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Cocktail Set

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Description: Livable Modernism: Interior Decorating and Design during the Great Depression
A 1936 advertisement for Congoleum Rugs—featuring a smiling couple seated at their dinner table, the husband poised to carve their main dish of ham—captures the mixture of modernist efficiency and formal traditions that appeared in many popular images of Depression-era dining rooms (fig....
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.59-98
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00076.006
Description: A Modern World: American Design from the Yale University Art Gallery,...
American culture underwent a rapid transformation during the 1920s and 1930s, led in part by reform laws, the reassessment of social mores, the growth of urban areas, and advancements in transportation technologies. These developments helped create new patterns of living that self-consciously broke with the past and affirmed that Americans were living in a modern world. …
PublisherYale University Art Gallery
PublisherYale University Press
Related print edition pages: pp.115-143
https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00002.009
Chapter subject tags:Modernism (Art)Art, American

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