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224<br />
15 See Thirties: British Art and Design before the War (exh. cat., Arts Council with v&a, 1980),<br />
p. 267.<br />
16 See J. L. Meikle, Design in the usa (Oxford and New York, 2005).<br />
17 Ibid.<br />
18 ‘Bel Geddes’ in Fortune (July 1930), pp. 51–7, p. 53.<br />
19 J. L. Meikle, Twentieth Century Limited: Industrial Design in America, 1925–1939<br />
(Philadelphia, pa, 1979), p. 53.<br />
20 Fortune (July 1930), p. 55.<br />
21 ‘<strong>The</strong> Eastman Kodak Shop: New York City’, in <strong>The</strong> Architectural Forum (April 1931), p. 449.<br />
22 Todd and Mortimer, <strong>The</strong> New <strong>Interior</strong> Decoration, p. 179.<br />
23 Mary McCarthy, <strong>The</strong> Group (Harmondsworth, 1969 [1936]), pp. 89–90.<br />
24 K. Wilson, Livable <strong>Modern</strong>ism: <strong>Interior</strong> Decorating and Design during the Great Depression<br />
(New Haven, ct and London, 2005), p. 4.<br />
Chapter Nine: <strong>The</strong> Abstract <strong>Interior</strong><br />
1 Quoted in N. Troy, <strong>The</strong> De Stijl Environment (Cambridge, ma and London, 1983), p. 19.<br />
2 Pierre Bourdieu, Distinction: A Social Critique of the Judgement of Taste (London, 1984).<br />
3 Whistler’s own description of this exhibit is contained in an article on a website edited by the<br />
Freer Gallery of Art, http:/www.tfaoi.com/aa/4aa/4aa170.htm. (accessed 11 February 2007)]<br />
4 See N. Troy, <strong>Modern</strong>ism and the Decorative Arts in France (New Haven, ct and London, 1990).<br />
5 Troy, <strong>Modern</strong>ism and the Decorative Arts in France, pp. 85–90. Troy’s argument represented a<br />
fundamental revision to her statement made in her earlier book, <strong>The</strong> De Stijl Environment,<br />
that the Maison Cubiste was a ‘superficial stylization’.<br />
6 Troy, <strong>The</strong> De Stijl Environment, p. 6.<br />
7 Ibid., p. 62.<br />
8 Ibid., p. 19.<br />
9 Ibid., p. 169.<br />
10 Ibid., p. 176.<br />
11 Information gathered on a visit to the Schroeder house on 24 March 2006.<br />
12 <strong>The</strong> relationship of the modern interior aesthetic and domesticity was addressed by Tim<br />
Benton in <strong>The</strong> <strong>Modern</strong>ist Home (London, 2006), written to coincide with the <strong>Modern</strong>ism:<br />
Designing a New World, 1914–1939 exhibition held at London’s Victoria and Albert Museum<br />
in the same year. Describing Le Corbusier’s famous Villa Savoye, built between 1928 and<br />
1931, one of the icons of architectural <strong>Modern</strong>ism, Benton explained, ‘Even when it was<br />
occupied by the Savoye family, the few items of furniture could not make this luminous<br />
space “home.” As in a Palladian villa, you had to appreciate the architectural values of space<br />
and light, colour and texture to find satisfaction in a house like this.’ He continued: ‘Perhaps<br />
the key to understanding the <strong>Modern</strong>ist house is that it was not designed for just anyone.<br />
This was an art movement, intended for those who could understand and appreciate it.’<br />
13 Tim Benton’s view that buildings such as the Villa Savoye were not easy to live in had<br />
already been poignantly expressed by Alice T. Friedman in her book Women and the<br />
Making of the <strong>Modern</strong> House: A Social and Architectural History (New York, 1998).<br />
14 Friedman, Women and the Making of the <strong>Modern</strong> House, p. 128.<br />
15 See C. Lange, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich: Furniture and <strong>Interior</strong>s (Krefeld,<br />
2006), p. 51.<br />
16 Lange, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Lilly Reich.<br />
17 Information taken from a booklet edited by Peter Noever, entitled Schindler by mak