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The Frankfurt Kitchen: How a Radical Design Remade the Home
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky designed the Frankfurt Kitchen in 1926, a compact, scientifically planned workspace that became a global icon of modernist design. This episode follows her from the Vienna workshops to the New Frankfurt housing project, where she and architect Ernst May reimagined urban living for the working class. We walk through the kitchen's innovations: the continuous work surface, the built-in storage bins, the fold-down ironing board, the adjustable stool. We talk about how she studied household tasks like a time-and-motion engineer, borrowed ideas from American…
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