Transitional
The deliberate midpoint between traditional and contemporary: period silhouettes stripped of ornament, or contemporary forms softened with classical proportion.
How it connects
Transitional is a blend of Contemporary and Traditional.
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
22 terms, Minimalism to Constructivism
Record
Defined only relative to two other terms, which is unusual and was nearly grounds to refuse it. It stays because it is heavily used in the US consumer market and because the relative definition is the honest one - the term genuinely means "between those two" and pretending otherwise would invent content nobody intends.
- Relations
- Blend of ContemporaryBlend of Traditional
- Usage
- commonin room schemes in a furnishings retailer (src-03), measured 18 Aug 2026
- Provenance
- evidencedroom schemes in a furnishings retailer (src-03), 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/transitionalKnowledge 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
- blended-intoContemporaryincoming
- blended-intoTraditionalincoming
- belongs-to-axisStyleoutgoing
- belongs-to-facetStyleoutgoing
- blend-ofContemporaryoutgoing
- blend-ofTraditionaloutgoing
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | How close |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | no equivalent | searched 21 Oct 2026transitional AND style via https://vocab.getty.edu/sparql | none |