American Decades
Interior Design
Room Setting for a Child's Room; Room Setting at the Design Center for Interiors
Photographs
By: AP/Wide World
Date: May 28, 1959; June 25, 1959
Source: Room Setting for a Child's Room. May 28, 1959; Room Setting at the Design Center for Interiors, New York. June 25, 1959. AP/Wide World Photos. Available online at http://www.apwideworld.com (accessed March 27, 2003).
Introduction
Interior design was, in the 1950s, a new concern for the average individual. Prior to the decade, a lack of money and supplies had limited the way most people organized their houses. During the Great Depression in the 1930s, few had the funds to worry about the organization of furniture or the coloration of rooms and during World War II (1939–1945) supply rationing restricted attempts to update homes. After the war, however, people began to...
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1950's Fashion Primary Sources
- Marlon Brando in A Streetcar Named Desire
- Suburban Homes
- "Our Architecture Is Our Portrait"
- "Frank Lloyd Wright Talks of His Art"
- What Shall I Wear? The What, Where, When, and How Much of Fashion
- "What's Ahead in New Appliances"
- Christian Dior and I
- "Pretty Way To Go"
- Interior Design
- "Patterns Spark Fall Rainwear"
- American Automobiles
- What We Wore
- Copyright Page
- Acknowledgments
