Sketch for Flower Kitchen
12
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
12
From the collection of Victoria and Albert Museum
Dominant colour
Sketch for Flower Kitchen is a 12 by John B. Prizeman, held at Victoria and Albert Museum.
This drawing shows early plans for a wild kitchen design from 1972 by British architect John Prizeman. It’s a sketch, not a finished painting, done in felt-tip on tracing paper. The kitchen rolls around the garden on rails shaped like a flower. As it moves, the windows open like petals to catch the sun. Westinghouse turned this one-off idea into an actual kitchen for a house. See other playful designs by Prizeman, John B.
The sketch depicts preliminary designs for a mobile kitchen created by John Prizeman in 1972, featuring a dome-shaped structure with petal-like windows that open and rotate to follow sunlight. Executed in felt-tip pen on tracing paper, the drawing includes three views with inscribed captions and dimensions, along with the title, signature, and date at the bottom right. The concept reflects the 'flower power' aesthetic of the era and draws inspiration from early Victorian conservatories, with the kitchen designed to detach from the house and move along garden rails. A prototype was later…
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John B. Prizeman made loose, ink-on-paper drawings in the early 1970s. His sketch for Flower Kitchen shows a room full of vases and stems, quick lines suggesting petals and stems rather than solid shapes. It belongs to…
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