The concept of a “home” had played an important role during the early decades of Israel's establishment as a home for all the Jewish people. This study examines the “designed” home and its material culture during the 1960s and 1970s, focusing on aesthetic choices, approaches, and practices, which came to highlight the home's role as a theater for staging, creating, and mirroring identities, or a laboratory for national boundaries. It seeks to identify the conceptualization of the domestic space during fundamental decades in the history of Israel.
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