Todays kitchen designs are still influenced by the labour saving, efficient changes that first came to the fore in the 1920s and 30s, it has been suggested.This Wednesday (September 15th), the Museum of Modern Art in New York is due to open a new exhibition entitled Counter Space Design and the Modern Kitchen, which runs until March 14th next year.According to the Wall Street Journal, the starting point for the exhibition is the museums recent acquisition of a complete Frankfurt Kitchen - a design which was produced for public housing in Germany after the First World War.The focus is on the context around the Frankfurt Kitchen labour saving, time saving, the new woman, the new way of living in the late 1920s and 30s, the exhibits curator Juliet Kinchin told the newspaper.Meanwhile, Colin McAllister and Justin Ryan, hosts of HGTVs Colin Justins Home Heist, recently explained in a column for Yourhome.ca that they had combined a stainless steel kitchen sink with a traditional tap during one of their projects in order to create an effective mix of old and new.