Transitional
type: Concept
in scheme: style
notation: style.transitional
definition: The deliberate midpoint between traditional and contemporary: period silhouettes stripped of ornament, or contemporary forms softened with classical proportion.
related: traditional
related: contemporary
relation:
  predicate: blend-of
  target: traditional
relation:
  predicate: blend-of
  target: contemporary
searched without:
  date: 2026-08-21
  query: transitional, transitional style, Transitional Style
  scheme: aat
  via: vocab.getty.edu/sparql
semantic id: style.transitional
source basis: evidenced
source: designshop
date: 2026-08-21
usage band: common
usage corpus: designshop room schemes
usage measured: 2026-08-18
scope 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.