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 Rise of the Decorator/ History of Woman in Interior Design  1 February, 2023 During the rise of this era, two categories fell into play, the Decorators and the functionalists. The functionalists believed in form and function and strayed away from excessive decoration and furnishing while Decorators or otherwise known as "embellishers" used furnishings as a way to complete a space and design a cohesive room.  Decorators became known to be around 1900 when people need help to start furnishing their homes and buildings. Before this time it would be the architect's job to hire someone to complete the interior space with decoration, furnishings, paint, and a floor plan, thus creating the interior designer. At the beginning of interior design, there was a sense of status that came with acquiring interior designers to furnish the inside of there house, it was rare for someone who does not come from wealth to have an interior designer design the inside of their house. During the...

 Art Deco and Industrial Design 18 March 2023 The Style of Art Deco is known to be one of the most popular interior design styles today. The reason for the popularity is the combination and also the tension of two key components of interior design, functionalism, and decorators' value. Art Deco has functional elements because of its history of origin. Art Deco was introduced around the end of World War 1 and the start of World War 2 in France around that time furniture and designs that were functional were extremely popular due to the state of the world. However, Decoration and fashion were also implemented in the style due to the French influence on the style.  The image above is an Art Deco-designed living room in the 1920s. As you can see the design has characteristics of fashion and decoration. The room is shown to look luxurious and expensive. Large posters and tall furniture was used to convey a sense of fashion. The light fixture above is another key component of the Ar...

 Emergence of Modernism 3 March 2023 Modernism is one of the most well known and talked about design styles that has risen in the past 100 years. The design style became popular around 1900-1950 with architects such as Frank Lloyd Wright, Walter Gropius, Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, and many more who became house hold names for the Modernism movement.  The house pictured above was designed by Le Corbusier who is another famous modernist architect. The modernist characteristic seen throughout the design of this house is the industrial feel that the house gives off due to the geometric shapes and clean lines seen throughout the house. One of the main ideas of the modernist movement is the "rejection of the past and historical design." The word functionalism is coined by the style of modernism as well because the design aids more to the functionality of living rather than the aesthetic of the design.  The image seen above is a house designed by Mies Van der Rohe. Mies was a wel...