Mid-Century
1945 to 1970: postwar reconstruction, system building, and the first interiors designed around mass-produced furniture rather than inherited pieces.
Also called postwar.
How it connects
Mid-Century is evoked by Brutalism and Mid-Century Modern.
Mid-Century relates to Late Twentieth Century.
In other taxonomies
- Getty AATno equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
10 terms, Medieval to Contemporary
Record
Mid-Century Modern is a STYLE and is listed under Seen in the wild only because sources routinely write it when they mean the date. The two come apart in both directions: a 1958 local authority housing block is mid-century and not Mid-Century Modern, and a 2023 walnut sideboard is Mid-Century Modern and not mid-century.
- Also called
- postwar
- Seen in the wild
- Mid-Century Modern · mid-century · midcentury · mid-century-modern
- Span
- c. 1945-1965, defensibly 1933-1975worldwideThe boundaries are conventional rather than fixed by an event, which is why they are given as approximate.
- Provenance
- authored@instruments/taxonomy ADR 0001
For machines
Permanent address
/id/period/mid-centuryKnowledge graph
Stored incoming and outgoing relations from the public V1 graph. Ancestors, descendants, and siblings are labelled as derived views rather than stored facts.
- has-conceptPeriodincoming
- has-conceptPeriodincoming
- related-toLate Twentieth Centuryincoming
- belongs-to-axisPeriodoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetPeriodoutgoing
- evoked-byBrutalismoutgoing
- evoked-byMid-Century Modernoutgoing
- related-toLate Twentieth Centuryoutgoing
- evokesBrutalismincoming
- evokesMid-Century Modernincoming
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026"postwar" OR "mid-century" via https://vocab.getty.edu/sparql | none |