A history of the American interior between roughly 1940 and 1970, and it’s about interiors rather than the famous chairs. Havenhand covers the designers who shaped how rooms looked and worked — Florence Knoll, Ray Eames, Alexander Girard, Van Day Truex, Dorothy Draper — and posits 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.
Mid-Century Modern Interiors