The Modern Interior

dral’ of modernity had to strike a delicate balance between representing a post-Victorian world in which women were free to ente ...

The interior of the National Museum and Art Gallery, Edinburgh, 1861 – 8 , photographed in 2007. ...

as the division of labour which cut across the holistic process of the craftsman, were rationally conceived and organized. Inevi ...

was increasingly the case in the home, of a self-conscious interest in the aesthetic deployed inside them. Factories resembled l ...

Views from around 1913 inside Ford’s Highland Park factory show that the rationality and efficiency of the work process remained ...

processing of administrative tasks, which were, of course, no less impor- tant to local and national economies. Office work was ...

absence of bourgeois comfort. As has already been demonstrated in the very different social context of the ‘cottages’ of Newport ...

The Central Court of the Larkin Building, designed by Frank Lloyd Wright, in Buffalo, New York, 1902 – 6. ...

spaces, as a means of softening the abruptness of the shift in identity that they experienced. In the typing office of the Socie ...

advances, the work of engineers and planners, and of new rational think- ing about ways of improving productivity and efficiency ...

7 The Rational Interior Around this time the real gravitational center of living shifts to the office. Walter Benjamin^1 For man ...

of the Gesamtkunstwerk. Architecture took the lead, therefore, while the so-called ‘decorative arts’, a catch-all term which emb ...

aesthetic’. It denoted a high level of functionality and came to be seen by many asthemodern interior aesthetic of the twentieth ...

Catherine Beecher, who had first ‘made the art of housekeeping a scien- tific study’.^5 In her 1869 publication The American Wom ...

gospel is going to mean a lot to modern housekeeping, in spite of the doubts I have. Do you know I am going to work out those pr ...

were linked to a general desire at that time to grant the housewife a new professional status, to make her the equivalent of a s ...

directed and restrained, will become inevitably narrowed and weakened by it. The woman is narrowed by the home and the man is na ...

The kitchen in the Haus am Horn, designed by Benita Otte and Ernst Gebhardt, exhibited in Weimar, Germany in 1923. ...

of developments in social housing, many of them on German soil. Although the re-domestication of women that took place in that c ...

places’, one writer has explained.^17 It was beginning to become clear how a rational approach to home design could take on visu ...