“If I had known that everyone would keep talking about nothing else, I would never have built that damned kitchen!”

[Alan Ambrose]

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/nov/12/damned-kitchen-inventor-fitted-frankfurt-margarete-schutte-lihotzky

[SteamyTea]

This bit, from the same page, was interesting.

 

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/article/2024/jun/04/plumbed-bath-diy-diehards-affordable-homes

[Alan Ambrose]

Yes, that’s v sweet and it makes doing a single self build look easy by comparison. Wonder what happens if you find later that you don’t like your neighbours much?

[Alan Ambrose]

This also makes our builds look easy:

 

https://edition.cnn.com/2024/11/12/style/hurricane-resistant-homes-deltec-dfi/index.html

[SteamyTea]

4 minutes ago, Alan Ambrose said:

Wonder what happens if you find later that you don’t like your neighbours much?

Why wait, just assume they are tossers and design it all accordingly.

Now that would be a challenge to an Architect.

High fences make for good neighbours.

@ETC, any idea how to deal with that.

[Mike]

On 12/11/2024 at 18:37, Alan Ambrose said:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2024/nov/12/damned-kitchen-inventor-fitted-frankfurt-margarete-schutte-lihotzky

An interesting article and an era-defining kitchen, though most of the features mentioned - continuous countertops, built-in cabinets and drawers optimised for storage, a tiled splashback - are more-or present in Peter Behrens' 1901  Art Nouveau kitchen in Darmstadt:

 

[Alan Ambrose]

Interesting to forever change thinking about kitchens though.