The Kitchen of Tomorrow, Cooking Unit  © Life, 1943

Toledo, The Future of the Kitchen, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass company  © Life, 1967

Toledo, The Future of the Kitchen, Libbey-Owens-Ford Glass company  © Life, 1967

The Kitchen of Tomorrow, Ustensile Rack  © Life, 1943

Mon Oncle, 1958 © Jacques Tati

Mon Oncle, 1958 © Jacques Tati

Mon Oncle, 1958 © Jacques Tati

Frigidaire, Design for Dreaming, 1956  © General Motors

The Kitchen of Tomorrow, Cooking Unit  © Life, 1943

1925-1930  © Everett Collection Historical

Living space kitchen created for Snaidero, 1968  © Virgilio Forchiassin

Küche im Einzelhaus Gropius mit Schrank von Marcel Breuer, 1925-1926  © Walter Gropius

Spazia opuscoli 69  © Virgilio Forchiassin

Spazia opuscoli 69  © Virgilio Forchiassin

La Villa Arpel © Jacques Tati

Droog Kitchen © Dtile

Midcentury kitchen, Berlin  © Haus am Horn

Drawing kitchen  © Robert Mallet-Stevens

Villa Cavrois  © Robert Mallet-Stevens

A kitchen unit consisting of eight elements  © Margarete Schütte Lihotzky

Droog Kitchen © Dtile

Droog Kitchen © Dtile

Cubex Kitchen, 1930 © Louis-Herman de Koninck

Combi centre, circa 1963  © Joe Cesare Colombo

Mini kitchen mobile, 1963  © Joe Cesare Colombo

Vintage Hartmann Gibraltarized Cushion © Rights reserved

Katsura Rikyu (Imperial Villa)  © Toshihito Shinno and Toshitada Shinno

The artist and O-sen, 1767 - 1771  © Suzuki Harunobu, Brooklyn Museum

Edo-Tokyo Open Air Architectural Museum, Koganei-shi  © Tanaka Juuyoh

Katsura Rikyu (Imperial Villa)  © Toshihito Shinno and Toshitada Shinno

Living room, 1961 © Rights reserved

Zenko Ryokan © Rights reserved

Courtesan on the engawa, 1603-1868  © Haronubu, Suzuki

Traditional japanese house © Rights reserved