1940s – The Kitchen of Tomorrow
In 1939, House Beautiful and Procter & Gamble got together to design “the kitchen of tomorrow” which was also known as the “self-cleaning kitchen.” The name, however, isn’t what most people would assume. There were no futuristic robots or special lasers designed to automatically clean the kitchen. It was a new design to make cleaning a lot easier.
One of those features included wider floors that made vacuuming a breeze. And continuous countertops and stainless-steel sinks were also redesigned to look more streamlined, which in effect, made them easier to clean by the 1940s.