Sarah Archer is a writer and curator who specializes in design and material culture. The author of Midcentury Christmas and The Midcentury Kitchen, she contributes to Slate, The Atlantic, Architectural Digest, and newyorker.com. She lives in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
A refreshing retro-kitchen history -- Florence Fabricant, The New York Times If you want to understand your kitchen, this is the book for you. Packed with fabulous period images and memorable detail, this is the story of how the center of the American home came to look the way it does today-and what that can tell us about gender, capitalism, and social norms. -- Nicola Twilley, writer and co-host of the Gastropod podcast Modern kitchens are the midcentury era in miniature: an embrace of the new, equal parts invention and consumption. Sarah Archer tells this story with warmth and wit, accompanied by beautifully chosen images throughout. -- Glenn Adamson, author of Fewer Better Things: The Hidden Wisdom of Objects