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House of tomorrow, Melbourne, furniture by Grant Featherston, 1949
Click image to enlargeHouse of tomorrow,
Melbourne
,
furniture by Grant Featherston, 1949

Wolfgang Sievers
National Library of Australia

Styles of housing Australians
have dreamed of and achieved
in the twentieth century

What’s home supposed to be, anyway? Is it the flat in Sydney where I live now? That’s where my husband lives, the place we go back to after we’ve been out. It’s where we sleep every night, where we eat and bathe and talk and laugh and keep our things, where we get letters, where people call us on the phone, where we can be found if someone is looking for us.

Helen Garner, author,
‘Writing home’, Australian House and Garden, January 1998


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© Wolfgang Sievers, 1949/
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