The Modern Interior

parts went one step further by designing cars and subsequently emulat- ing the streamlined aesthetic they developed for them in ...

remained the enhancement of the bed’s desirability. Drawing on his earlier experiences in theatre design and shop window dressin ...

The interior of the Eastman Kodak Shop designed by Walter Dorwin Teague, New York, 1931. ...

Metropolitan Museum of Art, the aesthetic of streamlining was applied both to the contents of the interior and to its frame. The ...

Dreyfuss’s 20 th Century Limited model for New York Central both went into production also. The designers in question were equal ...

including the main hall and the state room, for the Panama Railways Steamship Company’s liner, the ssPanama. His spaces exuded a ...

with some of the progressive American furniture mass manufacturers of the day – the Kroehler Company, Herman Miller, and Conant ...

of Vassar graduates living in inter-war New York, Kay, one of the main characters, was among those for whom the new, compact fur ...

9 The Abstract Interior We are in need of a new interior. Theo van Doesburg^1 As well as allying itself with the twin forces of ...

within it as items of equipment, rather than as providers of comfort and pleasure. Above all, as we have also seen, Le Corbusier ...

tion at London’s Fine Art Society, displayed in a setting that contained ‘yellow velvet curtains – pale yellow matting – yellow ...

desire to sever art’s links with lived reality, and to lift it to a level above that of fashionable taste and the commercial sys ...

on display within them. Projects he worked on included a stand for a celluloid manufacturer at the Utrecht Annual Industrial Fai ...

agenda. Although they began from completely different starting points, with very different agendas, like the American material f ...

strong and appropriately modern frame for the students living within it, for example. The ten rooms, created by van Doesburg tog ...

A facade of the house designed by Gerrit Rietveld for Mrs Truus-Schroeder, Utrecht, 1924. ...

about colour and space at their most sophisticated. In that house Rietveld developed a number of innovative interior strategies ...

rather arduous work required to transform the house at different times of the day manageable.) Inasmuch as it was made up of dis ...

in the kitchen. Dark-coloured rectangles were painted around the handles of the white cupboard doors to prevent dirty finger-mar ...

The highly rarefied and individualistic climate of De Stijl was further developed through work undertaken at the Bauhaus in Germ ...