Designer Style: Home Decorating in the 1950s

Dates: 11.11.2008 to 6.9.2009. In the years after the Second World War, Britain experienced a new sense of optimism about the future. Following the Festival of Britain, there was an emphasis on good design for all aspects of home furnishing. Manufacturers increasingly employed artists to design textiles and wallpapers, and used their names as a selling point. Consumers welcomed the new brighter colours and fresh approach to pattern, seeing it as a newly optimistic approach to home decorating. This exhibition draws on MoDAs own collections to show a wide range of wallpapers and textiles, many of which were designed by well-known artists and designers of the period, including Lucienne Day, Graham Sutherland, Cawthra Mulock and Jacqueline Groag. These designers exploited the potential of new screen printing techniques to create wallpapers and textiles which were more fluid, abstract and painterly than had been possible before.

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