A new debate about the private interior, its history and its future perspectives is urgent. With Home Stories. 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors the museum aims to do just that. In a captivating narrative leading visitors backwards in time, the exhibition will highlight important societal, political, urban and technical shifts that have shaped the design and the use of the Western interior over the last 100 years.
From current issues facing the domestic domain – such as the efficient use of dwindling urban space to the blurring of work-life boundaries – the journey goes on to our fascination with loft-living in the 1970s, the shift from formal to informal dwelling in the 1960s, the rise of household appliances in the 1950s and the introduction of open-space planning in the 1920s. The exhibition is organized around 20 iconic interiors by architects such as Verner Panton, Finn Juhl, Lina Bo Bardi and Assemble; artists like Andy Warhol or Cecil Beaton, as well as interior designer Elsie de Wolfe.
| Hours | Weekdays 9:30 AM - 5:30 PMWeekends 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM; Closed on Wednesday |
| Venue | Design Museum Gent |
| Type | Design Exhibition |
| Duration | 9:30 AM - 5:30 PM |
| City | Gent |
About
Design Museum Gent
Design Museum Gent sets out to raise your awareness of the great impact of design on your daily life. We demonstrate the responsibility of designers, manufacturers and consumers in this process with our extensive collection, which spans the period from the fifteenth century to the present. Design encompasses so much more than form and function. It is a reflection of a prevailing zeitgeist. The object teaches us more about culture and technology, ecology, politics, mobility or gender. As such, every object in our collection is like a multi-layered snapshot, full of fascinating stories.
