In 1926, Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky created the modern kitchen. It was called the Frankfurt Kitchen and was something she didn’t like to talk about as she had done so much more - ...

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 ...

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 ...

It's not uncommon to link a creator with their pièce de résistance: Leonardo and the Mona Lisa, Einstein and the theory of general relativity, Steve Jobs and the iPhone. But in the case of the ...

This was kind of a big deal: one day in 1912 a consulting editor at Ladies' Home Journal put down her sewing to listen to her husband and his friend talk about a new concept called efficiency. It gave ...

This week in New York, the city's foodie elites gathered to poke around an 80-year-old kitchen. It was designed in 1926 for a housing project in Frankfurt, Germany. But rather than being updated with ...

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 ...