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Where Design History Lives

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Atomic Age Revisited: Why Mid-Century Modern Has Become the Defining Aesthetic of the American Home
Design History

Atomic Age Revisited: Why Mid-Century Modern Has Become the Defining Aesthetic of the American Home

More than seven decades after its emergence from post-war American optimism, mid-century modern design has secured a permanent place in the contemporary home. From authenticated Eames originals to the contested world of licensed reproductions, the movement's visual language now speaks to a new generation of design-conscious homeowners navigating questions of authenticity, affordability, and aesthetic identity.
Walls Without Rules: The Radical Interior Spaces That Rewrote American Domestic Life
Cultural History

Walls Without Rules: The Radical Interior Spaces That Rewrote American Domestic Life

Before the loft became a real estate category, it was an act of defiance. In the industrial districts of New York, Los Angeles, and Chicago, artists and bohemian communities of the 1960s and 1970s transformed raw, unfinished spaces into some of the most influential interiors in American design history — rooms that rejected every convention of the postwar domestic ideal and, in doing so, permanently altered the vocabulary of how Americans think about home.