Found: The Frankfurt Kitchen

The Frankfurt Kitchen

This, the first modern fitted kitchen, was designed in 1920 by Margarete Schütte-Lihotsky. 10,000 of them were mass-produced as part of Ernst May’s huge social housing programme in Frankfurt, tasked with “winning freedom from the irrelevant clutter of outmoded habits of thought and old-fashioned equipment”.

Schütte-Lihotsky refined her design by conducting time-and-motion studies of kitchen tasks, inspired by the ideas of Taylorism on scientific management and work efficiency. She saw her design as being emancipatory and was convinced that “women’s struggle for economic independence and personal development meant that the rationalisation of housework was an absolute necessity.” p (rgw)
Detail of an original “Frankfurt Kitchen” taken from the Römerstadt estate, Frankfurt, 1927, and now in the collection of the Werkbundarchiv – Museum der Dinge, Berlin. (Photo: Armin Herrmann)

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