mid-century modern
BRIEF
Mid-century Modern is a notably scandinavian interior design style which was popularised by the designs of Florence Knoll, Vladimir Kagan and Milo Baughman.
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The Modern and Scandinavian movements were particularly influential with iconic furniture pieces (particularly chairs, such as the Eames lounger, the Egg chair and the womb chair) constituting a big part of the Mid-century aesthetic story. Show wood frame furniture was popular as was the use of textiles in colourful shades. Woods such as rosewood, teak and walnut were used regularly and canary and mustard yellow, carnation and flamingo pink, chartreuse, pale turquoise and avocado are a quintessential Mid-century colourways.
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