THE KITCHEN

In The Kitchen you’ll find antique kitchenalia that was often crafted over a hundred years ago. Including nineteenth century breadboards, antique copper cookware, butter prints, cooking moulds and mixing bowls … you’ll find it all and more. 

“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink” is the first line from Dodie Smith’s wonderful I Capture the Castle. The rest of this perfect opening continues “That is, my feet are in it; the rest of me is on the draining-board, which I have padded with our dog’s blanket and the tea-cosy. I can’t say that I am really comfortable, and there is a depressing smell of carbolic soap, but this is the only part of the kitchen where there is any daylight left. And I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring — I wrote my very best poem while sitting on the hen-house. Though even that isn’t a very good poem. I have decided my poetry is so bad that I mustn’t write any more of it.” 

The kitchen was for more than cooking even back in 1949! So, whether you use your kitchen to cook, or to seek inspiration, you’ll want to fill it with the most unique and beautiful antique objects.

Dodie Smith.

3 May 1896–24 November 1990.

From one gen to the next surround yourself, and your home, with things you love.