Austria: Old Kitchen Scene

On 29th January I got a postcard from Austria.

The card shows an old kitchen scene. The image has to be some years old and surely is a bit outdated, but nonetheless the kitchen looks quite modern.

I really like the stamp that was used. It honours the work of Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky. Born in 1897, Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky was one of the first women to study architecture in the Austro-Hungarian Empire and probably the first who actually worked fully as architect. She is best known for the Frankfurt Kitchen, which was designed for Ernst May's social housing project New Frankfurt and which is considered to be the forerunner of the modern fitted kitchen, but she was also a communist activist in the Austrian resistance to Nazism and worked for a few years in the Soviet Union. Died in 2000, this stamp of the architect and her famous kitchen was issued two days after her 20th death anniversary and was cancelled with a First Day Special Postmark. 

Thank You very much Anita!