UID:
kobvindex_INT0001395
Format:
160 pages
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richly illustrated (some colour), plans
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28.5 x 19.5 cm
ISBN:
9783764372811
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3764372818
Series Statement:
Living concepts ; 01
Uniform Title:
Die Küche : Lebenswelt, Nutzung, Perspektiven
Content:
"The kitchen is regaining its role as the central living space in home life. Since the 1990s the kitchen has moved into the fashion and design spotlight, and this publication now examines and reviews its significance in an architectural, cultural, social and economical context. The authors and contributors look at important developments and revolutionary kitchen concepts of the last decades including standardised kitchens and open kitchen-living spaces; they also review design basics, current trends, the changing demands posed by patch-work families or single person households. Even culinary aspects are included. This is a book which should certainly have its place in every 21st century kitchen. Our new book series 'Living concepts' presents clearly and concisely selected topics relating to aspects of the home. It is aimed at general readers as well as specialists, and edited by the ETH Wohnforum Zurich."
Note:
Klaus Spechtenhauser: Foreword -- The kitchen : terra incognita, an introduction / Johanna Rolshoven -- We should be happy that kitchens are still getting built at all / Alice Vollenweider -- On the kitchen and vulgar odors : the path to a new domestic architecture between the mid-nineteenth century and the Second World War / Michelle Corrodi -- Refrigerators, kitchen islands, and other cult objects : kitchens from the Second World War to today / Klaus Spechtenhauser -- The kitchen today. And a little bit yesterday. And tomorrow, too, of course : on kitchen styles and lifestyles / Gert Kähler -- Between progress and idling : the standard kitchen : notes on the development of Swiss kitchen norms / Christina Sonderegger -- From restrictive norms to greater freedom : kitchen planning today / Birgitte Kesselring -- Ghostly silence : the unemployed kitchen / Marion von Osten -- To table! To table? / René Ammann -- Select bibliography
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LANGUAGE NOTE: translation from the German: Die Küche : Lebenswelt, Nutzung, Perspektiven. Basel : Birkhäuser, 2005. ISSN 9783764372804
Language:
English
