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Luxury and Modernism
Robin Schuldenfrei
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Architektur
Beschreibung
While modernism was publicized as a fusion of technology, new materials, and rational aesthetics to improve the lives of ordinary people, it was often out of reach to the very masses it purportedly served. Luxury and Modernism shows how luxury was present in bold, literal forms in modern designs—from lavish materials and costly technologies to deluxe buildings and household objects—and in subtler ways as well, such as social milieus and modes of living. In a period of social unrest and extreme wealth disparity between the common worker and those at the helm of capitalist enterprises generating immense profits, architects envisioned modern designs providing solutions for a more equitable future. Robin Schuldenfrei exposes the disconnect between modernism's utopian discourse and its luxury objects and elite architectural commissions. Despite the movement's egalitarian rhetoric, many modern designs addressed the desires of the privileged individual. Yet as Schuldenfrei demonstrates, luxury was integral not only to how modern buildings and objects were designed, manufactured, and sold, but has contributed to modernism's appeal to this day.
This beautifully illustrated book provides a new interpretation of modern architecture and design in Germany during the heyday of the Bauhaus and the Werkbund, tracing modernism's lasting allure to its many manifestations of luxury. Schuldenfrei casts the work of legendary figures such as Peter Behrens, Walter Gropius, and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe in an entirely different light, revealing the complexities and contradictions inherent to modernism's promotion and consumption.
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Technology, Linoleum, Bourgeoisie, Lighting, Barcelona chair, Walter Gropius, Photography, Window, Modernity, Handicraft, Le Corbusier, Vestibule (architecture), Barcelona Pavilion, Cultural critic, Display window, Architecture, Modernism, Dining room, Art Nouveau, Work of art, Haus am Horn, Applied arts, Henry van de Velde, Designer, Gropius, Bathroom, Department store, Bedroom, Interior design, Frankfurt kitchen, Apartment, Josef Albers, Modern architecture, Herbert Bayer, Lucia Moholy, Porcelain, Furniture, Reproducibility, Walter Benjamin, Hermann Muthesius, New Objectivity (architecture), Travertine, Erich Mendelsohn, Floor plan, Ernst Bloch, Thonet, Cupboard, Dwelling, Gesamtkunstwerk, Electricity, Writing, Raw material, Display case, Ideology, Karel Teige, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, Marcel Breuer, Modern furniture, Subjectivity, Bauhaus, Advertising, Mass production, Peter Behrens, Ludwig Hilberseimer, Werkbund Exhibition (1914), Lilly Reich, Wallpaper, Amenity, Household, Hannes Meyer