Module 1.14 20th Century and Beyond

1920s

• this glamorous decade was the heyday of interior designers

• influenced by art deco and modernism, Early Hollywood, Travel (african safaris)

1930s & 1940s

• introduction of hire purchase

• there are several looks for the home - there was modernism or 'Moderne' with its lack of colour, its clean streamlined shapes and lack of ornamentation.

• Buildings looked like ocean liners with curved sun-trap windows edged with blue railings and portholes.

• Inside, the art deco style with its striking colours of red, black, and silver, its exoticism and animal prints sits happily alongside reproductions of Tudor furniture with a Moderne chair in leather and tubular steel.

• three out of four households had a radio

• influenced by modernism, Art Deco and Scandinavian design, historical styles such as Tudor, Jacobean and Georgian, Cinema

1950s

• age of consumer

• post-war boom brought massive changes in the home; it was out with the old and in with the new.

• Open-plan living was introduced, and the fitted kitchen with its brand new appliances was the housewife's domain

• Houses were smaller than pre-war ones so furniture had to stack or be light enough to move about;

• trolleys, sofa beds and ironing boards are all __ inventions.

• There are several looks to choose from: the American diner look with bubblegum colours, neon and kitsch, or the designer look with furniture and textiles

• influenced by diners, jukeboxes, surrealism

1960s

• free love, flower power and pop music

• Andy Warhol and David Hockne

• influenced by art noveau, space age, travel, cinema