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Updated in “unabashed tacky” circa 1960, this old farmhouse kitchen will never appear in Architectural Digest. Still, what was lost of the original historic character is made up in retro homey quaintness. Didn’t we all sit down at some point at one of those icons of American modernism, the quintessential chrome and Formica kitchen table? (more…)

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