<img width="640" height="360" src="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/m-friedman-ch-podium-700x394.jpg" class="attachment-large size-large wp-post-image" alt="Marilyn Friedman wears a red suit, at a lecture during a design talk at Cooper Hewitt on Dec. 4, 2018" style="display: block; margin-bottom: 5px; clear:both;max-width: 100%;" srcset="https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/m-friedman-ch-podium-700x394.jpg 700w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/m-friedman-ch-podium-300x169.jpg 300w, https://uh8yh30l48rpize52xh0q1o6i-wpengine.netdna-ssl.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/m-friedman-ch-podium-170x96.jpg 170w" sizes="(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px" data-attachment-id="32233" data-permalink="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/2018/12/07/design-talk-making-america-modern/m-friedman-ch-podium/" data-orig-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/m-friedman-ch-podium.jpg" data-orig-size="1921,1080" data-comments-opened="1" data-image-meta="{"aperture":"0","credit":"","camera":"","caption":"","created_timestamp":"0","copyright":"","focal_length":"0","iso":"0","shutter_speed":"0","title":"","orientation":"0"}" data-image-title="m-friedman-ch-podium" data-image-description="" data-medium-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/m-friedman-ch-podium-300x169.jpg" data-large-file="https://www.cooperhewitt.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/m-friedman-ch-podium-700x394.jpg" />Marilyn Friedman discusses her new book Making America Modern: Interior Design in the 1930s.