in a style that closely mimics the 1950s, exposing himself to all types of kitchen gadgets and household items of the period. His interests as a collector took him to numerous antique malls, shops, flea markets, shows, and on more than a few Internet excursions. As Brian's collections grew, he thought someday he might write a book on the subject, and in 2001 he signed up with a motivational program focusing on long put off ?someday projects? Through the Chicago Tribune. He presently works as an architect in Gurnee, Illinois and has homes in Evanston, Illinois and Michigan City, Indiana.
Reader Reviews
What a delightful slice of Americana. I'm interested in mid-century America especially suburban living and this book captures a little bit of this so well. Look through the pages and it's clear that the author (and publisher) have taken some editorial effort to produce an interesting book. I was particularly pleased to see that this is not the usual dull looking, badly designed collectors book, full of amateur snaps of objects sitting on a table with several presented on the page as square photos. The thirty-eight chapters probably include every popular kitchen gadget available at the time (all nicely presented as cutouts though missing light grey shadow effect that really would have completed each image) but nicely there are included period magazine covers, ads, pages from manufactures brochures and other graphics. Another thing I liked about the book is the addition of the packaging the utensils came in showing the design and typography, predictably lacking in any graphic design but showing vibrant colors and in fact anything to catch the housewife's eye while on the store shelf. An ideal book for collectors and because of the way it has been editorially produced it will have instant nostalgia appeal and interest anyone who wants to know how folks lived a few decades ago. ***FOR AN INSIDE LOOK click 'customer images' under the cover.
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Spiffy Kitchen Collectibles
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