Lilly Reich

Single-Person Apartment in The Dwelling of Our Time, German Building Exhibition, Berlin, Germany

1931

Ink on tracing paper

Not on view

In her designs for several kitchens at the 1931 German Building Exhibition in Berlin, Reich embraced the rational principles of the domestic reformers Christine Frederick and Erna Meyer. Reich’s Apartment for a Single Person featured a cooking cabinet that subsequently was put into production by Otto Kahn. When closed, it appeared to be an ordinary closet or wardrobe, but when opened it revealed a sink, shelves, two burners, drawers, counter space, and a hook on which to hang a kettle.

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Designing Modern Women 1890–1990, October 5, 2013–October 1, 2014.

Medium Ink on tracing paper
Dimensions 9 7/8 x 18 3/8" (25.1 x 46.7 cm)
Credit Lilly Reich Collection, Mies van der Rohe Archive
Object number R9.37
Department Architecture & Design

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Lilly Reich

Lilly Reich

German, 1885–1947 84 works online

In 1909 the German Werkbund, an organization dedicated to improving society by promoting the highest standards of design and manufacture, declared that women were “unequal to the demanding design tasks of architecture.

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