Sloth / Frankfurt Kitchen
The way that the Frankfurt kitchen demands efficiency seamlessly plays into the idea of taking unnecessary amounts of effort out of everyday tasks. Mothers of Berlin were no longer just housewives; they were now apart of the workforce, and a third of working women were also wives with children or of childbearing age (Grossman 1986, 65). The Frankfurt kitchen provided a simple solution for better time management for these neue Frauen. The design was key in making the lives of working mothers easier. This is not to say that they were sloth-like as in lazy, but rather using better and smarter resources to heighten efficiency.
Bibliography:
“The Frankfurt Kitchen.” 2018. MoMA | Counter Space: the Frankfurt Kitchen. Accessed April 29, 2018. https://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/counter_space/the_frankfurt_kitchen.
Grossman, Anita. “Girlkultur or Thoroughly Rationalized Female: A New Woman in Weimar Germany?” in Women in Culture and Politics: A Century of Change. Ed. Blanche Wiesen Cook, Judith Friedlander, Alice Kessler-Harris, Carroll Smith-Rosenberg. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1986.