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Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky: The Frankfurt Kitchen Architect
In this episode, Lucas and Luna look at the Frankfurt Kitchen, designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky in 1926, and how it became a symbol of modernist efficiency and a quiet revolution in domestic life. They discuss Schütte-Lihotzky's training at the Wiener Kunstgewerbeschule, her collaboration with Ernst May on the Neues Frankfurt housing project, the kitchen's ergonomic design based on time-and-motion studies, its prefabricated production in Frankfurt, and its mixed reception among German housewives. The episode also traces the kitchen's influence on later designs, including…
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