The Modern Interior

wooden plate holder fixed to the base of the glazed wall cupboards. Schütte-Lihotzky’s small ‘laboratory’ kitchen transformed Fr ...

fronts were a deep blue (although even this could be justified functionally as it was a colour which was believed to repel flies ...

Germany was not the only European country to take ideas developed in the public arena into the private domestic arena, however. ...

especially, as has already been noted, his design for the Pavillon de l’Esprit Nouveau, created for the 1925 Paris exhibition. A ...

been influenced by the reclining chairs used by pulmonary tuberculosis patients during their two-hour daily exposure to fresh ai ...

ceilings to add a level of restfulness when patients were lying down.^25 The cupboards in Aalto’s sanatorium were all wall-mount ...

minded people could meet to spend their leisure time together. As interior spaces they were frequently designed in the classical ...

that time, governed consumption decisions. In spite of that volte-face on the part of one of the most important pioneers of the ...

8 The Mass-produced Interior The lack of standards in the design of apartments is also a hindrance for the rationalizing of the ...

nineteenth-century domesticity, and of feminine domestic consump- tion, within the interior of the modern home. Early ideas rela ...

Leonardo da Vinci’s Mona Lisa and another a mountain scene. Bruno Paul worked in a similar way at that time, developing what he ...

about the interior through the inter-war years and beyond, Muthesius’s view proved to be the more influential. The issue of stan ...

the unique’, and what he called ‘models in the proper sense of the word’, interiors, that is, which contained items that were, t ...

settlements alone’, one writer has explained. As we have seen Lihotsky took her inspiration from ship’s galleys and railroad din ...

of materiality to otherwise abstract Modernist settings but the skeletal forms of the furniture items that were included prevent ...

saw the furniture items he included as aesthetically neutral tools, passive pieces of ‘equipment’ rather than as elements within ...

subsequently emulated by many other Modernist architects, from Mies van der Rohe to Charles Eames. Over the next few years Breue ...

The dining room in an apartment, designed by Marcel Breuer for Erwin Piscator, Berlin, photographed by Cami Stone, 1926. Mariann ...

Lichtblau; a baker’s shop in Stockholm by Eskil Sundahl; and a shoe shop by Jock D. Peters in Los Angeles. In private residences ...

created for the apartment building he designed in Lawn Road, London consisted of a bed-sitting room and a small kitchenette, and ...