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96 p. : ill. ; photo. ; col. ; 22 cm. Reveals the results of the challenge to fit utipian modernist principles to day-to-day living. This book dissolved the closed spaces of the traditional home, modernizing the bathrooms and kitchens, opening the interior to natural light, and providing balconies and terraces for sun-worship and sleeping in the open air. Introduction -- Art and life : house and home -- Women as creator -- The heroism of modern life -- Modernism and modernity -- Modernist ideas -- Structural rationalism -- Functionalism -- The zeitgeist -- Interpenetration and a new sense of space -- The modernist client -- The rise of modernism -- The avant-garde and their houses -- The Bauhaus -- International Modernism -- Housing the masses -- Weissenhof Siedlung -- Promoting Modernism -- The warming of modernism -- Modernism on trial -- Further reading -- Index -- Tim Benton, Victoria and Albert Museum. Architecture, Domesticc Architecture, Domesticc History 20th century Exhibition catalogs History Interior decorations Interior decorations History 20th century NA682.M63 B46 2006 728.370904 9781851774760 1851774769 pucpr 231002 20231002165130.0 eng