Although in recent years color has held the center of the stage, the white kitchen is coming back into style but with a difference. If you would like a white kitchen but recall with a shudder the grimly clinical "laboratory kitchens" of the modernistic Twenties and Thirties, take heart. White is a wonderful background if you know how to use it. Because it contains all the shades in the spectrum and is the closest approximation to light, it has an affinity for all colors. Food and accessories become more inviting against white, which sets them off as a mat sets off a painting, and they in turn help to relieve it by reflection. (For instance, an orange ceiling makes a white kitchen seem warm and sunny.) White lends itself to many different effects and enables you to change color schemes at will by a switch of accessories. Designer Valerian S. Rybar combined white in cabinets and equipment with cool blues and hot red-orange tones to make his kitchen, opposite, a decorative setting for informal entertaining. It also is thoroughly practical, for everything is easily cleaned.
White kitchen is enlivened by an ingenious mingling of the cool and warm tones of the spectrum. Blue glass mosaic mural with colorful Italian larder motifs is echoed in striped curtains, orange bulletin board and blue tile floor, with subtle color in the all-over blue and green design on white plastic countertops. In the adjoining pantry, left, a bright blue wall with brass clock carries through the dominant color. Here, fold-away cooking units and a dishwasher provide a supplementary work area. The kitchen cooking center is separated from the dining area (used for after-theatre suppers) by a heat-resistant curved glass screen which blocks noise and cooking odors. The wood-and-marble-topped work cabinet, raised on legs to give lightness to the design, also acts as a buffet for informal parties. Cabinets and sinks by St. Charles. Refrigerator, dishwasher, cooking tops and built-in ovens by Frigidaire. Panelyte countertops by St. Regis. Amtico vinyl tile floor.
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source: House and Garden Magazine | February 1958
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