AIRMAN'S BRIDE

Timaru Herald, Volume CXXXIX, Issue 20077, 6 April 1935, Page 14

AIRMAN'S BRIDE

“A LOVELY KITCHEN” “A lovely . . . kitchen.” Surely a hitherto unheard comment in the highly artistic precincts of the Royal Academy of Arts in respect of a kitchen; although the word “lovely” may have been often overheard with regard to portraits of beautiful women shown at Burlington House (states a London writer). Yet this was the comment of many feminine visitors when they viewed the “streamline” kitchens, which is one of a series of modern rooms, each one designed by a well-known architect, at the Art in Industry Exhibition at the Royal Academy. This kitchen has been designed by a woman—an authority on domestic architecture, who realises how great is the need for efficient equipment in the kitchen, be the space available large or small, and equally so the need for bright and charming surroundings. It bids fair to be one of the most popular exhibits, for kitchens possess a fascination for most housewives.

One of the great attractions of the “streamline” kitchen is the continuous table-top, which goes all round the room, leaving a clear space in the centre of the floor. This fitment has an array of covered-in space below designed with plenty of compartments for stores and utensils. All the fitments are built in, at the right height for working, in a streamlined effect. The walls are covered with easilycleansed tiles, which have an attractive eggshell gloss, in an original effect soft reds, set in a surround of pale of a Scotch plaid design in white and dove-grey ties bordered with silver lustre. There is an electric clock set in an arched aclove.

Even the gas cooker looks its streamlined part, for it is designed on the lines of a fitted-in part of the kitchen without any harsh corners, ridges, or skirting to collect grime. Its colour scheme is white and black, and it is very modern in appearance with sunk handles and controls. An important feature is, that like all the other fitments in this kitchen, it is designed to obviate stooping.

Among points that appeal to the practical housewife is the drop door, opening at the top, which forms a useful shelf for the observation of

dishes at intervals during the cooking processes. A specially large grill simplifies grilling—there is plenty of space to manipulate dishes. No outside pipings and a covered-in top, with self-lighting boiler rings, accentuate the streamlined look of the cooker, which also has a hot closet for keeping meals hot or casserole cookery. In the kitchen special cookery ventilation is arranged, in addition to the windows, which are designed with a partcular applicaton to good lighting on all types of kitchen work while cooking preparations are in action at the sink. And, as in all good kitchens, the artificial lighting scheme is shadowless. Tomato Moulds Peel some tomatoes and scoop out some of the pulp. Fill with chopped celery and a little mayonnaise dressing. Line small moulds with aspic jelly and when set put in each a filled tomato. Fill the moulds with aspic jelly, set on ice, and turn out on a lettuce leaf.