The Victorian Dining Room ASTPL enameled metal wares adorned kitchens

enameled metal wares adorned kitchens and homes throughout Europe and America

A visual look at Paul McCobb's furniture and interior designs of the 1950's

these popular and affordable wares were usually not marked

and the founding of the Museum of American Folk Art in New York

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The Victorian Dining Room ASTPL enameled metal wares adorned kitchensElegant dining rooms in the nineteenth century served an important role in the social discourse of the Victorian household. They tended to be "masculine" spaces and typically were filled with solid, heavily carved sideboards and tables, and draped with rich, velvet curtains. Sideboards "groaned" with the weight of opulent silver serving pieces, set off by the jewel like tones of colored art glass vases and bowls. There could never be too many objects;