Mid-Century Modern
The postwar domestic meaning of modernism: organic curves, teak and walnut, tapered legs, warm rather than austere.
Also called mcm.
How it connects
Mid-Century Modern is a kind of Modernism.
Mid-Century Modern evokes Mid-Century.
Other kinds of Modernism: Critical Regionalism and Organic Modernism.
In other taxonomies
- Mid-Century ModernistGetty AAT, 300343610nearly the same
- mid-century modernWikidata, Q6840667nearly the same
For developersRecord, identifiers and graph
Where it sits
One rule per term beside it, taller for each narrower term
Top of the axis
Mid-Century Modern
3 terms, Mid-Century Modern to Organic Modernism
The word “mid-century modern”
2 meanings
- Mid-Century ModernStyle, this termNo default
- Mid-CenturyPeriodNo default
Record
Style, not period. A reproduction built in 2024 is style.mid-century-modern in the period.contemporary period, which is why the two axes cannot be one.
- Also called
- mcm
- Broader
- Modernism
- Relations
- Evokes Mid-Century
- Provenance
- evidencedan architecture-projects platform (src-01), an editorial image library (src-02), a furnishings retailer (src-03) and a materials-retrieval system (src-05), read 21 Aug 2026
- Kind
- MovementA declared movement with an art-historical record behind it. A disagreement about its edges is a disagreement about that record, and is settled by meaning it.
For machines
Permanent address
/id/style/mid-century-modernKnowledge 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
- evoked-byMid-Centuryincoming
- belongs-to-axisStyleoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetStyleoutgoing
- broaderModernismoutgoing
- evokesMid-Centuryoutgoing
- narrowerModernismincoming
Derived hierarchy views
- ancestor (derived)Modernismoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Critical Regionalismoutgoing
- sibling (derived)Organic Modernismoutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300343610 | Mid-Century Modernist | nearly the same |
| Wikidata | Q6840667 | mid-century modern | nearly the same |