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mind—including this exhibition--could embrace interior decoration as its close relative, if not progenitor, then the shoe of male-female collaboration would substantially be on the other foot. Domestic objects, whether exquisitely designed or carelessly manufactured, are meant to sit in a context—a room, usually—and the apartheid applied to interior decorators denies the spirit and purpose for which such objects were intended. Decorators deal all the time with structure, with architecture: walls, floors, ceilings, windows and the proportion of each, striving, as did Josef Hoffmann, Otto Wagner and Charlies Rennie Mackintosh, Left: Eva Zeisel (American, born Hungary. 1906-2011). Folding Chair. 1948-1949. Chrome-plated tubular steel and cotton. Mfr.: Hudson Fixtures, USA. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. Right: Eileen Gray (British, born Ireland. 1879-1976). Adjustable table. 1927. Chrome-plated tubular steel, sheet steel, and glass. Mfr.: Aram Designs Ltd., London. The Museum of Modern Art, New York. HYLAND