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“Risk and passion lie in affection, in the shared fear of embracing.”Leopoldo Alas, The Possession of Fear
Murphy
There’s a black-and-white photograph from 1920, author unknown, titled Folding Bed at the Corner of 40th Street and 5th Avenue. It captures a glimpse of a small domestic interior. On the left, a wardrobe, like a wide-open mouth, reveals several men’s suits hanging on hangers. Contradicting the disharmony of these American interiors (which Edgar Allan Poe refers to in The Philosophy of Furniture), a folding bed stands vertically behind the wardrobe, flanked by two curtains that allow the whole setup to be disguised. This is the Murphy Bed, created by William Lawrence Murphy in the 1920s—a bed that could easily be hidden with a simple turn of a knob. The photo hints at a kind of domestic furniture that is both dismissible and transportable, allowing external parts of the house to be transformed into...More
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“Risk and passion lie in affection, in the shared fear of embracing.”Leopoldo Alas, The Possession of Fear
Murphy
There’s a black-and-white photograph from 1920, author unknown, titled Folding Bed at the Corner of 40th Street and 5th Avenue. It captures a glimpse of a small domestic interior. On the left, a wardrobe, like a wide-open mouth, reveals several men’s suits hanging on hangers. Contradicting the disharmony of these American interiors (which Edgar Allan Poe refers to in The Philosophy of Furniture), a folding bed stands vertically behind the wardrobe, flanked by two curtains that allow the whole setup to be disguised. This is the Murphy Bed, created by William Lawrence Murphy in the 1920s—a bed that could easily be hidden with a simple turn of a knob. The photo hints at a kind of domestic furniture that is both dismissible and transportable, allowing external parts of the house to be transformed into...More
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