Contemporary
The prevailing current idiom: clean-lined, unornamented, neither period-referencing nor doctrinally modernist.
How it connects
Contemporary is blended into Transitional.
Contemporary relates to Contemporary (period).
In other taxonomies
- Contemporary (style of art)Getty AAT, 300264737related, not the same
- Wikidatano equivalent
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Contemporary
22 terms, Minimalism to Constructivism
The word “contemporary”
2 meanings
- ContemporaryStyle, this termNo default
- ContemporaryPeriodNo default
Record
DELIBERATELY TIME-RELATIVE, and the only term here that is. What it denotes moves; the id does not. Consumers distinguish it from modern in practice - a furnishings retailer carries both at similar volume - without anyone having written down how. period.contemporary is a different thing on a different axis; the prefix disambiguates.
- Relations
- Related to Contemporary
- Usage
- dominantin room schemes in a furnishings retailer (src-03), measured 18 Aug 2026
- Provenance
- evidenceda furnishings retailer (src-03), a rendering pipeline (src-08) and a materials-retrieval system (src-05), read 21 Aug 2026
- Kind
- Market idiomA category the trade converged on, defined by resemblance to central cases and by nothing else. There is no manifesto to appeal to, and asking for necessary and sufficient conditions misunderstands it.
For machines
Permanent address
/id/style/contemporaryKnowledge 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-conceptStyleincoming
- has-conceptStyleincoming
- related-toContemporaryincoming
- belongs-to-axisStyleoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetStyleoutgoing
- blended-intoTransitionaloutgoing
- related-toContemporaryoutgoing
- blend-ofTransitionalincoming
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300264737 | Contemporary (style of art) | related, not the same |
| Wikidata | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026contemporary interior design via https://www.wikidata.org/w/api.php?action=wbsearchentities&language=en&uselang=en&limit=8&format=json | none |