Meaning of retro-modern | Babel Free

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Having design elements from the modernist movements of the 1920s, 30s, 40s, or 50s.

Examples

“Likewise, CYAN's marriage of type and image provides greater dimensionality to Eliasson's concepts but also suggests a retro-modern sensibility.”

“The retro-modern entertainment center is not a project for beginners.”

“All have an attached alfresco kitchen, as do the crog lofts, four effortlessly hip, retro-modern mezzanine apartments carved from a former barn.”

“Marketing can also abet mid-century designs from being trapped in a retro-modern paradigm: Per Lütken's glass bowl for Holmegaard from 1955 was originally called the Arne Bowl (after Holmegaard's then-director Arne Boas) but today is sold as the Provence Bowl, a name not only separating it from its time of origin but from even being Danish.”

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