Design your kitchen versus kitchen design / Ontwerp je keuken versus keukenontwerp

This article presents two kitchen designs from the immediate post-war period - one by Swiss French architect Le Corbusier and the other by the Danish artists Asger Jorn and Erik Nyholm. These two works present a different understanding of the hegemony of design and designer versus the user. Both their notion of a proactive engagement with the user as well as the relationship of form, colour and use in their schemes reveal their respective positions in the past-war discussion of a Synthesis of the Arts in Paris.