Counter Space: MoMA Celebrates Kitchen Design
By Diana Cook
Barefoot, pregnant and in the kitchen (or designing it). The upcoming Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen at the Museum of Modern Art celebrates MOMA’s recent acquisition of an intact “Frankfurt Kitchen.” The Frankfort Kitchen, designed in 1926 by architect Greta Schütte-Lihotzky, uses an integrated approach to storage appliances and work spaces.
The show opens September 15th and features the Frankfurt Kitchen alongside a 1968 mobile fold-out unit manufactured by the Italian company Snaidero. A wide variety of design objects, architectural plans, posters, archival photographs, and selected artworks, all drawn from MoMA’s collection. Prominence is given to the contribution of women throughout the exhibition, not only as the primary consumers and users of the domestic kitchen, but also as reformers, architects, designers, and as artists who have critically addressed kitchen culture and myths.
