1950's Fashion | 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...