What did the future of home look like a century ago? The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) invites Angelenos to find out with two new exhibitions exploring design as an agent of social, political and economic transformation in modern domestic life.
Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias, on view September 27, 2026 through March 14, 2027 at the Resnick Pavilion, gathers more than 260 architectural models, drawings, photographs, films, paintings, furniture and objects — from sinks to televisions. Self-cleaning kitchens, plastic houses assembled in a day and push-button appliances: over the 20th century, Americans were offered an astonishing array of domestic tomorrows, and the exhibition asks not only what futures were imagined, but who imagined them and for whom.
Embedded within it, The Kitchen and Its Discontents puts Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky’s Frankfurt Kitchen (c. 1926–30) and Charlotte Perriand’s kitchen for Le Corbusier’s Unité d’habitation (c. 1946–52) in conversation with works from LACMA’s collection, revealing the complex cultural meaning of the kitchen space. The exhibition also expands the story to the contributions of women designers, designers of color and historically marginalized communities.
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