MAD

The Scuffletown, Virginia, wine appreciation and racquetball society prepare for take-off.

Better Homes and Gardens, 1977.

Portable Globe House for Well-Rounded Living, 1961 

The museum shows a newly renovated „Frankfurter Küche“, one of the first fitted kitchens. The austrian architect (the first one of her country) designed it for the social housing project „Das Neue Frankfurt“ by Ernst May, 30 variants were available, no larger than six to seven sq.m., over 10.000 units were made. Schütte-Lihotzky had a „kitchen lab“ in mind. The model on show is a further developed version, including a lockable drawer to keep the household money. The usability was once stated at 30 to 35 years, this one worked for 90 years.

For the paltry sum of $10,000 – close to $80,000 in 2017 dollars – you can have the Kitchen of the Future. Just take the two week course that teaches you how to input data using toggle switches – I’m not making this up – and you can kiss that cheap and practical cookbook goodbye.

I bet there’s a tiny cabinet in there somewhere with a canister of Tang.

Ladies’ Home Journal vol. LXVII no. 1, January 1951