Tautinio stiliaus stereotipai tarpukario Lietuvos interjeruose
Stereotypes of national style in the interiors of the interwar period

Summary/Abstract: The article analyses private and public (premises of women's organizations, restaurants, etc.) national-style interiors. These are premises previously considered as unimportant; therefore they did not attract the attention of the researchers of the interwar period. The interiors of the salon of the Lithuanian Women's Council (1933) and the Lithuanian Women's Club (1937) in Kaunas are re-viewed as well as the guest room decorated in folk-style that existed in the interwar period at the Kaunas railway station. Facts are given about the interior of a folk-style chapel, which was intended to be exhibited at the World Exhibition in Paris in 1937, about fragments of dining and sitting rooms. Even stranger manifestations of national style are found: folk-style tents of scouts at the national camps, the Hall of Three Dukes in the Metropolis restaurant. Private folk-style interiors were scarcer, limited to ethnographical accents (cushions, serviettes, rugs) in apartments.Conclusions are made that predominantly public interiors of ideological purpose were designed in the national style. The national interiors under review are related to the Neoromantic movement in Lithuania of the inter-war period, which brought back from oblivion Lithuanian folk art, encouraged to create professional pieces of art having ethnographical features. The movement of national romanticism played an important role in the development of national consciousness, but it also spread out many national-style stereotypes attributable to mass culture, which are deeply rooted even nowadays.

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