The German company Poggenpohl is the best known kitchen brand in the world, and has been designing kitchens longer than anyone on the planet has been alive. So we thought who better to help us look back at the early kitchen and see progress in the passage of time.

As you look at kitchens in each passing decade you can see designs being influenced by new technology, materials, color, and period tastes. In fact you’ll find that kitchens do an amazing job of reflecting the actual mood of the time.

So take a photo ride and see Ghosts of Kitchens Past and Present.

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