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In 1926, Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky designed a kitchen for public housing complexes in Frankfurt. With gunmetal gray cabinets reminiscent of a laboratory, the Frankfurt Kitchen looks drab by today’s ...

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky speaks at a peace demonstration against nuclear armament in Vienna, June 1961. Photo: Oscar Horowitz When a flood destroyed our apartment’s kitchen some years ago, my wife ...

Berlin’s Museum der Dinge (Museum of Things) is home to the Werkbundarchiv, a collection of objects produced from 1907 up until the midcentury by the Deutsche Werkbund (German Work Federation), an ...

NEW YORK — The kitchen, once tucked away in the basement or a back annex, became a laboratory of modern design in the 20th century. It became a showcase for consumer culture and a symbol of changing ...

This film on kitchen design was part of a series of promotional shorts made by the photographer Paul Wolff in 1927-28 ahead of the International Congress of Modern Architecture (CIAM), which took ...