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Vienna and the new Wohnkultur, 1918-1938
While the domestic sphere might seem tangential to the dire political situation and humanitarian crises of interwar Europe, it was nevertheless at the forefront of debates about cultural identity and economic policy in the Viennese press, culture, and arts. This book explores why and how the Viennese design landscape was set apart - aesthetically and theoretically - from other European explorations of modern design. Jackson-Beckett examines interior design exhibitions, press, and debates about modern living in interwar Vienna, an overlooked area of modern European architecture and design history, arguing for a reconsideration of the contours of European modernism. The text analyses varied interpretations of modern domestic culture (Wohnkultur) in Vienna, and explores why these interpretations were distinct from other strands of European modernism.
Cover -- Vienna and the New Wohnkultur, 1918-1938 -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Chronology of Exhibitions -- A Note on Currency -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Vienna's Interwar Wohnkultur -- 1: Einfacher Hausrat: Designs for Simple Dwelling in Postwar Vienna -- The Ruptures of 1918 -- Red Vienna and the New Wohnkultur -- The Role of the Austrian Museum of Art and Industry -- Simple Household Goods -- 2: Die neuzeitliche Wohnung: The Modern Dwelling in 1920s Vienna -- A New Way Forward? -- How Should I Furnish My Apartment?
Ernst Lichtblau's Contemporary Apartment in Wien und die Wiener (1927) -- Die neuzeitliche Wohnung: Spatial Art and the Apartment, 1928-1931 -- The Modern Rental Apartment, 1930-1931 -- The Rental Apartment: A Cultural Question -- 3: Wiener Raumkünstler: Spatial Art and Spatial Science -- Wiener Raumkünstler (1929-1930): New Viennese Living -- Viennese Spatial Art -- Talmi-Wohnlichkeit: Imagining the Modern Dwelling -- User Experience: The Modern Home Is Not a Work of Art -- Franz Löwitsch and Scientific Approaches to User Experience -- Raumkunst for the People -- Wiener Werkbundsiedlung
4: Der gute, billige Gegenstand: Objects of "Good Design" in Interwar Vienna -- BEST and the Austrian Association for Housing Reform, 1929-1931 -- Paradigm Shift over Product Placement -- BEST's Educational Program for Manufacturers -- "The Good, Inexpensive Object": The Question of Good Design -- Good Design at What Cost? -- Responses to the Exhibition -- Comparisons with Germany: Frankfurt, Stuttgart, and Munich -- Class and Domestic Culture -- Eugenics and Modern Dwelling -- Dämonie der Dinge: What Is "Bad Design"? -- Conclusions
5: Das befreite Handwerk: Vienna's New Wohnkultur under Austrofascism -- The Liberated Handcraft -- "Steel has never replaced wood here": The 1936 Hagenbund Exhibition -- Neues Leben: Modern Wohnkultur under Austrofascism -- Epilogue: Reformations of Viennese Wohnkultur and the Mid-Century Modern Home -- "Simple" Living as Commodity -- Kunstpolitik for a New Austria, or "Gemütlichkeit in Turmoil"? -- Interwar Origins of "Good Design" -- Relevance Today: User Experience Before UX -- The Roots of Eclectic Living -- Wohnen morgen/Dwelling Tomorrow -- APPENDIX: Key Individuals and Firms
Cultural Critics, Art Historians, Publishers -- Architects and Designers -- Firms (Years Active) -- Institutions and Organizations -- Royal Imperial Austrian Museum of Art and Industry/Austrian Museum of Art and Industry, Directors of Interest (Years Active as Museum Leadership) -- Archives and Collections -- Notes -- Notes to Introduction -- Notes to Chapter 1 -- Notes to Chapter 2 -- Notes to Chapter 3 -- Notes to Chapter 4 -- Notes to Chapter 5 -- Notes to Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Vienna, Austria, modernism, exhibition, design, interior, housing, domesticity, furniture, decorative arts
New York : Oxford University Press, [2024]