Frankfurt kitchen

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_kitchen

by kioleanu • 8 years ago

75 12 8 years ago

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Interesting! What really intrigues me is how very familiar, at a very very hindbrain level, this layout is to me. If someone asked me to sketch a generic kitchen, I would certainly draw something recognisably similar. Sets me wondering how much else that fades into the scenery day-to-day in the modern world has its origin in someone's deliberate design.

degenerate• 8 years ago

This video has a lot more pictures and information: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jJiFBHU2ZMM

bogomipz2• 8 years ago

This is also known as a "galley kitchen" similar to those found in the galley of ship:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galley_(kitchen)

oh_sigh• 8 years ago

Correct me if I'm wrong but a galley kitchen is just a kitchen of certain dimensions(that is, long and narrow), whereas the Frankfurt kitchen is a complete layout, involving location of drawers, appliances, etc.

bogomipz2• 8 years ago

From the link:

"The term galley kitchen is also used to refer to the design of household kitchen wherein the units are fitted into a continuous array with no kitchen table, allowing maximum use of a restricted space, and work with the minimum of required movement between units.

The first mass-produced galley kitchen design was known as the Frankfurt kitchen, designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky."

The Frankfurt Kitchen was a type of galley kitchen.

contingencies• 8 years ago

Interesting as we have basically spent 2.5 years building a Frankfurt kitchen without the humans...

AdamM12• 8 years ago

Only learned about this because of highly ranked r/DIY post from someone in Germany just the other day.

soperj• 8 years ago

I've been trying without success to find a picture of the Stuttgart kitchen mentioned in the article. Anyone?

lbody• 8 years ago

Seems to be known as the weissenhof house built for Jacobus Oud. http://www.worldcat.org/title/weissenhof-houses-5-9-kitchen-...

QuercusMax• 8 years ago

Possibly this: https://i.pinimg.com/originals/57/1b/42/571b4248477766f98f58...

Or one of the pictures here: http://www.worldcat.org/title/weissenhof-houses-5-9-kitchen-...

Very low quality, but I suspect you won't find much better without a physical copy.

mturmon• 8 years ago

My house has a vintage-1959 galley kitchen, which is Taylorist along the same lines as the OP, and I have to say: it is a really efficient work space. You don't have to waste steps walking around. I (personally) prefer the galley layout to the square layout (vintage 1920) that I previously had.

gyyfl• 8 years ago

I've seen these in person and the thing that always struck me is how much smaller people used to be. The heights of counters, everything.

Frankfurt kitchen

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