Transitional
The deliberate midpoint between traditional and contemporary: period silhouettes stripped of ornament, or contemporary forms softened with classical proportion.
- Also called
- None
- Seen in the wild
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- Broader
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- Narrower
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- Relations
- Blend of style.traditionalBlend of style.contemporary
- Usage
- commonin designshop room schemes, measured 18 Aug 2026
- Provenance
- evidenceddesignshop, 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.transitional
- Note
- 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.
Crosswalks
| Scheme | Identifier | Their label, or the search | Match |
|---|---|---|---|
| Getty AAT | no equivalent | searched 21 Aug 2026transitional, transitional style, Transitional Style via vocab.getty.edu/sparql | none |