Welcome to America at Home! It’s wonderful to have you here.
There’s a lot going on. It’s quite cold, and there might be a coup, which devolves into farce every few days, then starts to get really alarming again just when you decided to take a break from panicking. It gets dark at 4:30pm. With the pandemic entering a dangerous new phase, it seems we’re inside the snow globe until springtime, at the very earliest.
I’m envisioning this newsletter as cozy and provocative place to explore the obsession that unites all my books and research projects: interiors, what they mean, and how we live in them. “America at Home” was the name of a pavilion at the 1940 World’s Fair, where sixteen designers were invited to consider the interior, giving visitors a more intimate glimpse of what the ‘world of tomorrow’ might mean for them. I’ll explore interiors in movies and TV series, real life, museums, history, and (best as I can tell) the future. Topics I’m working on include Balmoral, gossip and the Soviet Kitchen, the history and lore of dollhouse miniatures, learning about the physical world of Victorian mansions from the board game Clue, and the cinematic life of The Dakota.
Do You Take Requests?
Yes! Lay ‘em on me.
Is This Newsletter Free?
Yes. I’m envisioning it as a capsule collection of essays, and it will remain free for the rest of 2020.
Cats?
Possibly.
Please share this with anyone you think might enjoy it! The first post will hit your inbox sometime in December. See you soon.
Cheers,
Sarah
Hi sarah -I’m working on well-being and interiors and changes in our interiors and ways of using them as part of a Kingston University (London) MIRC (Modern Interiors Research Centre) project as well as my Eameses and Hollywood one -
A new Sarah Archer venture!?!? Xmas comes early