nineteenth-century domesticity, and of feminine domestic consump-
tion, within the interior of the modern home. Early ideas relating to
the application of standardization to the home were visible in early
twentieth-century Germany. In his furniture and interior designs for
the new garden city of Hellerau Richard Riemerschmid developed a
number of machine-made furniture programmes – his Maschinen -
möbel progrämme sets of series, that is, of simple, wooden furniture pieces
that could be used, in combination, to create basic interior settings. All
his pieces were given numbers – a 1905 kitchen chair was described as
‘number 825 ’, for example. They were made simply and their means of
manufacture was not concealed. Screw-heads were often left visible, for
instance. A model combination living and dining room of 1906 , created
by Riemerschmid for Hellerau, contained a small table and chairs, a sofa
and a storage cupboard. Simple textiles – an embroidered runner for the
table and some patterned cushions for the sofa – were included to soften148 the space as were some reproduced images on the wall, one depicting
Workers assembling Model ‘t’ cars at the new Ford Motors’s Plant on South Western
Parkway, Louisville, Kentucky, 1925.