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Home of the Future, 1925-1985: Designing Domestic Utopias
Hardcover
Publisher Price: $79.95
ISBN13: 9781636811710
Publisher: Delmonico Books
Published: Oct 27 2026
Pages: 336
Language: English
Kohler toilets, Air King radios, RCA Whirlpool Miracle Kitchens--how midcentury American design and advertising sold the vision of tomorrow's home...today
Published with Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
The 60 years between 1925 and 1985 bore witness to a meteoric acceleration of technological developments, followed almost as quickly by an apathetic disillusionment as to their cost. In the late 1960s, nearly four decades of technological optimism and relentless consumerism were replaced by growing fears of an ecological apocalypse, which led to a shift in the collective vision for the future, reflected clearly in midcentury home interior innovation. Home of the Future's first three sections investigate how designers, companies and the government imagined, disseminated and sold the notion of the home of the future. The fourth and final section explains how these strategies were later rejected, but also repurposed.Also in
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