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Description: | The Ideal Home Show was very much more the thing in the 1930s - more fashionable and trend-setting - than in its later years.
In the 1930s, Bowman's, a progressive furniture store in Camden were showing their 'unit' furniture ranges at the show. The term 'unit' is a reference to the rationalisation of furniture design, which came out of the work of design reformers and industry bodies like the Design and Industries Association in the interwar years. They were keen to promote ideals of good design and fitness for purpose, based on teachings of the Bauhaus in Germany, amongst others.
Bowmans' furniture was modernism for suburbia, however, softened around its edges for a mass market. This leaflet makes mention of the 'Finnish furniture' the shop was selling - perhaps Alvar Aalto's bent plywood designs?
(JA) | Format: | image/jpeg | Publisher: | MoDA | Rights holder: | MoDA, Museum of Domestic Design & Architecture (Middlesex University) | Subjects: | Art and Design | Temporal: | 1930 - 1940 | Source: | Museum of Domestic Design and Architecture | Identifier: | http://www.20thcenturylondon.org.uk/rser... | Language: | en-GB | Format: | image/jpeg | Go to resource |
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