User:Apaez1/Choose an Article

Article Selection
Please list articles that you're considering for your Wikipedia assignment below. Begin to critique these articles and find relevant sources.

Option 1

 * Article title: Living Room
 * Article Evaluation:
 * We believe that the "Living Room" article would be a good topic because there isn't much information about it and it would very interesting to explore what "living rooms" mean in other parts of the world.
 * One of the most important rooms in the household, they have many different roles.
 * The living room was not always known as the “living room”. We want to research how it came to be the most important room in the house and how it got its name.
 * Sources:
 * https://www.bbc.co.uk/history/british/middle_ages/history_of_home.shtml
 * https://fella.com.my/a-history-of-the-living-room
 * https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20171221-the-evolution-of-the-modern-living-room
 * https://www.builddirect.com/blog/the-fascinating-history-of-the-living-room/
 * https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20171221-the-evolution-of-the-modern-living-room
 * https://www.builddirect.com/blog/the-fascinating-history-of-the-living-room/

Option 2

 * Article title: Memphis Group
 * Article Evaluation:
 * We believe that the "Memphis Group" article would be a good topic because of their short lived history and how their reaction to Modernism plays a role in their sudden design end.
 * To learn and research how their design concepts and philosophies impacted the design world as we know it, as well as how they chose to go against the norms of Modernism.
 * To learn and understand why they chose specific colors, materials, shapes, and forms into their designs and why the public reacted the way they did.
 * Sources:
 * https://www.hunker.com/13723610/memphis-design-history-origins
 * https://italychronicles.com/italian-design-focus-on-the-memphis-design-movement/
 * https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/21/memphis-group-ettore-sottsass-design-radical-met-breuer
 * https://italychronicles.com/italian-design-focus-on-the-memphis-design-movement/
 * https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2017/jul/21/memphis-group-ettore-sottsass-design-radical-met-breuer

Option 3

 * Article title: Dining Room
 * Article Evaluation:
 * We believe that the "Dining Room" article would be a good topic to learn the origin of its name and how in other parts of the world people use the dining room in their daily lives.
 * To learn the history and if it was once only exclusive to the royal class, if it was available for everyone, what someone had to do in order to obtain dining sets, price, location, etc.
 * Dining rooms used to only be used on special occasions.
 * To learn how the dining room evolved in different cultures.
 * To learn about the evolution of dining room furniture.
 * Sources:
 * https://www-journals-uchicago-edu.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/doi/10.1086/381642
 * https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/a-short-history-of-the-dining-room-part-1/
 * https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/a-short-history-of-the-dining-room-part-2/
 * https://brewminate.com/a-short-history-of-the-dining-room/
 * https://thenewinquiry.com/blog/a-short-history-of-the-dining-room-part-2/
 * https://brewminate.com/a-short-history-of-the-dining-room/

Option 4

 * Article title: David Nightingale Hicks
 * Article Evaluation:
 * We believe that the David Nightingale Hicks article would be a good topic because his clients were very famous people, but now, he is not well-known with the younger generation and we would like to research why.
 * David Hicks left an immense impact on the people he worked with and shared his ideas of boldness with the interior design world.
 * David Hicks has influenced today's designers to bring character into rooms and to incorporate bold colors and geometric patterns into the interiors.
 * Sources:
 * https://www-oxforddnb-com.ezproxy1.lib.asu.edu/view/10.1093/ref:odnb/9780198614128.001.0001/odnb-9780198614128-e-69509;jsessionid=B376CF7F4328131B3E935D76604C282B
 * https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/obituary-david-hicks-1153956.html
 * https://www.1stdibs.com/blogs/the-study/david-hicks/
 * https://www.onekingslane.com/live-love-home/david-hicks-designer/
 * https://www.1stdibs.com/blogs/the-study/david-hicks/
 * https://www.onekingslane.com/live-love-home/david-hicks-designer/

Option 5

 * Article title: Albert Hadley
 * Article Evaluation:
 * We believe that the Albert Hadley article would be a good topic because his clients were very famous people, but now, he is not well-known with the younger generation and we would like to research why.
 * Since Hadley was born in the 1920s, we think it would be really interesting to learn more about his design perspective and how much it has changed throughout time.
 * To research how color, shape, size, and form plays a huge impact during the design process. As well as Hadley's point of view on interior design and how we can learn from past mistakes.
 * Sources:
 * https://www.onekingslane.com/live-love-home/lessons-learned-from-albert-hadley/
 * https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/albert-hadley-article
 * https://www.lonny.com/Home+Tour/articles/gL6mSyH78nz/Albert+Hadley+Sophisticated+Apartment+Upper
 * https://couparconsulting.com/blogposts/2019/9/12/the-disciplined-modernist-albert-hadley
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/31/us/albert-hadley-interior-decorator-to-high-society-dies-at-91.html
 * https://couparconsulting.com/blogposts/2019/9/12/the-disciplined-modernist-albert-hadley
 * https://www.nytimes.com/2012/03/31/us/albert-hadley-interior-decorator-to-high-society-dies-at-91.html