A history of the American interior between roughly 1940 and 1970, and the useful thing is that it’s about interiors rather than the famous chairs. Havenhand covers the designers who actually shaped how rooms looked and worked — Florence Knoll, Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, Van Day Truex, Dorothy Draper — and argues that interior design got treated as decoration and therefore as women’s work, which is why the men with the chair patents got the credit. Good on how open plans, modular storage, textiles, and color were sold to postwar America.
Mid-Century Modern Interiors