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... these will be pricy...

Well, according to CNet, the entire suite (fridge, d/w, range, m/w oven) will be priced under $2500. Which is not pricey but not BOL pricing, either. More like MOL.

I like the set but I would require an ice maker and chilled filtered fresh water capacity for the fridge. But the fridge looks like it wouldn't fit well in my kitchen anyway. Nor would the range (cooktop/wall oven).

http://www.cnet.com/8301-13553_1-57...s-promises-affordable-balance-in-the-kitchen/
 
He could probably use one of those vintage turn of the century (19th-20th) separate collars... much easier to get a bigger collar than a new shirt, just because one has added an inch or two to the neck circumference...

Or maybe one of those tuxedo t-shirts.
 
That line of appliances may have some appeal to OLDER customers as well who don't like digital controls.A concern of safety for the stove,though-the front controls would be too tempting for children.Didn't new safety standards require the knobs or other controls to be out of childrens reach? I don't have kids-but some owners of these may.
The mans dress looked RIDICULOUS to me-ditch the tie and coat.The striped tie was too much.
 
The Clock

Joe, it didn't even occur to me, but I think you are absolutely right.  That cheap looking stove clock has got to be battery operated.  There's no such thing as an analog clock with an electric motor manufactured anymore.  Sad, considering the history GE shared with Telechron for all those decades.
 
Too plain for my taste... I would love to see some appliances with "nice lines". Wonder what Frank Lloyd Wright would have come up with. I certainly would not do a double take if I saw them in the store. I did like the G.E. logo.
 
Pet Peeve

Wish they had taken the time in preparing the set for this video to reverse the doors on the fridge to match the kitchen layout better. Makes me crazy when people don't take the time to do that; they just put the fridge in place, with the factory-set configuration of hinges on the right.

Also, several of you have commented on the front controls. Gas ranges always have controls on the front; at least that's all I've seen. Electrics have them on the rear panel, unless it is a drop-in or slide-in range, which do have front controls because there is no rear panel.
 
Spartan

If the guy in the suit is a designer...neither he or the suit sold me on the appliances. Reminds me of suiting up for work in the 80's. Relax, GE ...let the guy put on some jeans and a casual shirt. It doesn't remind me of "Mad Men".

The logo is great, but the designs are intended to work into retro and new kitchens - but my first impression was .."too spartan and not really interesting".

This is the Artistry line. I like their GE logo, but where's the artistry?
 
It is odd to see the controls on a free-standing electric range at the front but the simple look is clean and appealing. I also agree that without a self-cleaning oven, these are builder grade BOL ranges that would have limited appeal with few others besides slumlords and FEMA trailers.

I do like the horizontal handles on the refrigerator and the logo-medallion on the door.
 
link read

The design philosophy and price-point executions were hinted at in the first link that Kimball455(Harry) posted. I wasn't aware of GE's problems. Before any product gets made, they get plenty of opinions from the market they're targeting; we had all GE appliances in our last house(upgrades from the builders given)...and all were problematic after a couple years. I hope these are more reliable...along with affordability. The target market cannot afford to pay repairs if the warranties aren't great - or put up with annoyances, like we did, for too long. Repeat buyers need to come with Artistry. Thanks for the link, Cory.
 
I actually like analog and knobs and switches and things but I'm not opposed to digital, after all we sort of live in a digital world. I was just kidding about the clock being battery operated, but it still looks cheap and appears to do nothing but tell time. Maybe there's something I don't see.

Many years ago when I lived in the Duboce Triangle in San Francisco I rented a huge flat ($350/month!) in a building so old you could still see the gas lines in the ceiling for lighting. The landlady lived next to me, Mrs. Lucy Dew, a totally wonderful black lady. I still remember her telling me "honey, don't buy nothin that's cheap."
 
"honey, don't buy nothin that's cheap."

That is my philosophy (when possible). I believe in "pay once, cry once" meaning pay extra for lasting quality instead of buying cheap junk that breaks over and over.
 
I would say it's unlikely that the ranges are self-cleaning, since the analog clocks seem to be lacking any "stop"/"start" settings (or kitchen timer). I read on the GE website that the ranges are proposed to have a MSRP of $599, not sure if that would typically buy a self-cleaning range now or not. If you look at what's out there in the marketplace now, gas ranges that have a single, rotary oven control on the front panel (and not a digital control on the backsplash) are not self-cleaning.

I do like the resurrection of the "General Electric" name. I think the company lost a lot when they chose to just be "GE".

lawrence
 
The unbuttoned shirt and loose tie is the "in" look

There are self-cleaning ovens for $599 in both gas and electric. I cannot believe GE would make a new line non-self-cleaning but with no other buttons or touchpad I don't see how self cleaning is possible.

The candidate running for the Mayor of Pittsburgh, Bill Peduto, has a chubby face and a monotone like the designer with the untied tie. I don't know how he is going to get elected or even how he won the primary looking like that. My mother even at her age (85)! would tell me to put something else on if I dressed like that.

Once I saw a young man who was dressed worse - he came out of church and had a gray open shirt, black undershirt, untied tie, gray dress pants and a baseball cap. So there can be worse out there.

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Honestly, I've never had a self cleaning oven, so that is not one of the things I would really care about in a new stove. My main concern would be with how durable and reliable this new GE stove is - will it break in the next 5 years like most new stoves, including the "high end" Vikings many put in their McMansion wanna be houses?
 
Don't look for higher quality.  What I read said only the dishwashers would be produced in Louisville.  All other appliances would be produced in Mexico and Asia with everything else, for cost reasons.

 

lawrence
 

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