Mid-Century Modern
The postwar domestic reading of modernism: organic curves, teak and walnut, tapered legs, warm rather than austere.
- Also called
- mcm
- Seen in the wild
- None
- Broader
- Modernism
- Narrower
- None
- Relations
- Evokes period.mid_century
- Usage
- Not measured
- Provenance
- evidencedarchitizer, designround, designshop, materialgraph, 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 reading it.
- Status
- active
- Material Semantics id
- style.mid-century-modern
- Note
- 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.
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | 300343610 | Mid-Century Modernist | exactMatch |