Counter Space Catalog
For you Dwellers who can't get enough modern kitchens, and who may not have made it to the show Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen up at MoMA in New York through May 2nd, the show's well-laid-out catalog is for you. A managable, well-illustrated book, Counter Space by Juliet Kinchin and Aidan O'Connor is a visual tour through 20th century kitchen design that extends from classic products and spatial innovations to an image of Jack Lemmon straining pasta through a tennis racket from the film The Apartment. My colleague Miyoko Ohtake posted on the show back in September, paying special attention to architect Grete Schütte-Lihotzky's famed Frankfurt Kitchen design, but as the book is out this month I figured I'd refresh your memories. Have a look.
Articles
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Counter Space at the MoMA
In post-World War I Germany, architect Grete Schütte-Lihotzky's "Frankfurt Kitchen" was manufactured and installed in thousands of public-housing unit across Frankfurt am Main…
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Consumer Retorts
Chris Houston, the charmingly curmudgeonly owner of Modern Artifacts in San Francisco, is not your typical retailer. Though his shop is packed to the rafters with an eclectic and highly covetable…
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Undivided Intentions
The late architect David Boone was always one to take his work home with him—he just kept it in the home’s office. The new residents of his 1972 house embrace a more fluid approach to…
Products
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Sideboard #26
Rather than tuck your dishware away behind cluttered kitchen cabinets, keep it handy for hosting in a classic Scandinavian sideboard. Famed Danish designer Arne Vodder created this piece (available…
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White Rot Sideboard
White Rot: We wanna rot. Spalted sycamore gives this angular sideboard by Scotland-based designer Derek Walsh its uniquely patterned facade.
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Return to Me Necklace
Return to Me’s high-design DIY necklace comes with your choice of silver or 24k gold plated piece, needlepoint needle, thread, and threader, plus practice templates and directions, then…
Tips
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Create Your Own Sideboard
Sideboards present an opportunity to create a gallery of objects you’ve created. Consider taking an unorthodox piece—like a great crate you found—and adding doors to make it a…
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What to Keep inside a Credenza
It’s really handy to have extra clean dishes, plates, and silverware ready to go in the credenza. The sideboard is also a nice place to bring the food and place it somewhere besides the table.
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Stainless-Steel Kitchen Islands: Ideal for Small Kitchens
When the Stonorovs set out to design their 400-square-foot house in Oakland for themselves and their young toddler, the kitchen required particular attention. They found a kitchen…
Events
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Media Preview for Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen
Soon to open at MoMA is Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen, an exhibition chronicling the transformation of 20th century kitchen design. On September 14th, MoMA's Department of…
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Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen
Counter Space explores the twentieth-century transformation of the kitchen and highlights MoMA’s recent acquisition of an unusually complete example of the iconic “Frankfurt…
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Panel Discussion: Return of Modernism
Modernism was the go-to style of the mid-20th century, with famous designers such as Russel Wright, Eero Saarinen, and Charles and Ray Eames. By the end of the century, however, its glow had faded…
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