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  MID-CENTURY MODERN

PERIOD

c1940 – 1970

SUMMARY

Countries recovered from World War II. Designers seized on fresh optimism and used new materials to create a world unlike anything that had gone before. The new designs were easy to mass produce and soon become mainstream.

CHARACTERISTICS

Wood – pop – craftsmanship – exuberant colour – domestic taste – futuristic design – new materials – plastic injection moulding – clean lines – (early modernism) – abstract forms – atomic technology
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