Our homes are an expression of the way we live, they shape our everyday routines and fundamentally affect our well-being. This has been proven to be true more than ever in the last year. Our home has become a place of refuge – somewhat against our will for some. Ambitious aesthetics contrast with practical considerations. How can we reconcile working and living? How can schoolchildren study at home? How can we ensure privacy when space is limited?

This sumptuous range of exhibits reveals interior design as a discipline full of surprises and variety. Throughout the four parts of the exhibition visitors go back and forth between standardisation, functionalism, and formal reduction on the one hand to individualisation and ornamentation on the other. An overview that raises a key question in our modern society: how do we want to live?