The success of commercial catalogues among the population shows an extraordinary contribution of these mass communication vectors to the history of everyday life. As part of our study, we explore kitchen and dining room furniture contained in a selected corpus of retail catalogues dated between 1920 and 1960. Changes in supply, promotional strategies and the content of advertisements are telling signs of significant changes in the design of the domestic interior, but also of values and trends that are changing habits and lifestyles, including domestic work and consumption habits.