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GUIDED TOUR: MoMA Counter Space: Design + Modern Kitchen exhibit
Meal machine, experimental laboratory, status symbol, domestic prison, or the creative and spiritual heart of the home? Over the course of the past century no other room has
been the focus of such intensive aesthetic and technological innovation, or as loaded with cultural significance. Kitchen design has been both a central concern of modernism and fundamental to our concept of modern life. Drawn entirely from MoMA's collection, this
exhibition explores the twentieth-century transformation of the kitchen as a barometer of changing technologies, aesthetics, and ideologies.
Counter Space, on display through March 14, 2011, explores the twentieth-century transformation of the kitchen and highlights MoMA's recent acquisition of an unusually
complete example of the iconic "Frankfurt Kitchen," designed in 192627 by the architect Grete Schütte-Lihotzky. Featured alongside the Frankfurt Kitchen is a 1968
mobile fold-out unit manufactured by the Italian company Snaidero. These two complete kitchens are complemented by a wide variety of design objects, architectural plans,
posters, archival photographs, and selected artworks, all drawn from MoMA's collection. Prominence is given to the contribution of women throughout the exhibition, not only
as the primary consumers and users of the domestic kitchen, but also as reformers, architects, designers, and as artists who have critically addressed kitchen culture and
myths.
More: http://www.moma.org/interactives/exhibitions/2010/counter_space
*The group will meet at 10:30 at the lobby information desk, where they check the group in. The group will proceed to the tour area at 10:40, and the actual tour will begin at 10:50.
Please note: Cancellations are requested no later than 48 hours before the event in order to receive a full refund. If the program is cancelled by NYWCA, your full cost, including Brown Paper Ticket fees, will be reimbursed.
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LocationMuseum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street between Fifth and Sixth Avenue
New York, NY 10019
United States
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