Domestic spaces designed by Karl Lagerfeld, Lina Bo Bardi and Finn Juhl appear in the Home Stories: 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum, which looks into the history of residential interiors.
The Vitra Design Museum exhibition sets out to stimulate conversations about the private residence ? a space which the museum's director, Mateo Kries, and assistant curator, Anna-Mea Hoffman, think has unfairly been omitted from "serious discourse".
The exhibition's first room has a model of a micro-apartment designed by architecture studio Elii
"With architecture, there's a mass of magazines, zines, blogs and everything ? and in interiors, there's nearly nothing," Kries told Dezeen.
"I think there's several reasons: one is probably that architects do houses, designers do objects, but the people that do interiors are sometimes architects or designers ? and then they see it at the periphery of their main work." "Domestic interiors are also just simply not as accessible ? architecture can be judged by everyone," added Hoffman.
A drawing of Assemble's Granby Four Streets project is included in the exhibition
Hoffman and lead curator Jochen Eisenbrand decided to base the exhibition around 20 exceptional interiors that they felt would provide a comprehensive overview of the history of western domestic design.
The interiors are represented by a selection of furniture pieces, drawings, short films or models, and hav...