There's nothing that disrupts a beautiful kitchen quite like a dish rack piled high with plates. It's a real eyesore that ruins a tidy, clutter-free sink area, making the space trickier to navigate.

In 1926, Margarete Schutte-Lihotzky designed a kitchen for public housing complexes in Frankfurt. With gunmetal gray cabinets reminiscent of a laboratory, the Frankfurt Kitchen looks drab by today’s ...