How Interior Design Trends Spread: From the Renaissance Maker to the YouTube influencer
We've always wanted to peek into other people's homes. In this episode, we trace how mass media turned having the trending paint color or most in-demand decor from something relegated to the elite to an attainable reality of the people. This delirious journey starts with how the Gutenberg press and renaissance pattern books allowed for trends to proliferate. We then journey through the 19th and early 20th century as World’s Fairs, parlor oddities and early magazines became centers of culture (hello Cold War "kitchen diplomacy"). We then enter the TV era of interior design from Lifestyles of…
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