The Arts and Crafts Revival has now gone on considerably longer than the original movement itself, and given the classical looks of those motifs-and these wonderful appliances from Elmira Stove Works-it may well continue on into eternity.

One of the slicker concepts anyone ever devised, I think, is the Miele CombiSets, which is a set of modular cooktops that let you pick and choose which surfaces to cook with. But now they have gone themselves one better with the addition of the indoor CombiSet grill for year-round barbecuing.

I find myself liking pretty much everything LG has done with their Model LDE3017S Double Oven Range, starting with the size of the upper oven. It’s a full six inches high, which means that it can be used for considerably more than just an occasional second oven for elaborate meals.

La Cornue has three lines of kitchen ranges, all of them made by people who have dedicated their entire lives to this venture, and it shows!