Built-ins & Bookcases · Denver Square
Breakfast Nook and Labor-Saving Built-ins, Curtis Woodwork (1926)
A page from the 1926 Curtis Woodwork catalog showing labor-saving built-ins, including a built-in breakfast nook with benches and table and a fold-away ironing board cabinet.
Design characteristics
The breakfast nook, a built-in table and two benches in an alcove off the kitchen, became a fixture of 1920s houses. Curtis sold it as a ready-made unit. This page shows the nook alongside other labor-saving built-ins. A breakfast nook remains one of the best uses of a small kitchen alcove, and benches with storage seats add useful space.
Classification
- Style
- Denver Square
- Category
- Built-ins & Bookcases
- Material
- Painted pine
- Motifs
- Breakfast nook
- Published
- 1926
- Maker or designer
- Curtis Companies, Clinton, Iowa
- Evidence
- Period catalog illustration
Architectural context
Denver's foursquare: oak built-ins, colonnades and sturdy stock millwork. Denver, Colorado · c. 1890–1920.
