Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
Margarete "Grete" Schütte-Lihotzky was an Austrian architect and a communist activist in the Austrian resistance to Nazism. She is mostly remembered today for designing what is known as the Frankfurt kitchen.
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky
The Frankfurt Kitchen
Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky at age 100 in 1997
Grave of honour in the Vienna Central Cemetery
The Frankfurt kitchen was a milestone in domestic architecture, considered the forerunner of modern fitted kitchens, for it was the first kitchen in history built after a unified concept, i.e. low-cost design that would enable efficient work. It was designed in 1926 by Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky for architect Ernst May's social housing project New Frankfurt in Frankfurt, Germany.
The Frankfurt kitchen (view from the entrance)
The reconstruction shown at MAK Vienna
The electric stove
As seen at the Moma, New York, 2010