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The Cooked Kitchen

A Poetical Analysis

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  • Design theory based on the examples of 40 kitchen appliances
  • Richly illustrated volume
  • Features the “We empty out the kitchen” EOOS kitchen manifest poster
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Table of contents (41 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages 1-8

About this book

8 The Cooked Kitchen Images, Rituals, Myths Preface 9 The Wiener Schnitzel in the Rorschach Test 10 The Cooked Kitchen Images, Rituals, Myths 11 1 1 Plachutta/Wagner (1993: 306 f ) 2 2 Leitner (2006: 62 f ) 12 The Cooked Kitchen 3 3 Cf. Frazer (1993: 704) 4 4 Cf. Ruhm (undated: 248 f ) 5 5 Cf. Rorschach (1921/ 1998: 15) 6 6 Ibid., p. 23 7 7 Cf. Gombrich (1959/ 1987: 80 f f ) 8 8 Ibid. Images, Rituals, Myths 13 Karl Friedrich von Rumohr 9 14 The Cooked Kitchen Dough as Primal Form Images, Rituals, Myths 15 9 Rumohr (1822/1993: 95) 16 The Cooked Kitchen 10 10 The ?lm and cultural theorist Peter Kubelka recently republished this book (2006). In his int- duction he juxtaposes the cookbook with books by Rumohr, Brillat-Savarin and Pellegrino Artusi that were all written by philosophical diners. Images, Rituals, Myths 17 The Bough as the First Fork 18 The Cooked Kitchen Ludwig Wittgenstein 11 11 (Wittgenstein 1953/ 2004: 166) Images, Rituals, Myths 19 The Devil’s Fork 12 The story about carving is taken from Wühr’s book (1961: 27ff ). The book Altes Essbesteck (Old Cutlery) certainly does not always take a scienti?c 12 approach. But since we are not interested in scienti?c proofs but in myths, this book serves our purposes very well. 13 On this subject see Freedberg (1991) and Belting (1996). 14 Rudofsky (1987: 110), in his polemic, often puts

About the authors

The design studio EOOS was founded in Vienna in 1995 by Martin Bergmann, Gernot Bohmann and Harald Gründl and is currently active in three areas of design: flagship stores, furniture/products, and basic research.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Cooked Kitchen

  • Book Subtitle: A Poetical Analysis

  • Editors: EOOS

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-77642-1

  • Publisher: Springer Vienna

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag Vienna 2008

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: 168

  • Number of Illustrations: 44 b/w illustrations

  • Topics: Design, general