Using a tantalizing sprawl of design objects, artifacts and artworks,this exhibition places the modern kitchen in a broad historical context...Counter Space sprints with dazzling speed and pinpoint precision across an amazing amount of social and aesthetic history,and shows how these histories are connected.

The Kitchen,more than any other room in the home, has been radically altered bv the technological, social, and aesthetic revolutions of the twentieth century. Oounser Space:Design and The Modern Kitchen examines the transformation of this uniquely evocative and culturally resonant site, from the rational New Kitchen of the early twentieth century to the fruGality of wartime, postwar domestic dreams, and contemporary artist c statements.A vivid array of design objects, architecture,graphic design, and artworks from the collection of The Museum of Modern Art illustrates this lively volume, accompanied by an introduction and short essays by curators Juliet Kinchin and Aidan O'Connor.

FOREWORD

Toward the Modern Kitchen

The New Kitchen

The Frankfurt Kitchen

Visions of Plenty

Kitchen Sink Dramas

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

TRUSTEES OF THE MUSEUM OF MODERN ART