Design Postcards: the fitted kitchen
This simple yet radical 20th-Century innovation changed the home forever. And if was designed by a woman, of course.
As 2025 dawns I am working on two kitchen campaigns – one for a new product launch with B&Q and the other a styling assignment for a three-day event for Smeg, so it seems fitting to write about the work of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, an architect, who I came across during my research and who designed the first fitted kitchen in 1926.
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