The “Frankfurt Kitchen”
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The 2.0 kitchen countertops will be made of white oak planks like a farm table top. This will be more durable than the formica.
Here is a url with a lot of the construction photos.
I'm really excited to be on the other side of the hard work. I want to organize the images into a website. If you are ever in the area I would be happy to show you.
What this article does not go into depth in about is how related furniture was to kitchen appliances - e.g. the furniture had a built-in bread-cutter (think 'saw blade with a hand-jank').
[1] Tried to find an article in English, but basically a dishwasher detergent company added flower-style stickers to their product - and that became a bit of a cultural movement in the 1970s/1980s. Related ad: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EYpK0A6k5oQ
This is why modern apartments have big bathrooms with copious flat space around the sink and good looking living spaces but when you actually live in them you'll find out there's not enough room to scoot around your wife's thicc ass while she's digging for something in the fridge or any attempt to host a party becomes an instant game of human bumper cars due to the traffic paths to the drinks, bathroom, main room. Many times you'll even find that these apartments can only be furnished with minimalist aesthetics while there is technically room for standard furniture and appliance sets they make the spaces unusable. Women don't get exited about the kind of "there's space on this wall for a 80" TV and if we put the beer on the left side of the fridge you can reach it without getting off the couch" and "look at all these kitchen cabinets, I'll never pull out a pan to find that it's dirty from oil/dust" raw practicality type stuff that men do and will happily trade it away to make a more aesthetic space. Men will also much more readily live in older construction and place less value upon "new" or "new-ish" so there's a healthy amount of "what new buyers want vs what used buyers want" discrepancy going on too.
Source: Too much time listening to the guy who sells the cabinets for these new apartments.
I wanted to get all the units finished before I start the redesign process. I have gotten good feedback from the users over the past 2 years. I'm about to post the last unit for rent. Once that is done I will start work on the refinements.
Most new apartments are strictly divided into tiers—singles and students in their early twenties with very little money; couples without children (yet), but lots of disposable income; families with one or two children, and a double income; and elderly couples. If you don’t fall into these demographics, you’re bound for a rough time.
These units are available for at will tenancy(no lease). My plan is to raise the rent on turn over rather than nickel and dime the existing tenants.
> That sounds… wildly specific to the US.
There’s a lot of active adult 55+ and no kid neighborhoods. I wonder how they compare to what OP describes, I’ve never been in one.
> Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky continued to design kitchens. Her mid-20th century designs incorporated electrical appliances while continuing to rely on methods for efficiency advanced by Frederick Winslow Taylor and Christine Frederick.[8]
* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frankfurt_kitchen#Influence_on...
And perhaps:
Did you mean ascetic? I’m trying to figure out what you meant but I’m not sure, because ascetic kind of contradicts the other descriptors.
Edit: just saw the other comment. I suppose they meant “aesthetically pleasing”.
The trouble with this is the implicit assumption that planned order is better. If there’s a plan, then there must be a planner, who is after all only human. He’ll have his own biases, his own emotions. And he won’t have all the information he needs. He might plan a kitchen which works really, really well for a family of four, but will it work for a bachelor? Will it work for Orthodox Jews, who need separate dairy and meat ovens, sinks, countertops, dishes and utensils?
Will it have room for innovations such as toaster ovens and smart pressure cookers (e.g. the famous Instant Pot)? What about when culture changes and show kitchens become a thing?
On the other hand, the so-called ‘senseless chaos’ of the world means treating each particular installation as its own thing.
> The notion of a regularly constructed reality corresponds to the principles of functionalism and rationality conditioned by industrial production processes. Both objects and people were to conform to these principles.
There’s another problem: demanding that people conform to the principles of industrial production processes. Every one is different in his own way — there is no average man. And it’s a short, terrible step from a system which demands that people conform to one which destroys those who don’t.
My focus is entirely based on my addressable market. That market is a small rural New England college town. It's may be hard to see but the cabinetry is designed to work in any of the 8 apartments and since they are manufactured on-sire I customize for each tenant as they come through. A few of my tenants have requested specialized features and I have accommodated those requests.
I'm still in the start-up phase. I believe each individualized request my resonate with a future tenant and I will eventually have a catalog of cabinetry for the tenants to choose from.
https://collections.vam.ac.uk/item/O121079/frankfurt-kitchen...
I could only find the French version on YouTube:
> The Neues Bauen architects were motivated by the desire to build healthy human settlements with access to clean air and light. Purely decorative architecture was rejected and the technology used to build industrial buildings was deployed for the construction of housing estates. The kitchen design of Schütte-Lihotzky was first installed in housing estates that were built in Frankfurt between 1926 and 1932. The Frankfurt kitchen was part of a new layout for apartments with gas stoves and central heating.[6]
My overall business plan is small run manufacturing to exact user specifications. The basic question I'm asking is "why should the dimension of our appliances be standardized."
Some people seem to be offended that I'm commenting too much. Every comment I have made has been about the Frankfurt kitchen and how I have been inspired by it.
If someone feels I have berated them please let me know.
Now I understand where you are coming from.