Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias — LACMA, Los Angeles, 27 September 2026 – 14 March 2027

Between the mechanised kitchens of the 1920s and the “smart home” concepts of the 1980s, Americans were sold a new version of domestic life roughly once a decade. Home of the Future, 1925–1985 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art asks how the American home of tomorrow was imagined, packaged and sold — by whom, and for whom — and, just as pointedly, who was left out of that future and who imagined radical alternatives to it.

The exhibition fills the Resnick Pavilion with architectural models, drawings, photographs and films, and with the objects themselves: sinks, television sets and the household machines that were meant to abolish housework. The design press reports more than 260 objects and images, organised by Wendy Kaplan, head of LACMA’s department of Decorative Arts and Design. The six decades run from the streamlined Art Deco interiors of the inter-war years, through the post-war suburb and the all-electric house, to the first visions of a wired home.

The show is organised by LACMA with major funding from Getty, the Attanasio family, the David Bohnett Foundation, Martha and Bruce Karsh, Kohler and the WHH Foundation, among others.

Practical details

• Dates: 27 September 2026 – 14 March 2027
• Where: Resnick Pavilion, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90036, United States
• Organised by: Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Admission: tickets at lacma.org/gettickets

Cultural Heritage Online lists this exhibition for readers who follow Art Deco and the modern movement in design. The “home of the future” of 1925 is the Art Deco interior; what came after it is the subject of this show.