The Kitchen

The Kitchen

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

Explore the Collections

The Kitchen is arranged to give you options on how to explore. You can choose to shop it all or via individual Collections.

Bread & Butter Collection

Explore our collection of exceptional antique breadboards and bread knives & antique butter stamps and butter moulds.

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Collection of metal icing nozzles on a floral-patterned surface
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FEATURED PIECE | Antique Assembled Icing Set

An early twentieth century piece of Melbourne history. This confectioners icing set includes tips by the firm Small & Shattell which was established in Melbourne in 1889. The firm originally had premises on Smith Street, Fitzroy but due to rapid expansion they built new larger premises on Johnston Street.

This is a truly unique collector’s piece of Australian history, as useful today as when it was first made, and is a rare find for those interested in food history.

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Cooking Up Inspiration

Discover food and cooking related stories in the Journal and a range of interesting antiquarian and vintage books about food & the culinary arts in The Library

Years ago, when I was much younger...

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Mortar and pestle with a can of tomatoes and a package of pasta on a wooden surface

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Book titled 'The Chefs of the Times' on a textured surface

When I was a child, we had an enormous apricot tree...

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Assorted apricots on a decorative plate with a bouquet of blue flowers.

I love sourdough bread...

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Loaf of bread on a decorative wooden breadboard

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Book cover titled 'Coffeepots and Coffee Makers' with an illustration of a silver coffee pot on a wooden surface.

Culinary Moulds Collection

Explore our collection of antique and vintage copper jelly and food moulds, including pieces by Benham & Froud and notable German and French makers. Also featured are pewter ice-cream moulds.

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“I write this sitting in the kitchen sink ... this is the only part of the kitchen where there is any daylight left ...”

This first line from Dodie Smith’s wonderful I Capture the Castle shows that 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 pieces.

Green asparagus spears and red and green beans on a textured surface

Dodie Smith | 3 May 1896–24 November 1990.

Shaped by and for generations.