Over and beyond the actual building, Mies van der Rohe and his partner at that time, the designer and decorator Lilly Reich also saw to the interior design. The floors are made of walnut or oak and the window embrasures and radiator covers – likewise made of walnut or oak – are still preserved. Glass display cabinets and dressers (nowadays concealed) were set flush with or two-thirds of the way into the walls. A flexible wooden wall in Haus Lange allowed the dining area to be separated from the hall. The details extended to the overhead lights, the door handles and the cupboard knobs. The picture rails all along the walls demonstrate even today that the former owners, Lange and Esters, were themselves contemporary art collectors and hanged paintings in their rooms. 

Both Hermann Lange and Dr. Josef Esters were directors of Verseidag, a union of several textile companies from Krefeld. Hermann Lange was also a member of the Deutscher Werkbund. Source

(The extraordinary door is made of a tropical wood.)

Architectural elements from North Family Dwelling, New Lebanon, New York, 1840

The Shaker Retiring Room is from the North Family Dwelling in New Lebanon, New York, which dates to around 1830–40. Each of the eight principal “families” at New Lebanon had their own dwellings and workshops. The North Family Dwelling was a five-story frame building containing kitchens, dining rooms, a large meeting room and chapel, and retiring rooms like this one for the members. The room served as both a bedroom and, as proscribed by the Millennial Laws, a place to retire to “in silence, for the space of half an hour, and labor for a sense of the gospel, before attending meeting.” This room was originally shared by several people and would have had more than one bed. The clean, white plaster walls, scrubbed pine floor, and simple stained woodwork aged to a warm ocher reveal three of the most typical characteristics of Shaker design: utility, simplicity, and beauty. As in many Shaker interiors, a pegboard runs around the room to hold various objects up from the floor for day-to-day storage and to facilitate cleaning. Much of the furniture in this room came to the Museum through the collection of Faith and Edward Deming Andrews, who in the 1930s began documenting the lives, beliefs, and crafts of the Shakers.

1950 Mid Century Entenza Residence by Charles Eames 

R. Buckminster Fuller, editorial Life, 1946

Arne Jacobsen – SAS Royal Hotel –  Copenhagen – 1960. The first “designer hotel”. Room 606 is still kept as Jacobsen designed it in 1960.

Arne Jacobsen – SAS Royal Hotel –  Copenhagen – 1960

Charlotte Perriand, refuge d’ altitude “Le bivouac”, 1936

Charlotte Perriand, Nuage bookcase in the Air France London office’s library. 1957.

Front of the French Government Tourist Office in London, 1962. Designers Charlotte Perriand (nice person) and Ernő Goldfinger (not nice person, “Goldfinger was known as a humourless man given to notorious rages.” Ian Fleming named Bond villain after him) 

Karl Friedrich Schinkel, vergoldete Möbelgarnitur im Roter Salon, dem größten und festlichste n Saal im Obergeschoss von Schloss Glienicke, um 1826/27.

Entwurfszeichnung von Karl Friedrich Schinkel für das Möbelensemble in Schloss Glienicke; Staatliche Museen zu Berlin, Kupferstichkabinett