d+a | Issue 115 • Apr/May 2020

/ SPECIAL REPORT / 20 I t is time for a serious discourse on the discipline of home interior design to decide how we want to live. This is the starting point of an exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum, in the German town of Weil Am Rhein. Running from now till 23 August 2020, Home Stories. 100 Years, 20 Visionary Interiors is a retrospective on the important societal, political, urban and technical shifts impacting the Western abode. These include contemporary issues of how homes in urban areas are fast shrinking in size; to the fascination with loft-living in the 1970s; the evolution from formal to informal dwelling in the 1960s; the emergence of the use of household appliances in the 1950s; and the birth of the open-space concept in the 1920s. Additionally, it reflects the variety of AN EXHIBITION AT THE VITRA DESIGN MUSEUM EXPLORES THE ANSWER TO THIS QUESTION, WITH JUNG OFFERING A COLOURFUL PERSPECTIVE. HOW SHOULD WE LIVE AT HOME? PHOTOGRAPHY LUDGER PAFFRATH & HENRIK SCHIPPER