Kitchen designer Lyn Peterson says that everything we take for granted can be traced back to the Frankfurt Kitchen, created by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky in the late 1920s. It’s the mother of all modern kitchens, and an original version was recently acquired by New York’s Museum of Modern Art.
Produced by Britta Conroy-Randall.
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