Includes bibliographical references (pages 242-244) and index.
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The legacy of the nineteenth century / Clive Wainwright -- The myth of function / Tim Benton -- The struggles within French furniture, 1900-1930 / Paul Greenhalgh -- The cultural politics of the German modernist interior / Martin Gaughan -- Building utopia : pioneer modernism on the American West coast / Wendy Kaplan -- 'Design in everyday things' : promoting modernism in Britain, 1912-1944 / Julian Holder -- Henri Van de Velde and the struggle of Belgian modernism between the wars / Mimi Wilms -- Swedish grace ... or the acceptable face of modernism? / Gillian Naylor -- 'A home for everybody?' : design, ideology and the culture of the home in Italy, 1945-1972 / Penny Sparke -- Radical modernism in contemporary Spanish design / Guy Julier.