A valuable resource for design professionals, historians, and
enthusiasts, this book chronicles the development of modern
interior design in the United States in the 1930s. With detailed
descriptions and more than 200 archival images, design historian
Marilyn F. Friedman presents more than 100 interiors by 50
designers and architects, including work by design luminaries
Donald Deskey, Paul T. Frankl, Cedric Gibbons, William Lescaze,
Tommi Parzinger, Eugene Schoen, Walter Dorwin Teague, Joseph Urban,
and Kem Weber. Friedman also draws attention to lesser known male
and female designers, including Joseph Aronson, Virginia Conner,
Freda Diamond, Robert Heller, and Eleanor Le Maire. Interiors
include private commissions, model homes, and exhibition displays
that spanned the economic spectrum, from those created for wealthy
patrons, such as Walter Annenberg and Abby Rockefeller Milton, to
those designed with affordability in mind. The designers of the
1930s had a determination to forge a contemporary style, rejecting
the revivalism that had defined American design during the
nineteenth century. They drew their inspiration from diverse
sources, such as Art Deco, the Bauhaus, the Viennese Secession,
Shintoism, and streamlining, and they embraced new concepts in
construction, materials, and style. Over the course of the decade
they developed a framework for modern interior design that was
faithful to core principles of simplicity, practicality and
comfort, a conceptual framework that continues to define American
modern interior design today.
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