I'll bite. 1958?

I guess late 50's or early 60's too. Looks like Danish Modern influence to me. I love it, although it wouldn't be what I'd pick on my own.

A quiz! I've been wanting a quiz.

And I wonder if their skylight leaks now like mine does.

Do I see pulls on the lowers and no hardware on the uppers?

And where can I buy a 3 foot tall whisk??

Sixties maybe, though updated somewhat. But yeah I can't get by that giant halberd-type weapon on the wall. The floor looks bad. I hope the other end of the room has some big windows cuz that looks like a hole. Really literally, a hole, where you look up and can almost see the sky but you can't escape...

Its a can opener.

The house is almost all glass. The kitchen with the glass roof or clerestory tower within a glass box house seems to be a favorite of this architect.

I too say the late 60s or early 70s. It seems quite similar to the "earth ship" home which is, like, totally, alive and well around Taos NM today, man. Lots of atriums and quite large skylights since most of the house or at least the north side is underground. Round/oval rooms also common to fit with the organic design.

If I successfully pry myself away from the earth ship vibe, then the 50s Danish modern seems to match.

also, I can see someone going to a Halloween party as Hagrid the chef, complete with utensils. :)

cheers

Early-mid 70s? The slab cabinetry and Danish influence makes it tempting to date it to the late 50s but the paneled appliances, hardware, and central air/heat vent (assuming they are all original)suggests late MCM. I'll guess 1974.

Love the skylights. If it is mid-70s, they probably did leak (usually not the fault of the skylight but of the roof flashing and framing).

I notice there seem to be three double outlets. To my eyes, the electrical outlets and light switches are smudged or absent, so I have no hard clues to know whether this kitchen is in North America, or Europe, or...

The faucet seems to be accompanied by a black side sprayer like a Delta. I don't know if this could be European.

Oversized weapons displayed up high is a feature seen in Teutonic spaces. The trees outside look like European Linden. Veneer was a Gropius dada. Curved and veneered furniture was "it" for many years in Germany and a few places closeby. The Danish loved working with this shade of veneer. My guess is that this is in southern Germany, or that it is inspired by that aesthetic. I think the floor has been redone, and that the original architect would not have been happy with the way the grain is so wavy; see the far far more regular grain in the knotless veneer. There seem to be fridges left and right. One might be a pantry. They both have great landing plunk countertop space next to them. Very praktisch. The DW dates it. It must be noisy. I find it very hard to believe the DW wasn't changed out at some point along the way over the decades. Maybe the photo is very old.

My guess is that babies conceived when it was built are now voting for the Green party or working some social cause, or investing ethically. This is my take on it. Because of the whole Aufmachung.

It's an oval room; The Adam brothers liked oval rooms, so it would have to be circa 1790.
But, seriously, Best guess 1975-80? Or 1935-40, or any time from 1930 to present. It's undatable because it's so plain. The wire-loop pulls are what drew me in to say 75-80.
Casey

mid 1970s?

1967 is my guess.

B/c almost everyone else is guessing 60's and 70's I'm going to say 1986. Maybe earlier 1982/83. Who knows, maybe it is way later, like 1992 and Palimpsest is really trying to trick us.

I can tell you it was 11:00 am when the picture was taken - but I have not clue as to what year. LOL

Beth

My first reaction was 1970's.

Oh, what the heck. Just for the fun of it, I'm going to step way out here and say it's somewhere in the 00's forward, . . . not in the US.

Dishwasher has huge access panel at bottom, so 1970s or earlier. They were smaller on later machines and disappeared entirely in the '00s. Not many other clues.

ditto. The DW panel is too big. It must be Hungarian.

Mid 1950's based on absolutely no knowledge at all

I'm guessing by the coffee pot...2011?

I'll bite. 1957.

Still guessing? How about 1936.

I'm thinking early 90's maybe. Cause of the over-sized kitchen utensils for accessories. But I'm not positive when that was in.

I think between 1986-1990.

autumn09- How clever of you to notice that drip coffeepot. You're right, it couldn't have been as early as I had guessed, at least not when the picture was taken. When I was a kid (late 50's, early 60's), people had percolators. Even the old Mr. Coffee's from the 70's didn't look like that one.

Early 1970s...?? Just a stab...originally thought it was going to be in the 1930s.

I see the elements that make people think the '60s or '70s, but I'd have to guess the mid 1980s.

I'm assuming this kitchen is lived in and therefore will have a modern coffee pot. Shucks...even my avocado green folding ABS camping trailer from the mid '70s boasts a state-of-the-art thermal French press.

Same with the built-in appliances. People tend to replace them when they break, even if they keep the cabinets. Even hardware gets replaced (and not always at the same time--note the cleat-shaped handle on the fridge(?) to the right not matching the one across from it).

Downdraft, Jenn-air style? That and the abundance of large ovens and general size of it looks pretty darn American.

The cabinetry is attractive, but the overall room just comes out as UGLY. How about some paint? Ug. Someone got tired after putting on the primer, threw up some ugly decorations, and made a pot of coffee. Wouldn't be hard to make that kitchen nice. Somebody should.

Fori, you are still in rare form! ROTFLMAO

I'm assuming that whoever owns this kitchen is not a cook because who could stand to work at a stove when there's a ginormous sieve hanging overhead?

Seems like bad feng shui to me.

::sigh::

Dull because it looks rather unused? perhaps. Ugly, no, sorry.

The overscaled utensils seem to be an affectation of the homeowners. The other photos of the house seem to indicate a partial update sometime in the 90s, (post-modernist artifacts) and a fondness for the ha-ha type of thing like the giant pencils that were once available. 8I Not my taste but so be it.

Anyway, the type of people that went to modernist architects at the time this was built often had a different and very specific idea of what they wanted. They were also usually in the middle class and middle aged (As opposed to the super wealthy 30-something hedge funders that seem to have fully custom houses built these days. The middle classes hire architects to add on).

So, first of all,they got what they wanted. Second of all, these people are our parents'or grandparents'generations. Once they had what they wanted, often they never changed it. There was not this common restlessness to change, redo, update etc. Part of the reason some of these houses look a bit unused and forlorn is because the homeowners are 9O: they don't care about updating something.

This house is from a real estate website specializing in MCM houses, not from a book. These houses are either actively on the market or other local examples of specific architects' work to show what these houses look like. They aren't from architectural monographs.

And many of these houses look exactly like they have always looked because the owners moved into it in 1950/60/70/80 and died there without changing anything. One of the 1950 houses came onto the market with a pink metal and yellow formica kitchen, another with an aqua St Charles kitchen with GE pushbutton cooktop. I think there is something to be said for knowing what you want and sticking with it...its a relief from all the "I am afraid I will be tired of/bored with/dated by/embarrassed by" mentality that is so pervasive.

I'm with autumn09 -- the coffee pot gives it a later date. I'd guess 2010.

And many of these houses look exactly like they have always looked because the owners moved into it in 1950/60/70/80 and died there without changing anything.

Yup, that would be my house. PO moved in when it was brand spanking new in 1952 and never changed a thing. Yesterday one of my neighbors came over to view the kitchen-in-progress and I told her that I've invested so much financially and emotionally that they'll have to carry me out of here feet first. She laughed and replied, "That's what Barbara always said...and they did." :-) The original kitchen wasn't nearly as nice as the one posted here, though!