Friday, April 24, 2009

Smitten: Frigidaire Flair

Readers, I've let you down. I'm flailing. It's been a week of take out Chinese, late night burgers, & drive-thru windows. There was a bright rémoulade salad & simple roasted chicken mingled in the muck of lazy easy-access food. Eh, these weeks happen. Maybe if this sunner of a stove was shacked up in my kitchen this would happen less often.

Design*Sponge, in all of its things-I-never-knew-I-needed wisdom, posted a house tour earlier this week featuring this amazing mid-century stove, the Frigidaire Flair. "The Happiest thing that ever happened to cooking...OR YOU!".... so promises this 1962 brochure for the retro stove. With the oven nestled on top, its cooktop can be rolled in for storage. I'm not sure about the "happiest thing ever" business, but it would would be nice tucked in the little cubicle I call a kitchen. Maybe I'd be less inclined to dail up Red Pepper. Maybe.

Images, Design*Sponge, Dan Langdon.

3 comments:

Anonymous said...

I want it.
But will make do with those red gloves - now are they rubber ones for washing up or thick fabric ones for the oven ? - not sure. Want them either way.

jjzach said...

I have one for sale right now. We used it and loved it for several years, but it had to go when we remodeled our kitchen recently.

Frigidaire Flair for SaleCheck it out! We would love to find a good home for it.

Cassidy said...

Hi! I was looking up some info about the flair in my kitchen and found this. First let me say, I love it! Mine is faltering a bit and came with my apartment, but generally speaking it is one awesome oven and I love the small amount of space it takes up. I also heard the flair was commissioned by Dean Martin for some condos they were building in Las Vegas back in the day. Kind of fun, quirky history.

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