Kitchen Klatch

It's called the heart of the home for good reason - the kitchen is the command center of daily life and a magnet for meals, conversation and, naturally, stuff! In these photographs, artist Joanne Leonard has captured not only kitchens of a certain era but also that timeless feeling of a hectic, lived-in home that's familiar to us all.

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Memo Center With Clean House Plaque, CA, 1975 "The sign beside the phone reads My house is clean enough to be healthy and dirty enough to be happy. I found that most of the kitchen 'memo centers' I photographed had some sense of contrariness about domesticity."

Untitled "This is in the Berkeley, CA, home of an artist I knew. I loved being there. It was peaceful and wonderful they were so organized!"