Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky speaks at a peace demonstration against nuclear armament in Vienna, June 1961. Photo: Oscar Horowitz When a flood destroyed our apartment’s kitchen some years ago, my wife ...

This was kind of a big deal: one day in 1912 a consulting editor at Ladies' Home Journal put down her sewing to listen to her husband and his friend talk about a new concept called efficiency. It gave ...

This week in New York, the city's foodie elites gathered to poke around an 80-year-old kitchen. It was designed in 1926 for a housing project in Frankfurt, Germany. But rather than being updated with ...

Berlin’s Museum der Dinge (Museum of Things) is home to the Werkbundarchiv, a collection of objects produced from 1907 up until the midcentury by the Deutsche Werkbund (German Work Federation), an ...

(AP) — The kitchen, once tucked away in the basement or a back annex, became a laboratory of modern design in the 20th century. It became a showcase for consumer culture and a symbol of changing ...

NEW YORK — There’s one of the brown paper bags made by the Union Paper Bag Machine Company in the 1880s. There’s a dashingly futuristic 1968 Italian mobile kitchen and a collapsible solar-powered ...

NEW YORK — The kitchen, once tucked away in the basement or a back annex, became a laboratory of modern design in the 20th century. It became a showcase for consumer culture and a symbol of changing ...

“Oftentimes people think they need to replace old with new, but in fact by simply restoring what’s already there you can give a space new life and showcase its original beauty,” writes Karalyn Ann ...