Jul 05

A Brief History of Kitchen Design, Part 7: Post-war Poggenpohl’s First Unit Kitchen

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By 1950 war was in the rearview mirror, things were getting back on track, and Germany held its second annual Internationale MobelMesse Furniture Fair in Cologne (yep, the IMM Furniture Fair of today). At the Fair, nearly 60 years after Friedemir Poggenpohl started up his cabinet shop, the company he’d left behind pulled the wraps off of the Form 1000.

This was the world’s first unit kitchen ready to roll out of manufactories. Poggenpohl’s interconnected cabinets were refined even further to provide a clean, monolithic appearance, as seen above.

The countertops flowed around a 90-degree bend that hugged the wall and provided tons of space while neatly integrating the sinks.

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