{"id":28129,"date":"2024-03-06T15:44:21","date_gmt":"2024-03-06T14:44:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.die-neue-sammlung.de\/ausstellung\/kitchen-culture\/"},"modified":"2024-12-10T12:35:39","modified_gmt":"2024-12-10T11:35:39","slug":"kitchen-culture","status":"publish","type":"exhibition","link":"https:\/\/www.die-neue-sammlung.de\/er\/ausstellung\/kitchen-culture\/","title":{"rendered":"Kitchen Culture"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kitchen Culture<\/h1>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Installation view “Kitchen Culture”, Die Neue Sammlung \u2013 The Design Museum, 2024<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t
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About the exhibition<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n\n
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Kitchen culture has changed a lot
in the last 100 years:
from the first fitted kitchen<\/strong> to
completely customised kitchens.
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During this time, designers and architects
have constantly developed new ideas <\/strong>for modern kitchens.
They always paid attention to technical and social changes.

Kitchens are very different:
They can be simple and small,
or they can be important rooms in the home.
In the kitchen, you sit together and chat.

At the beginning of the exhibition,
you will see the Frankfurt Kitchen<\/strong> from the year 1926<\/strong>.
Margarete Sch\u00fctte-Lihotzky<\/strong> has developed
this kitchen for working women.
It is the first fitted kitchen.
The kitchen is designed to make housework easier for
the women because they had to walk less.
The Frankfurt Kitchen was installed in
around 10,000 apartments<\/strong>.

After the Second World War, there was functionalism<\/strong>.
This is a style of architecture.
Everything was designed to be functional and useful.
In functionalist houses, kitchens were particularly important<\/strong>.

In the exhibition, you will see these famous examples:
\u2022\tThe kitchen unit in the apartment tower block
Unit\u00e9 d\u2019habitation<\/strong> in the city of Marseille in France.
Unit\u00e9 d\u2019habitation is pronounced like this:
Ioo-nee-tay d-abi-ta-syo.
This is French and means: united living unit.
The architect Le Corbusier <\/strong>has designed this building
together with Charlotte Perriand and Andr\u00e9 Wogenscky.
In the years from 1946 to 1952, these kitchen units
were installed in around 330<\/strong> small apartments in France.

\u2022\tA kitchen unit by Arne Jacobsen<\/strong>.
He was an architect and designer from Denmark.
He wanted the kitchen to be the centre of single-family houses.
In 1957, he presented this exact kitchen unit at
the International Building Exhibition in Berlin.

\u2022\tThe kitchen units Eschebach K21<\/strong> from 1956<\/strong>.
They were made by VEB<\/strong> K\u00fcchen-M\u00f6bel in the city of Radeberg.
VEB means V<\/strong>olks-E<\/strong>igener B<\/strong>etrieb in German.
In English, this means people-owned enterprise.
This kitchen furniture was very popular in
East Germany and the Soviet Union.
It came in many different colours and
you could use it in many different ways.

The design office OHA<\/a><\/strong> in Munich
designed the architecture for this exhibition.
OHA stands for: O<\/strong>ffice H<\/strong>einzelmann A<\/strong>jadi.

OHA has chosen particle board<\/strong> for the exhibition.
This is the material used for almost all modern fitted kitchens
that are produced in large numbers.
OHA\u2019s architecture allows us
to see the history<\/strong> and the future<\/strong> of kitchens.
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