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Widely-used kitchen workstation design from the early 1900s

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Last week I covetously posted on Bulthaup's "tool cabinet" for kitchens (above), which I'm in love with. Well, turns out the thoroughly modern piece of furniture has a rather antiquated antecedent: The Hoosier Cabinet (below), a kitchen workstation from the early 1900s.

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In those early days of the last millenia, when more people starting moving into cities, apartments and especially tenements didn't come with built-in counters and cabinets. The Hoosier Cabinet--named for its original producer, the Hoosier Manufacturing Co. of Indiana--was the thing you needed. Cleverly thought out, Hoosiers were an impressive piece of industrial design from an era that arguably predated the term "industrial design."

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