wooden plate holder fixed to the base of the glazed wall cupboards.
Schütte-Lihotzky’s small ‘laboratory’ kitchen transformed Frederick’s
essentially utilitarian spaces into a much more visually elegant solution
to the same problem.
While so much of Schütte-Lihotzky’s design depended on the ideas
and actions of both Beecher and Frederick, it had a more ‘modern’ look
and feel to it than the more overtly functional kitchens the last two
women had created. This was achieved through the visual integration of
the elements into a whole, a self-conscious use of colour – the cabinet 139
The ‘Frankfurt’ Kitchen, designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky in 1926 – 7.