The 21st Century Obsession with Mid-Century Design

The 21st Century has a strange obsession with mid 20th century design. With its elegant straight lines and its use of shape extending from Art Deco design that was popular until the end of WWII. I remember growing up and in my Grandad’s basement he has so many wonderful pieces of furniture and shelving systems from the 60’s that would so elegant and so gorgeous. When I was small I thought all those things looked so old but as I grew up and understood design I started to appreciate the amazing design of those products. After WWII, people were looking for exciting new designs after years of economic depression and stagnation of consumer products during the war. In the late years of the 1940’s as companies started to produce consumer products they mostly used pre-war designs but at the end of the decade they started to experiment with a whole new kind of design. As Americans started to buy houses, cars, and products to fill them in 1950, all new designs exploded onto the scene. The design motif that lasted from 1950 to 1975 became iconic as “mid-century.”

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