Contemporary
The prevailing current idiom: clean-lined, unornamented, neither period-referencing nor doctrinally modernist.
- Also called
- None
- Seen in the wild
- None
- Broader
- None
- Narrower
- None
- Usage
- dominantin designshop room schemes, measured 18 Aug 2026
- Provenance
- evidenceddesignshop, materia, materialgraph, 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.
- Status
- active
- Material Semantics id
- style.contemporary
- Note
- 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 - designshop's corpus carries both at similar volume - without anyone having written down how. `period.contemporary` is a different thing on a different axis; the prefix disambiguates.
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300264737 | Contemporary (style of art) | relatedMatch |