Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky

Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky, Austria's first woman architect, designed the Frankfurt Kitchen in 1926 for Ernst May's social housing estates, a compact galley with fitted cupboards, labelled aluminium storage drawers, a fold-down ironing board and a work sequence planned by timing housework like a railway dining car. Around 10,000 were built, and it is the ancestor of the modern fitted kitchen.