The Modern Interior

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An advocate’s consulting room designed by Walter Gropius, 1912.
gentleman’s club. Also, as we have seen, the early work of Eileen Gray,
who became best known for the Modernist interiors she created for her
own home, E1027, in Roquebrunne, France, between 1926 and 1929,
comprised sumptuous interiors which acted as containers for her luxurious
and highly decorated lacquered artefacts. 12
However hard those Modernists, among others, sought to reject it
in their later careers, so deeply rooted was decoration’s relationship with
‘inside spaces’ that, by the twentieth century, it had become a defining