The Genius of Design: Designs for Living

The modernist home: a.k.a. "a machine for living in," a perfect example of form following function. But one man's dream house is another man's house of horrors. Join us as we take a look back at the 1920s and '30s, when a domestic design debate raged over how we present our homes and what our choices say about us. Set in the crisis-stricken decades between two global wars, these home battles were further fueled by culture wars between totalitarianism and freedom, capitalism and communism, utopianism and the status quo.

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