Thursday, May 3, 2007

This Week's Appliance Porn


I have found a whole treasure trove of appliance porn: VintageStoves.com. The guy behind this site is Stevan Thomas and he's located in Hutchinson, Kansas. Their work isn't cheap -- this 1952 Magic Chef is $15,000. But the results are breathtaking. They take old stoves and completely re-do them. The chrome gleams, the lights light, the insides glistens. My personal favorite is this copper Chambers. Yum.

Pictured above is a 1952 O'Keefe & Merritt "Aristocrat" - Model 5850-R. I'd take that over a new Viking any day of the week.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Be aware of the current situation with Stevan Thomas Vintage Stoves.

The Witchita BBB has 27 complaints as of February 2008, and the Kansas Attorney General's office has opened an investigation as of the autumn of 2007.

More information where 20+ customers have banded together can be found here:

http://growabrain.typepad.com/growabrain/2007/02/leopold_bloom.html

The Hutchinson News has also run the following articles:

http://www.hutchnews.com/Localregional/stove

http://www.hutchnews.com/Localregional/stovedispute

Nice stoves, but not if one can't actually buy them.