I would say it happens after the Second World War. Lee Glazer in The Peacock Room at Freer | Sackler Gallery (Photo courtesy: Smithsonian Institution) LG: In terms of going from this important distinct space in the house to becoming. Sally Swift: Do you have an idea of when dining rooms started to change their power? The dining room was a kind of private space that was also quasi-public it was a space where you would invite people outside of your domestic circle in.
Part of the reason has to do with the advent of consumer culture and the rise of the middle class, along with an increasing division between public and private space. The dining room comes into its own in the 19th century. Lee Glazer: The Victorian period was the apogee of the dining room as a domestic space. The room is famous for its beauty and art but also for its story of betrayal, obsession, and a feud that two men took to their deathbeds. They also toured one of the world’s most famous dining rooms, The Peacock Room. Managing producer Sally Swift talked with Lee Glazer, Curator of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution, about the history and function of the dining room. But at their height, during the Victorian era in Europe and America, dining rooms were the power center of the home it was one of the only spaces in your house that you allowed people to see. For some people, it’s more of a rec room or storage area, a place where your nicest furniture gathers dust. As odd as it sounds, a place where we don’t seem to be eating a lot these days is the dining room.
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