mid-century
Nineteen-fifties design period
Mid-century refers to the middle of a century, typically the 1950s when speaking of the twentieth century.
The term appears most often in mid-century modern, a design style emphasizing clean lines, organic shapes, and functional simplicity: a mid-century modern sofa, mid-century aesthetics.
Usually hyphenated as an adjective, sometimes written as one word or two.
Of recent times
- EamesMidcentury furniture designer
- DanishOf Denmark
- teakTropical shipbuilding timber
- atomicOf elemental particles
furniture · sleek · minimalist · boomerang · credenza · walnut · sunburst · hairpin
Decade after WWII
- postwarAfter hostilities end
- fiftiesDecade or age range
- Cold WarProlonged East-West standoff
- atomic ageEra of harnessed fission
Eisenhower · suburbia · television · McCarthy · Korean War · space race · rock and roll · Beat Generation
Livestock-raising estate
- split-levelHouse with offset floors
- A-frameTriangular building structure
- case studyResearched particular instance
- glass wallsClear vertical room dividers
open plan · post-and-beam · carport · clerestory · flat roof · cantilever · sliding doors · picture window
modern
Of recent times
atomic · furniture · sleek · minimalist · boomerang · credenza · walnut · sunburst · hairpin · organic
1950s
Decade after WWII
Eisenhower · atomic age · suburbia · television · McCarthy · Korean War · space race · rock and roll · Beat Generation · civil rights
ranch
Livestock-raising estate
- split-levelHouse with offset floors
- A-frameTriangular building structure
- case studyResearched particular instance
glass walls · open plan · post-and-beam · carport · clerestory · flat roof · cantilever · sliding doors · picture window · Palm Springs
- aesthetic stylesminimalism, vintage, retro, bohemian, industrial
- Building Adjectivesangular, arched, columned, domed, vaulted
- decor stylesmodern, contemporary, traditional, rustic, bohemian
- furniture traitswooden, upholstered, cushioned, padded, comfortable
- home stylescolonial, craftsman, ranch, Victorian, Tudor
- Retrovintage, retro, throwback, record players, old-school
mid-centuryfin-de-siècle
Century's closing period
turn-of-the-century · Victorian · Baroque · Rococo · Art Nouveau
mid, century, middle, amid, midway, midst, midpoint, midnight, midday