DESIGN FOR A KITCHEN

Hawke's Bay Tribune, Volume XXV, Issue 160, 22 June 1935, Page 11

DESIGN FOR A KITCHEN

Those who maintain that women would be more successful in house planning than men will be surprised to hear that a man has beaten 20,000 women in a competition to find the ideal kitchen, states the “Morning Post.” Some of the prize-winners were entertained at luncheon recentl.wat the Carlton Hotel by Sir Francis Goodenough, chairman of the British Commercial Gas Association. “One could noil iinderetand a man winning a prize tor designing a power-house, but it is surprising to find him producing the best design lor the power-house of the

home,” said Sir Francis when congratulating the winners. The prize kitchen, for which the award was £5OO, was designed by Mr. Anthony Trew. a 75-year-old retired architect, of Poole. It provides for a gas fire in addition to a gas cooking stove, a refrigerator run by gas. a hot-water supply, boiler mid airing cupboard The decorations arc carried out in deep green and cream. The kitchen will be sliowu at the forthcoming Ideal Home Exhibition at Olympia, ail also will the kitchen designed tor the Kwgfs htjua*.