The Big Kitchen Debate
Occasion of the exhibition “Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen” is the acquisition of the famous Frankfurt kitchen, which was designed in 1926 by the Viennese architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky on behalf of the Frankfurt municipal department heads.
Goal it was to rationalize the action sequences in cooking, baking and cleaning and women to facilitate their work. Schuette-Lihotzky was, after all, the first woman who has completed a degree in architecture in Austria. Your joy is in loose gray held Frankfurter model as the prototype for the modern kitchen.
“We often take food for granted,” said curator Juliet Kinchin. They would define gender roles and be with their technical innovations symbol of their time. “In addition, it is a complex, dangerous and sexy place.” Statistically, most accidents occur in the home in the kitchen. Artists sought to hearth and home have always enjoyed as a game platform. 300 objects and works from the collection of the MoMA has Kinchin gathered for their issue. Including the 1909, designed by the German Peter Behrens’s first electric kettle, old posters like the German of the municipal gas works of 1924, books are discussed in which the “Select” worries “of Haufrau find the right ice machine and American commercials in which a couple like Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire dancing around to the refrigerators.
A photo of Richard Nixon and Nikita Khrushchev kitchen debate shows titled as exchange of blows during an international exhibition in Moscow 1959th Nixon praised the sight of a kitchen made in U.S. innovation and freedom, Khrushchev retorted: “.? America I’m sorry, if your life is really only from cuisines”
Works by Tom Wesselmann and Cindy Sherman and Mac Adams, whose photos of the women reflected in black lingerie in the toaster, complement the kitchen show. Not be missing Tupperware, Braun appliances or kitchen Swiss watches. Kinchin favorite piece is designed in the seventies, foldable solar-powered cooker. Otherwise, it considers it the way they cook quite loosely. “In the kitchen you will always find me at parties.”
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