Frankfurt kitchen
The first modern kitchen, planned as a workplace.
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky designed the kitchen in 1926 for the new housing estates in Frankfurt. She measured how housewives moved and arranged the kitchen like a factory, to save steps.
Some ten thousand kitchens were built. The idea of the rational kitchen spread, and in Sweden the Home Research Institute later measured kitchens in the same way.
Materials: Wood, metal, tiles
Manufacture: Assembled in a factory and installed in thousands of new flats.
The narrow room where everything can be reached in a few steps.
Aluminium drawers for dry goods, with a spout to pour from.
The window at the end and the blue-green colour, said to keep flies away.