Luxury and Modernism (eBook)

Architecture and the Object in Germany 1900-1933

Robin Schuldenfrei (Autor)

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2018
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4008-9048-4 (ISBN)

Infos

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.

Autor

Robin Schuldenfrei is the Katja and Nicolai Tangen Lecturer in Twentieth-Century Modernism at the Courtauld Institute of Art, University of London.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.6.2018
• Zusatzinfo: 74 color + 126 b/w illus.
• Verlagsort: Princeton
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Technik ► Architektur
• Schlagworte: Advertising • amenity • Apartment • Applied Arts • Architecture • Art Nouveau • Barcelona Chair • Barcelona Pavilion • Basement • Bathroom • Bauhaus • Bedroom • Biedermeier • Bourgeoisie • Bruno Taut • Building • cantilever chair • ceiling • Chaise Longue • cultural critic • cupboard • Curtain wall (architecture) • Department Store • Design • Designer • Desk • dining room • Display case • Display window • Door • Dwelling • electricity • electric stove • Erich Mendelsohn • Ernst Bloch • Ernst May • Fine Art • Floor plan • Frankfurt Kitchen • Furniture • George Grosz • Gesamtkunstwerk • Gropius • Handicraft • Hannes Meyer • Haus am Horn • Henry van de Velde • Herbert Bayer • Hermann Muthesius • Household • Ideology • income • Industrial architecture • Interior design • Josef Albers • Karel Teige • Le Corbusier • Lecture • Lighting • Lilly Reich • Linoleum • Lucia Moholy • Ludwig Hilberseimer • Ludwig Mies van der Rohe • Luxury Goods • Marcel Breuer • Mass production • Modern Architecture • Modern Furniture • modernism • Modernity • New Objectivity (architecture) • Patina • Peter Behrens • Philip Johnson • photography • Porcelain • Quantity • raw material • reproducibility • Richard Riemerschmid • Showroom • Sigfried Giedion • stairs • Storefront • Subjectivity • Technology • Thonet • travertine • Vestibule (architecture) • Wallpaper • Walter Benjamin • Walter Gropius • Wealth • Werkbund Exhibition (1914) • Werner Sombart • Wilhelm Wagenfeld • Window • work of art • Writing
• ISBN-10: 1-4008-9048-9 / 1400890489
• ISBN-13: 978-1-4008-9048-4 / 9781400890484