A Step Saving Kitchen, 1949

A 1949 US Department of Agriculture film, held by the US National Archives, on redesigning a kitchen so a cook takes fewer steps. It lays out how to arrange work centers, storage and appliances around the flow of preparing a meal.

HN shares it as the source of the kitchen work triangle and as a charming counterpart to the Frankfurt Kitchen, an early case of designing around how people actually work.

“organizing everything needed to cook a meal around a single station”