Title: What is Mid-Century Modern?
Headings: What is Mid-Century Modern?
What is Mid-Century Modern?
What is Mid-Century Modern?
What is Modernism?
Post War Life Style
Modernist Architecture
Modernism Visionaries and Evolution
Desert Modernism
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Suburban living and economic prosperity began to expand during this time, and with that, the demand for mass produced, affordable housing and furniture that offered both beauty and function. Americans seemed to move beyond painful memories of the war and focus on innovation and the future, according to What is Mid-Century Modern? in Antiques.com, The Magazine. In her book, Greenberg writes, ” The early 1950s was not the first time modern furniture had been offered to the American public, but it was the first time they lined up around the block to buy it. But it they did with cold card cash of postwar prosperity, driven by a sudden voracious hunger for curves that were swoopy, parabolic, amoeboid; lines that were long and low; ornament that was absent; materials that, until recently, had been found only in aircraft factories.” War-inspired advances in the aircraft industry made new manufacturing techniques and materials possible for this new lifestyle. Modernist Architecture
Modernist architecture emphasizes function. (