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Cherish the traditional, honor the antique, and invite fun and color into your retro mid century themed home
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mid-century modern has made a roaring comeback
If sleek lines, geometric shapes, and minimal clutter is what you crave, then Mid-Century Modern style is your interior design match.
This throwback style embraces mixed materials - like wood, plastic, and metal - and low-profile furniture with tapered legs to create a look that is trendy, yet timeless.
A Mid-Century color palette is flexible, so you can keep it simple with neutral colors or add pops of pumpkin orange, avocado green, or mustard yellow to enhance the retro vibe
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Modern Retro will inspire you to create a stylish, individual home that combines modern classics with thrift-store finds and the best of contemporary design.
Past and present can sit stylishly together - a 1930's Aalto stacking stool with Eames chairs from the 1950's, a modern chain-store sofa with a 1970's glass top table - allowing you to make the most of the gloriously eclectic forms, colors, and patterns available."
In recent years, mid-20th-century modern furniture, ceramics, glass, and textiles have become hugely popular among people who appreciate the stylish contribution that these pieces make to today's home.
Modern Retro will inspire you to create a look that combines classics by such visionaries as the Eameses, Bertoia, and Aalto with thrift-store finds and the best contemporary design.
Combining the clean, unadorned lines of the International Modernists with organic and geometric forms, the Catalina Collection is suggestive of the works of America’s Mid-Century Modern designers. All pieces are crafted in solid American black walnut or maple hardwood.
Add a little contemporary glamour with a touch of retro lighting.
Modern Retro is not about slavishly recreating a period feel - but instead taking the best designs of the 1920s through the 1970s and use them throughout your home in a relaxed and individual way.
Past and present can sit stylishly together - allowing you to make the most of the gloriously eclectic forms, colors, and patterns available.
Modern Retro will inspire you to create a look that combines classics by such visionaries as the Eameses, Bertoia, and Aalto with thrift-store finds and the best contemporary design.
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Add a little contemporary glamour with a touch of retro lighting.
Modern Retro is not about slavishly recreating a period feel - but instead taking the best designs of the 1920s through the 1970s and use them throughout your home in a relaxed and individual way.
Past and present can sit stylishly together - allowing you to make the most of the gloriously eclectic forms, colors, and patterns available.
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Step into the mid-century modern style
This buffet has a dark walnut finish and two cabinets with two shelves each. A circle cut-out wine bottle rack adds style even when empty, providing a place for up to five of your favorite vintages to be kept close at home.
Inspired by Mid-Century style, this modern pendant light features a
luminous antique gold finish. Six lights glow from within an openwork
drum frame. With a charming geometric pattern, this design from the
Layla collection by Crystorama, is ideal for modern and contemporary
style dining rooms, living rooms, and entryways.
Inject mid-century flair into your entertaining arsenal with a bar cart.
Modern Mix decorating style
Brighten up any living space with the Canopy mini pendant, featuring an elegant wood shade design. This effulgent fixture delights with a stunning finish and a contemporary, single-light design.
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Retro duvet covers and Mid century comforters, duvet covers,
curtains, rugs, throw pillows and more
Bring back the 60s with a mod style retro look
mixed with a touch of funky modern
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Classic mid-20th century-furniture icons. - now available in different colors
Travel back in style with these funky Retro Egg chairs with their unconventional shape that resembles a space-age pod. The construction makes it perfect for sound isolation, and a comfortable area to sit and read. Its chamber-like shape and upholstered interior cancels out most outside noise, providing a unique environment for meditation, relaxation and just getting away from it all.
Add fun shaped beaded curtains to complete the retro look.
Accessorize with colorful and fun decorative accents.
Retro look wallpaper of the past updated for today's homes.
The seventies are back with this nod to the halcyon days of flared trousers and bold design.
COBRA TABLE LAMP
Add a classic retro accent to a room with this cool orange fiberglass lounge chair.
- The fiberglass Ball chair remains as cutting edge in its design, despite being created over 40 year's ago.
Accessorize with colorful and fun decorative accents.
Don't forget the quirky and odd-looking furniture!
Whether it's a lipstick-red love seat shaped like Marilyn Monroe's lips, an anthropomorphic "man" chaise, a bean bag chair, or a "domestic capsule unit," 1960s furniture still has the power to startle and delight.
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Mid-century modern furniture refuses to fade into the obscurity of the past
Bring back that 70s style
Using loud and eye-catching wallpaper patterns colors
Retro look wallpaper of the past updated for today's homes.
The seventies are back with this nod to the halcyon days of flared trousers and bold design.
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Add a touch of nostalgia -
come on .... who didn't have a boomerang shaped coffee table, be honest.
Crazy mix of patterns, shapes and colors with a twist of quirkiness
The clean, cool lines of modern architecture was a direct rebuttal to the neoclassical styles that came before. Rooms flowed into one another and often included floor-to-ceiling glass walls to open the house to the natural world.
"The new structures placed emphasis on efficiency and function, as well as informality and comfort," says author Lisa Skolnik. Inside, bold, spare furnishings like low-slung sofas and ovoid glass coffee tables were arranged with minimum clutter and often featured built-in furniture to keep the space open and airy.
Clocks, lamps, and glassware took on asymmetrical and free-form shapes; most popularly, kidneys, amoebas, and boomerangs.
That lime-green Egg chair of grandma's - which you thought hideous as a child - would now be snapped up in a second by a savvy collector.
cool cats and chicks
Living Retro style
retro - yet modern with a splash of rainbow color
In the Seventies disco was king!
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Take the 1950’s look - complete with collector's pieces - and mixing and matching it with elements from other eras.
cool cats and chicks
Living Retro style
retro - yet modern with a splash of rainbow color
In the Seventies disco was king!
The sideburns of John Travolta made young girls hearts beat faster.
Bell-bottom jeans were hot and the Cookie Monster from Sesame Street was still allowed to eat Cookies.
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All You Need Is Love
Nothin' like a little love and peace!
Nothin' like a little love and peace!
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50s style decorating ideas
Take the 1950’s look - complete with collector's pieces - and mixing and matching it with elements from other eras.
Choose from the arty Bohemia of the 1910s, the chic 20s of the flappers, the elegant Art Deco styles of the 30s and 40s, or the modernism of the 50s. Those who prefer a more modern look can choose between the dazzling Pop Art of the 60s, the penthouse cosmopolitan 70s, the Post-modern eclectic 80s, or 90s loft living. Whatever your style, make it your own.
Style your Modern Vintage Home: A guide to buying, restoring and styling from the 1920s to 1990s
inspirational book for all vintage enthusiasts. It encompasses
everything vintage lovers want in one place: every vintage decade, every
practical tip for buying, styling and restoring your vintage homewares
and achieving your perfectly styled vintage home.Vintage enthusiasts can see how these must-have items or styles work in their own home and how to integrate vintage with modern.
Each chapter covers a decade from the 1920s to the 1990s. Every chapter introduces the fascinating social history from that period and how what was going on in the world influenced the interior homes of that time. The chapters are divided by sub-sections for the main rooms in the house, including, living room, bedroom, kitchen, study, hall and even the garden, showing the must-have items from for those rooms in each period.
Contemporary homes that have been decorated in that Mid-Century style, resulting in achieving that look without appearing dated.
Each chapter is broken down into a different aspect of decor - color, materials, lighting etc.
Filled with spectacular color photos of mid-century modern home interiors. Lots of ideas here for color schemes, furniture layout and incorporating mid-century aspects into any room of your home.
Great book for the mid century modern enthusiast!
Atomic Ranch Mid century Interiors
There are eight homes featured in this book, all are great examples of mid-century style, yet each is very different than the next. It shows the diversity of the period.
Lots of great ideas for retro look.
House & Garden 1950s House (Decades of Design)
The post-war consumer boom of the 1950s, coupled with a desire for new,
innovative design resulted in one of the most exciting decades in the
history of interiors - a visual revolution that was captured on the
pages of British House & Garden.
House & Garden Sixties House
House & Garden Sixties House
From Pop art to Op art, plastic furniture to bubble-gum paint colours,
the Sixties saw a new wave of interior design that was closely linked to
popular culture and fashion, becoming increasingly youth-oriented and
playful to appeal to the new generation of baby-boomers.
Mid-Century Modern: Furniture of the 1950s
This highly praised celebration of '50s design recalls the wonders of boomerang-shaped coffee tables, the funky curvaceousness of biomorphic furniture, the industrial sleekness of cool metals, and other design delights.
Mid-Century Modern Mania
Who doesn't love to color?
This is a step back to the fifties, sixties
The images in this book are unusual for a coloring book. Living room scenes, pages filled with bowls or kitchen utensils etc.
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Mid-Century Modern: Furniture of the 1950s
This highly praised celebration of '50s design recalls the wonders of boomerang-shaped coffee tables, the funky curvaceousness of biomorphic furniture, the industrial sleekness of cool metals, and other design delights.
Mid-Century Modern Mania
Who doesn't love to color?
This is a step back to the fifties, sixties
The images in this book are unusual for a coloring book. Living room scenes, pages filled with bowls or kitchen utensils etc.
super cool Mid-Century Modern design. Like living in a film set more pictures here
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Beatnik chicks and cool dudes decor - mid century decorating decor
70s theme decorating blog
50s theme decorating ideas Blog
Tie Dye Bedding and Hippie Decor
Flower Power Theme Bedrooms and Groovy pad decor
Scooby Doo theme bedroom decorating blog
Rainbow Theme Bedroom decor
Rainbow Theme Rooms Blog
Modern baby bedrooms Blog
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