Frankfurt kitchen

The Frankfurt kitchen (German: Frankfurter Küche) is a compact, standardized, built‑in kitchen designed in 1926 by Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky for New Frankfurt, Ernst May's social housing project. It is considered an important point in domestic architecture and the forerunner of modern fitted kitchens. It was the first kitchen in history built after a unified concept: low-cost design that would enable efficient work.

Some 10,000 units were built in the late 1920s in Frankfurt, Germany. In 1930, the USSR government asked May to lead a "building brigade" and implement the Frankfurt model when planning new industrial towns in the Soviet Union.

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