Contemporary
type: Concept
in scheme: style
notation: style.contemporary
definition: The prevailing current idiom: clean-lined, unornamented, neither period-referencing nor doctrinally modernist.
related match: http://vocab.getty.edu/aat/300264737
semantic id: style.contemporary
source basis: evidenced
source: designshop, materia, materialgraph
date: 2026-08-21
usage band: dominant
usage corpus: designshop room schemes
usage measured: 2026-08-18
scope 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.