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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“I’ve done a lot more in my life than just this!” Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, then in her late 90s, told a reporter in 1997. The Austrian architect had been asked about a project she was sick and ...

Measuring a meager 1.9m x 3.4m, and inspired by the compact kitchen facilities of the luxury modern railcar, Lihotsky invented the first mass-produced fitted kitchen, and the world has never looked ...

Create an account or log in to save stories. EMILY BRIGHT: In the archives of the Minneapolis Institute of Art sits a kitchen. It doesn't look like any other piece of high art you might find at Mia.

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 ...

NEW YORK — There’s one of the brown paper bags made by the Union Paper Bag Machine Company in the 1880s. There’s a dashingly futuristic 1968 Italian mobile kitchen and a collapsible solar-powered ...

Around a century ago, working in the kitchen was still cumbersome and inefficient. But then a Viennese architect had a groundbreaking idea that has endured to this day: the fitted kitchen. "If I had ...