Mid-Century Modern · Wall Paneling & Wainscoting

Interior of the Bernard Schwartz House, Two Rivers, Wisconsin (Frank Lloyd Wright)

The living room of the Bernard Schwartz House, a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian design of 1939, with a horizontal-board ceiling, clerestory windows and built-in seating and shelving.

Frank Lloyd Wright's Usonian houses, designed from the late 1930s, were meant to be affordable homes for middle-class Americans. They use brick, glass and horizontal wood boards, with built-in furniture throughout. In the Schwartz House, the warm wood ceiling and band of clerestory windows create a long, low living space, and the built-ins keep it uncluttered. The Usonian approach, warm wood and continuous built-ins, is a direct ancestor of mid-century modern interiors.

Style

Mid-Century Modern

Element

Wall Paneling & Wainscoting

Photograph

2010

Maker or designer

Nomadseifer

Source

Wikimedia Commons

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