mid-century modern
Fifties design style
Mid-century modern is a design style from roughly 1945 to 1970, characterized by clean lines, organic curves, and functional simplicity.
The aesthetic appears in furniture, architecture, and graphic design: a mid-century modern credenza, the mid-century modern homes of Palm Springs.
Hallmarks include tapered legs, warm wood tones, and bold geometric forms.
The style has experienced revival as vintage pieces command high prices and new reproductions flood the market.
- plywoodEngineered layered wood panels
- clean linesUnadorned, distinct boundaries
- flat roofsLevel building covers
- open floor plansConnected rooms, no dividers
- split levelHome with offset stories
credenza · minimalism · Eames chair · atomic age · fiberglass · organic forms · sunken living room · chrome accents · geometric shapes · functionality · suburban expansion · post-and-beam · glass panels · concrete blocks · atriums · Frank Lloyd Wright · stainless steel · teak
- dwellingshouse, home, apartment, cabin, cottage
- American Architecturecolonial, Craftsman, bungalow, ranch house, Cape Cod
- art stylesimpressionism, surrealism, cubism, realism, pop art
- 70s decoravocado green, burnt orange, harvest gold, shag carpet, shag rug
- American housesranch, bungalow, colonial, Cape Cod, farmhouse
- architecture stylesart deco, Art Nouveau, minimalism, Bauhaus, brutalism
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Of a prim era
Baroque · Edwardian · Rococo · Gothic Revival · Art Nouveau
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Elaborately decorated
fussy · baroque · rococo · maximalist · embellished
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Adherence to inherited customs
historicism · anti-modernism · Arts and Crafts movement · handcrafted · artisanal
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