Modernism
type: Concept
in scheme: style
notation: style.modernism
definition: The early-to-mid twentieth century movement: form led by function, structure left legible, ornament refused on principle.
alternative label: modernist
alternative label: international style
semantic id: style.modernism
source basis: evidenced
source: architizer, materia
date: 2026-08-21
usage withheld:
  corpus: designshop room schemes
  reason: DesignShop tags a dominant share of its room schemes `Modern`, but that is the crosswalk row that declines: `Modern` reads as either this term or `style.contemporary`, and the source never recorded which. Attributing the usage here would smuggle in the guess the crosswalk refused to make.
scope note: NOT the consumer sense of "modern". A consumer calling a room modern usually means it is current and clean-lined, which is `contemporary` here. The two are separate terms and the crosswalk from an ambiguous source label declines rather than guessing. See ADR 0001.