Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen

Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen examines the twentieth-centurytransformation of the kitchen through the collection of The Museum ofModern Art, featuring a wide variety of design objects, architecturalplans, posters, archival photographs, and artworks—ranging from theiconic Frankfurt Kitchen to an electric teakettle, heat resistant glasswares, and colorful plastics, such as Tupperware and Japanese artificialfood. With an introductory essay by Juliet Kinchin, Curator in MoMA'sDepartment of Architecture and Design, this volume is a lively explorationof the kitchen as a barometer of changing technology, aesthetics, andideologies.