'A man's house is his art' - The Walker Art Center's idea house project and the marketing of domestic design, 1941-7

In 1941, the Walker Art Center of Minneapolis, Minnesota, built and exhibited Idea

House, America’s first museum-sponsored, fully functional modern exhibition house,

created to present ideas on home building in a domestic environment. The Walker

followed Idea House in 1947 with a post-war iteration of this same project, Idea

House II, which garnered national media attention and the interest of other museums.

Idea House predates by several years both the Art and Architecture Case Study