Kitchen
Gropius designed the kitchen and pantry with efficiency and function in mind. He used new materials available at this time and items ordered from nontraditional catalogs. The kitchen features a solid stainless steel sink and counter top complete with garbage disposal. The pantry contains a second smaller sink next to an automatic dishwasher. Both garbage disposals and dishwashers were appliances not generally used in 1938 kitchens. These features, combined with the steel cabinets and marble cutting board, illustrate how influential Gropius was. What we see in these two rooms has been so widely imitated that it is difficult today to imagine how revolutionary it all was in 1938.
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