Moodne kodu : lugemik kodu korraldajaile (Modern home : Chrestomathy for home organizer)

Good condition; Frayed cover edges, creases across cover corners, restored bottom right corner of front cover (minor piece was broken off), spine shows occasional horizontal creases, some light stains and fingerprints on the back cover.

In the 1930s interior design began to gain significant attention in Estonia. Following trends of the time in present book architect and art critic Hanno Kompus gives an overview of modern home furnishing combining foreign and native trends, theoretical base and practical examples, text and illustrations. Kompus became a flag-bearer for modernisn in Estonian architecture. A consistent supporter of the home interior design reform in the book he denied outmoded German originated pseudo luxury, bulked furniture, crowded with furniture rooms. New time, new state and its people need a new home. As the best home design author suggests Vienna School interior design experience combining warmth and charming romance of English home with radical modernism, lightness of form and attention to details. Also Kompus considers functionalism as a trend of the time calling it modern dynamism. Besides home design book's separate chapter dedicated to garden decoration. Book includes abundance of illustrations: room's design drawings, interior plans, furniture arrangement schemes.