DESIGNS FOR LIVING
HE illustrations on this page are reproductions of two drawings from Design and Living, by E. A. Plishke. This book, to which we refer at greater length in our leading article,. is described by its author as "an attempt to show that we of the 20th Century can live our ordinary everyday lives in an environment properly designed for the purpose-if only we wish to do so." But most of us can’t design our environment wisely until our minds have been aroused to some of the commonest vulgarities--affectation, ornateness, and pretence. So the author presents two interiors-one crammed with everything that vulgar display can get into it, the other simple and restrained and conveying some sense of space and air. The first :is bad design-furniture from a period 150 years past, and sham at that, intended for a house that by to-day’s standards would be a palace. The second shows how the first can be made to conform to modern standards of simplicity and good taste. Other sections of the book (which is being distributed by Whitcombe and Tombs for the Department of Internal Affairs) apply the same principles to designs for houses and plans for towns. A_ well-designed chair of to-day, the author says, has this in common with a well-planned town of 500 years agothat both are at once utilitarian and acsthetic
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New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 414, 30 May 1947, Page 7
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227DESIGNS FOR LIVING New Zealand Listener, Volume 16, Issue 414, 30 May 1947, Page 7
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