Chrome tray, $6

When Laura Doyle’s The Surrendered Wife was published in 2001 there was concerned talk that the 1950s housewife was back. But nope, she’s dead. And this Ranleigh tray has been popping up in op shops all over town. I bought this one for a friend who’d decided to kit out her new home with genuine mid-century vintage combined with the odd piece of genuine IKEA.