“How Should We Live? Propositions for the Modern Interior” will be on view at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, from October 1, 2016, through April 23, 2017. The exhibition examines a broad variety of environments — domestic interiors, exhibition displays, and retail spaces — with the goal of exploring the complex collaborative partnerships, materials, and processes that have shaped the modernist interior.It focuses on specific interior spaces from 1920 to 1950. Bringing together acquisitions from the museum’s Department of Architecture and Design of work by major women architect-designers, the exhibition looks at several designers’ own living spaces and at frequently neglected areas in the field of design, including textile furnishings, wallpapers, kitchens, temporary exhibitions, and promotional displays. Noted architect-designers to be featured in the exhibition include Lilly Reich and Mies van der Rohe, Grete Lihotzky and Ernst May, Eileen Gray and Jean Badovici, Aino and Alvar Aalto, Charles and Ray Eames, Florence Knoll and Herbert Matter, and Charlotte Perriand and Le Corbusier.The exhibition has been divided into three chronological categories and brings together over 200 objects in total, but highlights a number of large-scale interiors.Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek of the exhibition
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