TY  - BOOK
AU  - Benton, Tim,
ED  - Victoria and Albert Museum
TI  - The modernist home
SN  - 9781851774760
AV  - NA682.M63 B46 2006
U1  - 728.370904 22
PY  - 2006///
CY  - V & A Publications
PB  - London , 
KW  - Architecture, Domesticc
KW  - History
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Exhibition catalogs
KW  - Interior decorations
N1  - 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 --
N2  - 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
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