TV rooms came true. Self-cleaning kitchens didn’t. Inside LACMA’s ‘Home of the Future’

Summary by The Los Angeles Editorial Desk · Byline on the source page: Nicolas Perez, as published by LAist (KPCC / Southern California Public Radio) · October 19, 2026 · 1 min read

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The exhibit: LACMA’s new exhibit, " Home of the Future, 1925–1985: Designing Domestic Utopias," explores visions of how designers imagined technologies would transform life in American homes. Some of these predictions, like rooms centered around television sets, would come to pass while ideas li...

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