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I was lucky enough to meet her once, when at over one hundred years old, she was ever focused on change-making ideas. Aside from her prominent
revolutionary role and political activities, I will always be an admirer of her reasoning and dedication to creating a better life for many working mothers. In the complex reality
of central Europe in the nineteenth, she demonstrated that modernism could solve practical problems, as well as aesthetical ones.
Giving importance to the kitchen as a place not to be hidden out of sight, she paved the way for future strategists and designers to put the human at
the centre. In her first book ‘The Sensual Home,’ Ilse Crawford states ‘Food is not simply about eating, but about preparation, cooking, presentation and finally consuming
and enjoying. Nourish body and soul. Sensual food is food that we enjoy for what it is and not for what it is turned into through design and domestic science.’ Cooking is like
love, it engages all the senses.
