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@ Emma the Curious 🧐
2025-02-27 08:20:58
Feminist, Communist, Architect: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky designed the Frankfurt Kitchen, the prototype of the modern fitted kitchen. She resented the implication that her gender automatically endowed her with secret domestic knowledge, writing in her memoir that “it fed into the notions among the bourgeoisie and petite bourgeoisie at the time that women essentially work in the home at the kitchen stove.”
https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/margarete-schutte-lihotzky-frankfurt-kitchen