Carl Larsson

Here chapter pdf: https://www.bloomsburyarchitecturelibrary.com/encyclopedia-chapter?docid=b-9781474294072&tocid=b-9781474294072-chapter6&pdfid=9781474294072.ch-006.pdf

"""In the history of interior design, the kitchen is the most traditional room in the house, for it has evolved more slowly over the centuries than other spaces that are more on show. In peasant homes, it was the heart of everyday family life: this was where meals were cooked, domestic chores were done, children were tended and even where sleeping pallets were spread on the floor. In nobles’ dwellings, the kitchen was occupied by servants and later by other staff: until the nineteenth century, it is far removed from the living and entertaining areas since its smells and noises were not welcome in polite society. As the middle classes became established, it became the scene of the housewife’s activities.
This chapter relates the idea of intimacy to the space, furnishing and equipment of the kitchen from 1880 to 1940. The subject is handled chronologically, but with a narrative emphasis based on the visual sequence of the kitchen interiorscape—in other words, by interpolating historical notes and critical commentary among the images: selected highlights orchestrate the kitchen’s various interpretations accordingly.""""

This is a preview only: In this essay, the two key terms coined by Ellen Key, »celebration habits« (›festvanor‹) and »everyday beauty« (›vardagsskönhet«) – the programmatic core of the nordic life reform movement – are analysed and illustrated in various typical manifestations, such as the artists’ banquet or the celebration ritual. It also examined to what extent the nordic life reform movement with these two core terms finds an expression in painting, arts & crafts and architecture in the late 19th and early 20th century and fulfills its promise of social and cultural renewal.

It is part of an anthology edited by Sandra Rühr and Eva Wattolik that reflects from the perspective of media science on the different variations of the celebratory as well as their perception.
It includes contributions from history, literature studies, art history, theater as well as media studies and opens up interdisciplinary and multiperspective possibilities for further research.