I'll bet the dishwasher canted out like that is original design to this kitchen from St Charles.  Only one of the many St. Charles kitchens I've seen locally didn't have this feature for the dishwasher, even in a couple where this shouldn't have been allowed for space and aesthetic reasons.

The ventilated cabinets usually held built-in trash receptacles. The theory was that allowing air to flow would keep the odors down. In practice, it never worked unless one removed all the trash at the end of every day. My Parents had a similar Geneva kitchen in their NYC house and they ended up having to put a plastic Rubbermaid trash can at the end of a line of cabinets where there was precious little space because they had planned to use the very spiffy pull-out trash can with an automatic lid that opened with the cabinet door. That was aborted after the first week we lived in the house. We didn't recycle back then but that can became the receptacle for all the washed-out glass jars that were destined to go to my Grandmother's house.

Some drawers were also ventilated for so-called "bread-boxes". They might have worked for bread storage in the old days, but they became mold incubators for the contemporary breads that came from the store wrapped in plastic. That drawer became the odds 'n' ends storage. I was very fond on that tinned-steel insert with the lid that smelled like yeast and mold even after 16 years of no bread.