Apartment Therapy Tagged: antique

5 Favorite Old-Fashioned Kitchen Gadgets

We've talked about useless gadgets and useful ones, but these mostly recent tools didn't include some of our real favorite kitchen gadgets. Ingenious kitchen devices have been around for hundreds of...

Kitchen Spotlight: Jeff and Martha's Restored Vintage

When we talk about kitchen renovations and remodels, we are usually looking at kitchens that have been modernized or brought up to date. Well, this kitchen is an exception: it went both forward and ...

Vintage Kitchen Fittings: The Hoosier Cabinet

Did you grow up with a Hoosier cabinet in your home? We did, and we still have a lot of affection for this old-fashioned predecessor to built-in kitchen cabinets. Click through to read a little more a...

Good Question: What Is This Stringed Gadget?

Here's a request for help from Karen, Christina, and Kristen — what is this gadget? Dear Kitchen connoisseurs, We found this in our kitchen. What is it used for? We used it to zest a lemon (and ...

Little Luxury: Sterling Silver Tomato Server

After Sara Kate's post on the crazy All-Clad Tomato Slicer and in light of Faith's upcoming wedding, we thought we'd share one of our favorite wedding gifts... ...

Vintage Porcelain Spoon Holders

Have you ever seen anything like these porcelain spoon holders? We're semi-obsessed with these obscure pieces of formal dinnerware. They were designed to keep spoons for a buffet or coffee station ele...

Reed and Barton Silverplate Dimension Tea and Coffee Set
eBay Scavenger

Our post below on Anthropologie's newest teapots got us interested in antique tea-things on eBay. This incredible Reed & Barton Dimension tea and coffee set dates to 1961 and was purchased from...

Table Toppers: Crystal Knife Rests

No, it's not a barbell for mice, or a posh paperweight. No well-dressed dinner table is complete without a knife rest. Your grandmother knew how to protect the antique ecru lace tablecloth from ro...

eBay Scavenger: Vintage Fortune Cookie Maker

This is coming a little late for Lunar New Year but we couldn't pass up this vintage Fortune Cookie Maker. The incredibly retro box really had us going; was this for real? It's currently going for $...