Bathroom, the Kitchen, and the Aesthetics of Waste

by Lupton, Ellen; Miller, J. Abbott

• ISBN13: 9781568980966
• ISBN10: 1568980965
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-11-01
• Publisher: Princeton Architectural Press

Summary

Between 1890 and 1940, America's culture of consumption took its modern form: products were mass-produced, mass-distributed, and designed to be rapidly replaced by the buying public. The same period also saw the rise of the modern bathroom and kitchen as newly equipped spaces for administering bodily care The streamlined style of modern design, which served the new ideals of hygiene and the manufacturing policy of planned obsolescence, emanated from the domestic landscape of the bathroom and kitchen. The Bathroom, the Kitchen analyzes these developments with text and historical photographs, drawings, sketches, advertisements, and catalog pages.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments	iv
Foreword	v
Introduction The Process of Elimination	1	(10)
The Discipline of Consumption Housekeeping in the Twentieth Century	11	(6)
Cleanliness as Hygiene The Civilization of the Body	17	(5)
The Sanitary City A Chronology of Water, Waste, and Electrical Systems	22	(3)
The Modern Bathroom Ornament and Grime	25	(16)
The Modern Kitchen At Home in the Factory	41	(24)
Streamlining The Aesthetics of Waste	65	(6)
The Future A Renewed Aesthetics of Waste	71	(3)
Selected Bibliography	74