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The first Austrian female architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky was deeply impressed by the independence of American female thinkers. When asked
to design the kitchen for social housing in Frankfurt in 1926, she developed her concept around scientific organisation for the domestic work space. Schütte-Lihotzky
transformed the kitchen into the housewife’s laboratory. She took on board spatial learnings from the design of railroad carriages, and adopted the colours green and blue
which naturally repel flies. The first ten thousand pieces were produced and installed.
