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Interesting! What really intrigues me is how very familiar, at a very very hindbrain level, this layout is to me. If someone asked me to sketch a generic kitchen, I would certainly draw something recognisably similar. Sets me wondering how much else that fades into the scenery day-to-day in the modern world has its origin in someone's deliberate design.
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This is also known as a "galley kitchen" similar to those found in the galley of ship:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galley_(kitchen)

Correct me if I'm wrong but a galley kitchen is just a kitchen of certain dimensions(that is, long and narrow), whereas the Frankfurt kitchen is a complete layout, involving location of drawers, appliances, etc.
From the link:

>"The term galley kitchen is also used to refer to the design of household kitchen wherein the units are fitted into a continuous array with no kitchen table, allowing maximum use of a restricted space, and work with the minimum of required movement between units.

The first mass-produced galley kitchen design was known as the Frankfurt kitchen, designed by Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky."

The Frankfurt Kitchen was a type of galley kitchen.

Interesting as we have basically spent 2.5 years building a Frankfurt kitchen without the humans...
Only learned about this because of highly ranked r/DIY post from someone in Germany just the other day.
I've been trying without success to find a picture of the Stuttgart kitchen mentioned in the article. Anyone?
My house has a vintage-1959 galley kitchen, which is Taylorist along the same lines as the OP, and I have to say: it is a really efficient work space. You don't have to waste steps walking around. I (personally) prefer the galley layout to the square layout (vintage 1920) that I previously had.
I've seen these in person and the thing that always struck me is how much smaller people used to be. The heights of counters, everything.