Title
- (given title)
Collection
Production
- design: Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Vienna, 1925
- execution: Anonym, Vienna, 1925
Subject
Material | Technique
- walnut wood
- , spruce wood
- , veneer
- , veneered
Measurements
- height: 168.5 cm
- width: 266 cm
- width: 280 cm
Inventory number
- H 3168
Acquisition
- purchase, 1992
Department
- Furniture and Woodwork Collection
Description
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Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austria’s “first woman architect”, spent the early 1920s working for the Austrian Kleingarten- und Siedlungsbewegung [Settlement and Small Garden Movement] as well as on the large construction projects of “Red Vienna.” In 1926, she was hired by Ernst May at the Hochbauamt [Building Construction Authority] of Frankfurt am Main, where she designed her famous Frankfurt Kitchen. As a model for social housing in late-1920s Frankfurt, this working kitchen—which simultaneously served as the prototype for later fitted kitchens—offered an important contribution toward relieving the working woman from the strains of housework. Before her involvement with the Neues Frankfurt
[New Frankfurt] city planning program in 1925, she had created combined living room and bedroom furnishings for Mrs. C. Neubacher in Vienna, which likewise proved to be a space-saving and practical yet aesthetically appealing solution for an extremely small space: this room unites the functions of a bedroom and a living room in a thoroughly elegant manner.
(Hackenschmidt, Sebastian)
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room / interior, Zimmer mit Einrichtung für Frau Caroline Neubacher, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, MAK Inv.nr. H 3168
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https://sammlung.mak.at/en/collect/zimmer-mit-einrichtung-fuer-frau-caroline-neubacher_379258
Last update
- 11.10.2024
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