The New Apartment

A commissioned film for Schweizerischer Werkbund SWB Die neue Wohnung was produced for the Basel architectural and interior design exhibition WOBA to demonstrate innovative aspects of modern architecture and highlight their differences from the events highly conservative approach Despite its ad campaign roots Richters touch is not absent The surviving version aimed at a bourgeois Swiss public presents decluttered functional architecture and decor as superior to the traditional and luxurious ancient ways of living