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FEATURES A provocative survey of the aspirational, radical and futuristic visions of the home, from the twentieth century to the present. Richly illustrated with over 200 colour images, showcasing rare and unusual drawings, products, prototypes and interior schemes which have impacted how we live today. Featuring rarely seen material from Ettore Sottsass, Superstudio, Enzo Mari, Archigram, Dunne & Raby, OMA, Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, Joe Colombo and many more. Original essays on the home and its future by leading voices in the field, including Pier Vittorio Aureli, Adam Greenfield, Sarah Kember, Deyan Sudjic and Emilio Ambasz.

January 2019 240 x 170mm 304pp 260 colour illustrations Softcover | Worldwide rights £29.95 | $49.95 978-1-872005-42-3

Eszter Steierhoffer is Senior Curator at the Design Museum. Justin McGuirk is the chief curator at the Design Museum and the director of Future Observatory.

Home Futures: Living in Yesterday’s Tomorrow

Edited by Eszter Steierhoffer and Justin McGuirk

The ‘home of the future’ has long intrigued designers and popular culture alike. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanised home or the notion that technology might liberate us from home altogether, the domestic realm was a site of endless invention and speculation. But what happened to those visions? Are today’s smart homes the future that architects and designers once predicted, or has our idea of home proved resistant to real change? This book explores today’s home through the prism of yesterday’s imagination. Organised in six thematic sections – privacy, the smart home, compact living, self-sufficiency, nomadic lifestyles and the home as an idyllic landscape – this book proposes that we are already living in yesterday’s tomorrow, just not in the way anyone predicted.