The cooling drawer has had any number of incarnations, both inside the refrigerator and as a stand-alone unit, but there's something about this version that touches me. It's not [quite] a beautiful appliance, but it's so very much a product of its era—1960—that I can't help but smile when I look at it. Caught in the transition between modernism and Mod, it seems both ahead and behind the times.
Reefer Madness
The cooling drawer has had any number of incarnations, both inside the refrigerator and as a stand-alone unit, but there's something about this version that touches me. It's not [quite] a beautiful appliance, but it's so very much a product of its era—1960—that I can't help but smile when I look at it. Caught in the transition between modernism and Mod, it seems both ahead and behind the times.