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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I think the problem with MCM is that it got trendy and spawned so many cheap knock offs that’s what everyone thinks of.  The original stuff is nice.  I have a MCM dining table and coffee table but they don’t look like what has been sold as MCM.  It is clean lines but not the extreme sharp edges and the soindly pointed legs.  The dining room table has a dark stain.  The coffee table is natural cherry but not orange tone—more the color of someone with medium brown hair.  It’s very warm and a really good size (not too big but functional with a lower shelf, which was surprisingly hard to find when we considered replacing it).

It was the same problem with the oak antique reproductions in the 1980s.  It was cheap oak so it looked cheap.  Real quartersawn oak from the 1920s or earlier is gorgeous.

Whenever something is trendy, it kills it because you get too saturated with the cheap versions.[/quote]

Very good point. A lot of what people hate about MCM is just a small subset of what it can be. I also think one reason MCM is popular among urbanites is that it is often apartment sized, and before the MCM revival trend, it could be incredibly hard to find living room or dining furniture that worked in an apartment or small row house. I remember struggling to find a couch that worked in my tiny post-college apartment back in the mid 00s and having to settle for a loveseat because nothing else would fit. A few year later I upgraded to a full size MCM sofa that I could stretch out on but that at very compact, square proportions so it worked. In our current apartment, I am actually not sure we could do another style of dining table/chairs than MCM because our dining area is very small and MCM is so much more streamlined than most other styles. [/quote]

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