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  Frankfurt kitchen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The "Frankfurt kitchen" was a milestone in domestic architecture, considered the fore-runner of modern built-in kitchens, for it realised for the first time a kitchen built after a unified concept, designed to enable efficient work and to be built at low costs.
The resulting Frankfurt kitchen was a narrow double-file kitchen measuring 1.9 m by 3.4 m.
The cost of a single kitchen, fully equipped, was moderate (a few hundred Reichsmark); the costs were passed on to the rent (which reportedly increased the rents by 1 RM per month).
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 Kitchen - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The kitchen became a much cleaner space with the advent of "cooking machines", closed stoves made of iron plates and fired by wood and increasingly charcoal or coal, and that had flue pipes connected to the chimney.
The re-integration of the kitchen and the living area went hand in hand with a change in the perception of cooking: increasingly, cooking was seen as a creative and sometimes social act instead of work, especially in upper social classes.
A social housing project in Frankfurt (the Römerstadt of architect Ernst May) realized in 1927/28 was the breakthrough for her Frankfurt kitchen, which embodied this new notion of efficiency in the kitchen.
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 Frankfurt kitchen -- Facts, Info, and Encyclopedia article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The resulting Frankfurt kitchen was a narrow double-file kitchen measuring 1.9 (The 13th letter of the Roman alphabet) m by 3.4 m.
Along the left side (as seen from the entrance), the (A kitchen appliance used for cooking food) stove was placed, followed by a sliding door connecting the kitchen to the dining and living room.
The cost of a single kitchen, fully equipped, was moderate (a few hundred (additional info and facts about Reichsmark) Reichsmark); the costs were passed on to the rent (which reportedly increased the rents by 1 RM per month).
www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/f/fr/frankfurt_kitchen.htm   (1383 words)

  
 Virtual Vienna Net - Through Billie Ann's Eyes - Mother of the Modern Built-in Kitchen: Margarete (Grete) ...
Then using a railroad dining car kitchen as her model, she designed a kitchen that was just 1.90 meters (about 6'3") wide and 3.44 meters (11'4") long resulting in a floor space of 6.5 square meters (about 70 square feet).
Kitchen furniture was installed on raised concrete platforms to avoid dirt-catching nooks and crannies, and the space between the top of cabinets and the ceiling was enclosed for the same purpose.
Following the success of her Frankfurt kitchens, Schütte-Lihotzky joined a team of German and Austrian architects who were invited to the Soviet Union to design towns for the newly established industrial complexes.
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 Read about Frankfurt kitchen at WorldVillage Encyclopedia. Research Frankfurt kitchen and learn about Frankfurt kitchen ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The "Frankfurt kitchen" was a milestone in domestic architecture, considered the fore-runner of modern built-in
dining car kitchens, which she saw as a Taylorist ideal: even though these were very small, two people could prepare and serve the meals for about 100 guests and still do the dishes and even store them as well as the glasses and drinks.
emancipatory intentions that had motivated the development of the work kitchen in part had actually backfired: precisely because of the specialised rationalisation and the small size of these kitchens such that only one person could work comfortably, housewifes tended to become isolated from the life in the rest of the house.
encyclopedia.worldvillage.com /s/b/Frankfurt_kitchen   (1504 words)

  
 Kitchen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In a Roman villa, the kitchen was typically integrated into the main building as a separate room, set apart for practical reasons (smoke) and sociological reasons (operated by slaves).
While this "work kitchen" and variants derived from it were a great success for tenement buildings, home owners had different demands and didn't want to be constrained by a 6.4 ; kitchen.
Restaurant and canteen kitchens found in hotels, hospitals, army barracks and similar establishments are generally (in the Western world) subject to public health laws.
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 Frankfurt kitchen - Open Encyclopedia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The resulting Frankfurt kitchen was a narrow double-file kitchen measuring 1.9 m by 3.4 m.
Dedicated, labelled storage bins for common ingredients such as flour, sugar, rice and others should have helped keep the kitchen tidy and well-organized; the workspace had an integrated, removable "garbage drawer" such that scraps could just be shoved into it while working and the whole thing emptied at once afterwards.
For the rest of the 20th century, the small, rationalized work kitchen was a standard in tenement buildings thoughout Europe.
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 The world's top kitchen websites   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Within homes, the kitchen can be the center of other activities as well, depending on its size, furnishing, and equipment (see also major appliance), for example washing up (with or without dishwasher), washing and drying laundry (often with a washing machine), normal and refrigerated food storage, and eating.
Restaurant and canteen kitchens found in hotels, hospitals, army barracks and similar establishments are generally (in the Western world) subject to public health laws; they are inspected periodically by public-health officials, and it occasionally happens that a restaurant is forcibly closed by the officials for failing to meet the hygienic requirements mandated by the law.
Galleys are the kitchens aboard ships: on yachts, one has to cook in cramped space and often has only one or two gas burners (fuelled by a gas bottle), but those on luxury liners or large warships are comparable in every respect with restaurants or canteen kitchens.
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Frankfurt am Main, the smallest global city in the world, is all of these things at once.
The term 'the new Frankfurt' found worldwide acclaim due to the municipal construction councillor Ernst May and the spacious residential estates which were built under him.
During the period when Ernst May was the director of the Frankfurt building authority, numerous large public buildings and over 15,000 residential units were built by the city of Frankfurt itself or the housing associations, mainly in satellite estates along the Nidda valley.
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 Frankfurt Hotel and Travel, Frankfurt Germany Hotel and Travel Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Frankfurt Germany Hotel and Travel Guide - The city of Frankfurt is positioned in the heart of Europe, offering a brilliant mix of ancient and modern culture.
Frankfurt can be found in south-western Germany on the Main River.
Frankfurt is also the birthplace of Gutenberg's original printing press and shop.
www.frankfurthotelandtravel.com   (474 words)

  
 Austrian Information   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
For the municipal building department of Frankfurt she designed, among other things, the so-called "Frankfurt Kitchen," which was rather like the American kitchen, which became so popular after the Second World War.
Kitchen refuse was tipped from the worktop into a refuse chute and from there into a rubbish bin.
The mobile element in her kitchen was a revolving stool on castors, which enabled the housewife to perform as many tasks as possible seated on the stool.
www.austria.org /mar97/lihotzky.htm   (1515 words)

  
 RECENT PHILOSOPHY: The Frankfurt School
The project of the Frankfurt School was to develop a critical theory of contemporary society that would combine philosophy, social theory, economics, and cultural criticism in a new type of interdisciplinary theory.
Members of the Frankfurt School developed highly provocative and original perspectives on contemporary society and culture, including analyses of fascism, state monopoly capitalism, the culture industries, advanced industrial society, and the high-tech and consumer society that we currently find ourselves in.
Drawing on Hegel, Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, and Weber, the Frankfurt School synthesized philosophy and social theory to develop a critical theory of contemporary society.
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 ISH Kitchen + Bathroom Gulf, Press Releases EPOC Messe Frankfurt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
International and local exhibitors, local manufacturers and suppliers are all set for the ultimate trade fair for designer kitchens and bathrooms, ISH Kitchen & Bathroom, scheduled to be held from 15th - 17th May 2005 at the Dubai World Trade Centre.
Based upon the impeccable credentials of its parent show in Frankfurt, the ISH brand proves to be globally respected by the entire industry, attracting major international and local interest.
Organised by Epoc Messe Frankfurt, the event is scheduled to be held at the Dubai World Trade Centre from 15th — 17th May. According to Christopher Hudson, exhibitions director of Epoc Messe Frankfurt, the ISH Kitchen & Bathroom brand represents what's hot from a designers point of view.
www.kitchensandbathroomsexpo.com /press.html   (2104 words)

  
 Kitchen & Bathrooms trade fair to show latest innovations | ISH Kitchen & Bathroom
Moving into the kitchen sector provides a glimpse of kitchens of the future, with the keynotes on ergonomics, minimalism, texture, materials and colour.
ISH Kitchen and Bathroom Gulf 2005, now in its 2nd year, is the largest trade event of its kind in the Middle East focused exclusively on the Kitchen and Bathroom sector.
Epoc Messe Frankfurt is a subsidiary of Messe Frankfurt, the world's second largest trade fair organiser conducting over 100 events worldwide with 15 subsidiaries across Europe, Asia, America, Africa and the Middle East including ISH Frankfurt, ISH North America, ISH China and Light and Build Frankfurt.
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 Earliest Surviving Fitted Kitchen Unearthed For V&A Museum Show - 24 Hour Museum - official guide to UK museums, ...   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
The first mass produced fitted kitchen was designed and built for use on a Frankfurt housing estate in the late 1920s and an example of this first influential batch will go on show at the V&A next year.
Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky (1897-2000) was an architect working in Frankfurt’s Municipal Building Department when she designed the kitchens for flats in a massive housing programme being built in the city between 1925 and 1930.
Frankfurt was run at the time by a particularly enlightened, centre-left local government and its municipal construction was directed and designed by radical Modernist architects.
www.24hourmuseum.org.uk /nwh_gfx_en/ART31499.html   (869 words)

  
 ISH Kitchen + Bathroom Gulf, EPOC Messe Frankfurt   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
ISH the highly successful Messe Frankfurt fair, is the world's largest and foremost exhibition for the bathroom, kitchen, heating and air conditioning trade sectors.
ISH Frankfurt has over the years overseen the creation of a number of highly successful daughter events around the world such as ISH China and ISH North America.
The event enjoyed a broad spectrum of all possible volume purchasers of kitchen and bathroom fittings and equipment from throughout the entire region.
www.kitchensandbathroomsexpo.com   (414 words)

  
 ipedia.com: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky Article   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
In 1926 Lihotzky also created the Frankfurt Kitchen, which was the prototype of the built-in kitchen as it is known today.
Based on the scientific research by U.S. management expert Frederick Winslow Taylor, Lihotzky used a railroad dining car kitchen as her model to design a "housewife's laboratory" using a minimum of space but offering a maximum of comfort and equipment to the working mother.
The Frankfurt City Council eventually installed 10,000 of her mass-produced, prefabricated kitchens in newly-built working-class apartments.
www.ipedia.com /margarete_schuette_lihotzky.html   (934 words)

  
 CNN Food Central - Restaurants:
A couple of Frankfurt specialties are grune sosse (green sauce: rich cream or mayonnaise base with herbs, including cress, chives, sorrel and parsley) and rippchen mit kraut (pork chop and sauerkraut).
The classic Frankfurt drink is apfelwein (known in the local dialect as ebbelwoi), an apple wine served in a decorative clay pitcher (called a bembel).
Tigerpalast—Located downstairs at Frankfurt's top Variete theater, Tigerpalast is known for its special theater meals and good-value set menus (meat, seafood and vegetarian selections).
www.cnn.com /FOOD/restaurants/weissmann/world/frankfurt.html   (1352 words)

  
 Kitchen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
European medieval kitchen was driven automatically by a propeller—the fl cloverleaf-like structure in the upper left.
Following the end of WWII, massive demand in Europe for low-price, high-tech consumer goods led to Western European kitchens being designed to accomadate new appliances such as refrigerators and electric/gas cookers.
Two collections of architecture students' works on the kitchen: "Küchen" (PDF, 3 Mb) and "Küchen, 2.
www.worldhistory.com /wiki/K/Kitchen.htm   (4475 words)

  
 Messe Frankfurt GmbH - Home
With more than 100 trade fairs and exhibitions worldwide the Messe Frankfurt GmbH is a major player in global trade fair business.
All trade fairs outside Frankfurt at a glance...
The European prize is presented in recognition of projects which combine exemplary architectural design with innovative engineering.
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 Kitchen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Two collections of architecture students' works on the kitchen: "Küchen" (http://www.uni-stuttgart.de/ibbte/pages/downloads/reader/pdf/01_kuechen.pdf) (PDF, 3 Mb) and "Küchen, 2.
Online edition (http://www.stoa.org/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Stoa%3Atext%3A2001.04.0001;query=toc;layout=;loc=1.0) of Nicolas Cahill's Household and City Organization at Olynthus (ISBN 0-300-08495-1), which has some information about the kitchens in ancient Greek times.
Kitchen is also a novel by Japanese author Yoshimoto Banana (Banana Yoshimoto)de:Küche
www.comicscomics.com /search.php?title=Kitchen   (4453 words)

  
 Kitchen and Bath Design News - Driving Professionals in the Kitchen and Bath Industry @KitchenBathDesign.com   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
Everything and the Kitchen Sink, written by Kitchen and Bath Design News editor Janice Costa and contributing writer Daina Manning, and published by Andrews McMeel Publishing.
Understanding the perks and pitfalls of the kitchen and bath market can lead to a healthier bottom line.
Interior cabinet fittings and accessories are a growing component in the quest for a perfect kitchen, say dealers and manufacturers.
www.kitchenbathdesign.com   (294 words)

  
 Encyclopedia: Frankfurt kitchen   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-19)
She did detailed time-motion studies to determine how long each processing step in the kitchen took, re-designed and optimized workflows, and planned her kitchen design such that it should optimally support these workflows.
276 (March 2004) (http://www.gnm.de/Download/ma/maerz_2004.pdf) of the Germanic National Museum in Nuremberg has a section of the Frankfurt kitchen with description (in German) and images.
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www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Frankfurt-kitchen   (1505 words)

  
 Westend apartment with two bedrooms for rent in Frankfurt
Westend apartment with two bedrooms for rent in Frankfurt
Two bedroom apartment with built in kitchen in Frankfurt Westend, about 78 sqm size.
Newly renovated, new floor with carpet, bath with tub, large balconey, very quiet location.
www.allgrund.com /rent/19500/index_19500.html   (121 words)

  
 REAL German Potato Salad - direct from my friend in Frankfurt's Kitchen Recipe
REAL German Potato Salad - direct from my friend in Frankfurt's Kitchen Recipe
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 Frankfurt Kitchen & Home at Shop Ireland
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