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You probably don't know how utterly dysfunctional for example a typical kitchen looked before Bauhaus. See Magarete Schütte-Lihotzkys Frankfurt Kitchen: https:/

by atoav 3y ago

You probably don't know how utterly dysfunctional for example a typical kitchen looked before Bauhaus. See Magarete Schütte-Lihotzkys Frankfurt Kitchen: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_kitchen https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_kitchen The cliché Bauhaus style people know is not the thing that had the impact, everything else was.

astrange 3y ago
Is that supposed to be a good or bad kitchen? It looks hard to move around in, but the colors are nice.
- usrusr 3y ago
  It's a amazing kitchen. This isn't V8 suburbia, where garages are bigger than what an entire working class family or two lived in in interwar Europe.
- atoav 3y ago
  No I don't think you understand: before that kitchens generally looked very different and were much more dysfunctional. The reason you don't find it very spectacular from a 2024 perspective is because that kitchen design was so successful it changed how kitchens looked after it. So you will certainly find better (but also worse) kitchens today, but that kitchen design had a ton of impact on how things are looking today. Before that the typical kitchen furniture were single freestanding objects, like this stove: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Frankfurt-Kitchen%2C_kitchen_stove_%282%29.jpg/440px-Frankfurt-Kitchen%2C_kitchen_stove_%282%29.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Fr... But it is more than surface, Schütte-Lihotzky went and measured how long certain tasks were taking and optimized the layout and objects of the kitchen to minimize the waste of time, aomething that before that wasn't really a thing in residential kitchens.
bombcar 3y ago
That itself says it was a designed kitchen for a particular use case. And it incorporates things like varying countertop heights, etc. Looks workable to me - remember kitchens were not "open concept" at the time, nor made for multiple people operating in them at once.
- Shog9 3y ago
  I think atoav was crediting Bauhaus with the modern kitchen, with the Frankfurt Kitchen as an early success story. Which is both fair and faintly damning, as what has been lost along the way (functional design that makes good use of limited space) was perhaps more important than the clean lines and shiny veneer which was retained. Or maybe I'm just projecting. Been cooking on glass-topped stoves for the past few months and that tends to make me irritable.
AlbertCory 3y ago
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by atoav 3y ago

astrange 3y ago

Is that supposed to be a good or bad kitchen? It looks hard to move around in, but the colors are nice.

usrusr 3y ago
It's a amazing kitchen. This isn't V8 suburbia, where garages are bigger than what an entire working class family or two lived in in interwar Europe.
atoav 3y ago
No I don't think you understand: before that kitchens generally looked very different and were much more dysfunctional. The reason you don't find it very spectacular from a 2024 perspective is because that kitchen design was so successful it changed how kitchens looked after it. So you will certainly find better (but also worse) kitchens today, but that kitchen design had a ton of impact on how things are looking today. Before that the typical kitchen furniture were single freestanding objects, like this stove: https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Frankfurt-Kitchen%2C_kitchen_stove_%282%29.jpg/440px-Frankfurt-Kitchen%2C_kitchen_stove_%282%29.jpg https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/5b/Fr... But it is more than surface, Schütte-Lihotzky went and measured how long certain tasks were taking and optimized the layout and objects of the kitchen to minimize the waste of time, aomething that before that wasn't really a thing in residential kitchens.

bombcar 3y ago

That itself says it was a designed kitchen for a particular use case. And it incorporates things like varying countertop heights, etc. Looks workable to me - remember kitchens were not "open concept" at the time, nor made for multiple people operating in them at once.

Shog9 3y ago
I think atoav was crediting Bauhaus with the modern kitchen, with the Frankfurt Kitchen as an early success story. Which is both fair and faintly damning, as what has been lost along the way (functional design that makes good use of limited space) was perhaps more important than the clean lines and shiny veneer which was retained. Or maybe I'm just projecting. Been cooking on glass-topped stoves for the past few months and that tends to make me irritable.

AlbertCory 3y ago

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