Counter Space : Design and the Modern Kitchen - the exhibition catalogue from MoMA available to buy at Museum Bookstore

Counter Space : Design and the Modern Kitchen

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'Counter Space sprints with dazzling speed and pinpoint precision across an amazing amount of social and aesthetic history, and shows how these histories are connected' - New York Times

A beautiful book about the evolution of the kitchen - with images drawn from MoMA's collection

Over the course of the past century, the kitchen, more than any other room in the modern dwelling, has been the focus of intensive aesthetic and technological innovation. Historically, European and American kitchens were often drab, poorly ventilated, and hidden from view in a basement or annexe. Towards the end of the 19th century, however, the kitchen became a central concern of modernism and a testing ground for new materials and technologies.

Since then, the room has come to articulate and at times actively challenge society's relationships to food, consumerism, the domestic role of women, and even international politics. Counter Space examines the 20th-century transformation of the kitchen through the collection of The Museum of Modern Art, featuring a wide variety of design objects, architectural plans, posters, archival photographs and artworks ranging from the iconic Frankfurt Kitchen, mass-produced for German public housing estates in the aftermath of World War I, to an electric kettle, heat-resistant glassware and colourful plastics. With an introductory essay by Juliet Kinchin, this volume is a lively introduction to the kitchen as a barometer of changing technology, aesthetics and ideology.

Details
  • Author: Juliet Kinchin
  • Hardcover: 88 pages
  • Date published: February 2011
  • Language: English
  • ISBN: 978-0870708084

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