The Modern Interior

the interior. The architect’s total control, both of the pace of movement through the house, either on the ramp or the spiral st ...

apartments he designed for the Weissenhof Siedlinghad movable walls within them. Mies’s full realization of fluid space in a res ...

interior space was extended outwards into an open area containing a pool, along one side of which Mies constructed a marble wall ...

obsession with transparency to an extreme level of sophistication, combin- ing it with a strong awareness of the effects of text ...

with its ‘fusuma’ – sliding doors covered with opaque paper; its ‘shoji’ – wooden lattice sliding doors covered with paper; its ...

the abstract interior had lost its earlier social idealism and its reliance on architecture, however, and had moved into the rea ...

10 The Designed Interior Whether a home is hand- or machine-built, it is no good unless it is properly designed. George Nelson a ...

became a popular ideal as well. The mass media also brought architects and designers themselves into the public arena and the mo ...

decorating” today’, he wrote, ‘bring a mental picture of busy people running around with a pick-me-up for wilting upholstery, an ...

and above all equal to, architects. A few years later an English writer defined the interior design profession’s preoccupations ...

approach could be adopted in both spaces lay in the fact that a generation of American architect-designers – among them Charles ...

either as a domestic artefact or as one destined for an office or a recep- tion area in an office building.^9 All the furniture ...

for which they were destined. Like Henry Van de Velde and others before him, Eames created a home and studio for himself and his ...

office but also to bring the iconic work of others, both older Modernists such as Mies van de Rohe, as well as her contemporarie ...

The entrance area of the Knoll Showroom in San Francisco, 1954, designed by Florence Knoll. ...

San Francisco showroom, which contained a number of Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chairs positioned on a textured carpet around ...

ing ‘a large rubber plant... , a couple of Aalto stools and armchairs, a modern coffee table, and a few pieces of prehistoric-lo ...

Davis Gillies, also included an interior containing Aalto furniture. The caption explained that ‘its comfortable but svelte line ...

post-war movement of that language, humanized through its encounter with domesticity, back into the interior spaces of the publi ...

middle classes from the rest of society at that time. As in the usthe new Italian interior could be found both in private homes ...