Welcome! Here In The Vintage Kitchen shop, you'll find an ever-evolving assortment of curated vintage and antique kitchenware dating from the 1800s to the 1970s.
We are a small but mighty shop determined to tell interesting stories from history about heirlooms that make your space come alive. With a nod towards classic design and colorful character, you'll discover timeless pieces that float flawlessly between decades, making them eternally stylish no matter what the time period.
Here in the Vintage Kitchen, we are story lovers (and suspect that you might be too). Each item offered in the shop tells a unique tale from time, highlighting both its place and importance in history.
New items added weekly! Gift cards available here.
Cookbook Season is Here!
Every September, we bring a new batch of over 75 vintage and antique cookbooks to the shop. They start rolling into the cookbook section right around Labor Day and continue through the holiday season into the winter months when cozy cooking is at its most comforting.
Find familiar favorites, explore new curiosities, and dive into delicious storytelling with hand-curated selections that will dazzle your dinner mates and delight your senses.
Featured Vintage Recipe: Basic Welsh Rarebit
This vintage recipe from the 1955 cookbook The Complete Book of Cheese by Bob Brown, is the building block of all Welsh rarebit recipes.
Saucy cheese smothered over crispy toast is the pub food of choice in England and Wales. And this one is simple to make, requires just few ingredients, and allows for plenty of additional creativity in cheese choice and beer pairings.
Comforting, satisfying, and full of flavor, it adds an extra dose of happy to happy hour, makes for festive game day fare, and brings a bit of culinary history to your BritBox binge watch.
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We're Renovating a Vintage Kitchen
In The Vintage Kitchen operates out of a house built in 1750. Tag along with us on Instagram and the blog to see what we discover as we renovate this old house.
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OUR NEW PHOTO GALLERY IS HERE!
Exciting news! The social side of ITVK is changing. Because we want to support companies that are working to create healthy environments for everyone, we are taking an indefinite break from traditonal social media. In its place, we made something new.
Since we love taking photographs and sharing interesting information from history, by creating our own custom social feed here in the shop, we still have the opportunity to highlight all the excitement and joy found in the kitchens of past decades and centuries.
Visit the About page here in the shop to see our new gallery where you'll find similar content to what we have posted online in the past. Recipes, garden updates, history highlights, shop features, and 1750 House renovation projects will still be featured, along with some ITVK community contributions and sometimes a video or two. It's a new way to celebrate old history. We hope you'll find it to be equally engaging.
Featured Expert: William Pahlmann (1900-1987)
When it came to cozying up your home for the fall and winter seasons, no one offered more practical guidance and easy to replicate style tips than influential 20th-century interior designer William Pahlmann.
Credited with being the first to incorporate the eclectic style of mismatching domestic eras, furniture designs, patterns, and textures, he favored bright color palettes, classic form, and individuality in expression.
Equating interior trends to the passing fads of fashion, William shied away from embracing the buzzy-ness of emerging 20th century design trends. Instead, he demonstrated how classic pieces from any era could harmoniously come together in a room in both fresh and unexpected ways.
Learn more about his work and see some examples of his designs here.