Kitchen Cabinets · Denver Square
Curtis Kitchen Dresser with Glazed Upper Cases (1926)
A page from the 1926 Curtis Woodwork catalog showing the Curtis kitchen dresser, a built-in unit with glazed upper doors, a counter and drawers and cupboards below.
Design characteristics
The kitchen dresser was the standard built-in of early 20th-century kitchens, a single unit combining glass-fronted dish storage with a counter and lower drawers. Curtis offered it in several sizes. This page shows its proportions clearly. A kitchen dresser is still a practical solution for a smaller kitchen or a butler's pantry, and it looks right in an older house.
Classification
- Style
- Denver Square
- Category
- Kitchen Cabinets
- Material
- Painted pine
- Motifs
- Glazed upper, Flat panel
- 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.
