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Step Inside These Retro Space Age Kitchens

Photos from a 1943 Uniontown, PA Morning Herald article about "Tomorrow's Kitchen," designed by the Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass company and complete with built-in toaster ovens.

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Designer Ettore Sottsass' philosophy was to make furniture "from which we feel so detached, so disinterested and so uninvolved that it is of absolutely no importance to us."

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A 1957 Frigidaire "Kitchen Of The Future" advertisement

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Designer Joe Colombo's Total Furnishing Unit was designed to be a small and functional as possible (like this guy)

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A 1965 Frigidaire print advertisement—refrigerators in space!

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Designers Studio Zanuso, Marco Zanuso and Richard Sapper's space was meant to be assembled and re-assembled for "communities of varying sizes,"

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