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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I was reviewing various run of the mill websites for furniture ideas recently and everything looks like Mad Men, late 1960s. I was sick of it when my parents and aunts/uncles had it when we were kids. I'm even more sick of it with its current revival. When are we going to get back to [b]more timeless styles?[/b] Are there companies out there that are not currently catering to this period? [/quote]

Well...it's been in style since the middle of the last century, not sure what you want here.[/quote]

Ehh. It was not "in style" in the 80s-2005. Only after 2005 did it start rearing its head again. [/quote]

Ehh, it was back by the late 90s.  I bought my first apartment in 1997, furnished it with MCM furniture (the real one, from the 60s, bought at estate sales), and then saw an article in NYTimes about the comeback, so it was definitely in the air.[/quote]

Ehh. There's always a few ahead of the trends, usually out of coincidence. MCM didn't make major strides into popular acceptance till the mid 2000s. The 90s into 2010 was all about overstuffed, Tuscan farmhouse, French country, boomer tastes. It was the Obama era that heralded the arrival of MCM into the mainstream because it was also the time that the next generation started asserting itself. Prior to that for most people, MCM meant the "ugly" split level interiors of the grandparents generation. [/quote]

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