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.

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!"