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House & Garden 
An Adam cupboard, which has a surpris¬ 
ing variety of colors—several delicate blues 
without and a candy pink within—is the 
main object in the kitchen of this New 
York home 
eyes. A huge one-room house outside the 
walls of Toledo, in Spain, where one corner 
was the kitchen, another the dining room, 
and the rest the living quarters of the fam¬ 
ily. Here we ate little green olives cooked 
with fresh peas, and drank sparkling white 
wine called Diamente. There was a very 
sophisticated kitchen in an apartment in 
Paris, with tiled floor, and beautiful Re- 
gence woodwork, evidently a fine boudoir a 
hundred years ago. And there have been so 
many shining white-and-metal city ones, 
young honeymoon kitchens in New York, 
and austere great-aunt kitchens in New 
England, but never one so precious to me as 
the old lady kitchen on our Georgia planta¬ 
tion. 
Now that our architects are coming inside 
our houses and concerning themselves with 
bathrooms and kitchens as well as roof lines 
and facades, we have opportunities to evolve 
fascinating kitchens which reflect the period 
of the house. What could be more remote 
Fresh green paint, dark red tiles, peasant 
furniture of crudely carved oak, white¬ 
washed walls and curtains of red and white 
striped linen create the atmosphere in this 
kitchen 
