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Counter Space at the Museum of Modern Art • New York City • Through March 14, 2011
 
Frankfurt Kitchen from the Höhenblick Housing Estate, Frankfurt, Germany
(reconstruction,
above left; original, right) |
Now that we all have Jetson kitchens,
what's more amusing than looking at historical images of the days of primitive yore?
Meal machine, experimental laboratory, status symbol, domestic
prison, or the creative and spiritual heart of the home? Over
the course of the past century no other room has been the focus of such
intensive aesthetic and technological innovation, or as loaded with
cultural significance. Kitchen design has been both a central concern of
modernism and fundamental to our concept of modern life. Drawn entirely
from MoMA’s collection, this exhibition explores the 20th-century
transformation of the kitchen as a barometer of changing technologies,
aesthetics, and ideologies.
We were intrigued by the Frankfurt Kitchen (1927) designed by Grete Schütte-Lihotzky (1897-2000)was "rational, unpretentious, and socially oriented—was conceived as one of the first steps toward building a better, more egalitarian world in the late 1920s."
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