| dc.description.abstract | The kitchen is the domestic dependency that has most evolved throughout the 20th century. It has ceased to be a dirty space-therefore relegated within the house planning-and turned into a competitor to the living room as an area of farnily sociability, thus conditioning the household structure. Since the end of the 19th century, the kitchen has been tumed into a privileged room for hygiene in which the housewife has "reigned". She has transformed it into a prominent dependency, once the domestic service has gradually disappeared. Consequently, it has been moved to a front position, close to the dining room. In addition to this shift, a radical change has operated in the furnishing of this space, which has been endowed with specialised furniture and equipment and, in turn, models have emerged which have perpetuated its relevance until today. The kitchen has also become an area in which the status of the farnily can be shown and it has ceased to be a room that should be hidden to become a part of the house that must be exhibited.; La cocina es la estancia doméstica que más ha evolucionado a lo largo del siglo XX, pasando de espacio sucio -y por lo tanto relegado en el plano de la casa- a rival de la sala de estar como territorio de la sociabilidad familiar, y condicionando la composición de la vivienda. Se convierte desde finales del siglo XIX en un lugar privilegiado para la higiene en el que reina, una ama de casa que, una vez va desapareciendo el servicio doméstico, la transforma en una estancia principal; trasladándose en consecuencia a la fachada y cercana al comedor. A esta migración se sumaría un cambio radical en el acondicionamiento de la pieza, que pasará a contar con mobiliario y equipamiento especializado, surgiendo entonces modelos que perpetuarán su vigencia hasta la actualidad. Pasará también a ser un escenario en el que exhibir el estatus de la familia, pasando de ser algo que esconder a una posesión que mostrar. | |
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