# 173. From William Morris to Bauhaus to Midcentury Modern -- Robin Schuldenfrei

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Podcast: [Everyday Anarchism](https://stenobird.com/podcast/everyday-anarchism-4260069)
Published: 2025-12-10T09:00:00+00:00
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Robin Schuldenfrei rejoins me to talk more Bauhaus! In this episode, we discuss her book Luxury and Modernism , covering the complexities of the Bauhaus, which had a leftwing ethos but produced luxury objects, and made them by hand to appear machine made. Robin talks us through how the contradiction between luxury and egalitarianism ran from Morris's arts and crafts movement to the Bauhaus, and modernism only became a truly "everyday" part of life during the colossal expansion of middle-class wealth in the midcentury, as celebrated by Life magazine and recreated in the show Mad Men 

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