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Video: Vitra Design Museum Shows "Home Stories" Exhibition

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The exhibition »Home Stories. 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors «in the Vitra Design Museum shows how social, political and technical changes of the past 100 years have been reflected in our living environment.
How we live shapes our everyday life, determines our well-being and is an expression of our lifestyle. The exhibition deals with the influences that have shaped the design and use of the western interior, from current issues such as dwindling living space and the disappearance of the boundaries between work and private life, but the discovery of the loft apartment in the 1970s also the triumphal advance of a more informal living culture in the 1960s and the arrival of modern household appliances in the 1950s to the first open floor plans of the 1920s. These upheavals are illustrated by 20 style-defining interiors, including designs by well-known architects, interior designers and designers.
While social and architectural topics such as the question of affordable living space are debated lively today, there is no serious social debate about the interior of the home.
Interior reflects breaches of tradition
This is where the "Home Stories" exhibition comes in. The selected interiors show to what extent the design of living spaces is influenced by individual designer personalities, but also always by influences from art, architecture, fashion or set design.
Part of the exhibition is devoted to the radical breaks in tradition in interior design from the 1960s to the 1980s. Under the influence of postmodernity, designers began to think about the meaning and symbolism of furniture, patterns and decorations - above all the Italian designer group Memphis. Fashion designer Karl Lagerfeld, a passionate collector of Memphis designs, transformed his apartment in the early 1980s into a walk-in shrine of postmodernity, which took the trendy, quirky feeling of living to the extreme. From the 1970s, IKEA's worldwide rise also brought about a radical change in our interiors: on the one hand, IKEA, in fact, made it possible for many people to furnish modern furniture at low cost. On the other hand, this development also helpedthat furniture and furnishings are often seen only as short-lived and interchangeable consumer items. The immediate post-war period was a decisive phase when the modern avant-garde design found its way into more and more apartments. In their “House of the Future” in 1956, Peter and Alison Smithson created a futuristic interior with the latest materials, kitchen appliances and a self-cleaning bathroom. The flowing transitions between inside and outside have now become the subject of many living spaces, as illustrated by the exhibition at the Casa de Vidro (1950/51) by Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi in Sao Paulo.when the modern design language of the avant-garde found its way into more and more apartments. In their “House of the Future” in 1956, Peter and Alison Smithson created a futuristic interior with the latest materials, kitchen appliances and a self-cleaning bathroom. The flowing transitions between inside and outside have now become the subject of many living spaces, as illustrated by the exhibition at the Casa de Vidro (1950/51) by Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi in Sao Paulo.when the modern design language of the avant-garde found its way into more and more apartments. In their “House of the Future” in 1956, Peter and Alison Smithson created a futuristic interior with the latest materials, kitchen appliances and a self-cleaning bathroom. The flowing transitions between inside and outside have now become the subject of many living spaces, as illustrated by the exhibition at the Casa de Vidro (1950/51) by Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi in Sao Paulo.what the exhibition at the Casa de Vidro (1950/51) by Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi in Sao Paulo illustrates.what the exhibition at the Casa de Vidro (1950/51) by Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi in Sao Paulo illustrates.
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Home stories
100 years, 20 visionary interiors
February 8 to August 23, 2020, Vitra Design Museum, Because on the Rhine
www.design-museum.de
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