matching retro appliances to five rad on-screen kitchens
SMEG’s retro-inspired toasters, mixers and kettles would look right at home in some of our fave kitchens.
Kitchens can be hard to style, especially since so much space is often taken up by naff-looking white goods and uninspiring tools (like that daggy microwave you’ve been carting around since uni). Home decor enthusiasts know that SMEG products – famous for their retro shapes and oh-so-pretty colours – are a fab alternative to traditionally chrome or stark-white appliances. They come in so many delectable hues, too, we reckon they’d look shmick-as in almost any abode. To test our theory, we picked out a SMEG appliance to match some of our fave movie kitchens.
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Amelie (2001) Parisian manic pixie dream girl Amelie Poulain lives in a small apartment in the bohemian enclave of Montmartre. It’s a tiny space, but charmingly decorated in rich shades of red and green. In keeping with Amelie’s job at a cafe, we reckon she’d love this bright red SMEG espresso machine. Mermaids (1990) Mermaids stars Cher, Winona Ryder and Christina Ricci as a flamboyant mother and two daughters living in small-town Massachusetts in the 1960s. Their kitchen is cute but lived-in – perfect for dance parties around the dinner table – and decorated with mint green and cream accents. The SMEG pastel green toaster would suit nicely.
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961) Audrey Hepburn’s Holly Golightly is not a great cook; her pressure cooker explodes when she’s trying to make chicken with saffron rice with chocolate sauce. Maybe she should stick with appliances you can’t get wrong – like a tea kettle. Holly is a bit of a flashy gal, so she might like this unusual rose gold colour from SMEG.
It’s Complicated (2009) This Meryl Streep classic doesn’t include a retro kitchen, but we’d be remiss not to mention a movie that’s so famous for its interiors. Director Nancy Meyers loves open-plan kitchens with warm lighting, ginormous benches and plenty of copper pans hanging on the wall. Meryl’s character is a bakery owner and a great cook, so she’d have all kinds of lovely kitchen tools on hand. This SMEG’s cream-coloured hand-mixer would suit the movie’s neutral tones.