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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote]Yes, that is my point. It's been around since the 1950s. Therefore, it is not a fad. [/quote]

Of course it has been around that long, but it's only been [i]fashionable[/i] for ten years or so. No one was making their houses look that way on purpose in the 80s or 90s. [/quote]

Yes, it was popular from the 50s until the early 70s and then was very much out of style for decades. The same thing will happen again.

Kind of like bell bottoms/flared pants. They were big in the 60s and 70s, went away for a long time, came back and are gone again. 
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Except some things don't stay a trend and won't come back.  furniture/decor was butt ugly in the 80s and no one tries to recreate it or preserve it:
https://www.architecturaldigest.com/story/children-of-the-80s-will-remember-these-home-trends

Mcm has it's roots in Art Deco which came from art nouveau--these are beautiful styles.[/quote]

MCM is pretty far from Art Nouveau. MCM is very bare bones and that was the whole point. Art Nouveau was about craftsmanship while MCM took an industrial approach to design and style and cut away all the craftsmanship from design.

Your link is neat. I remember a lot of those interiors. I still consider some of them tasteful and nice. Many of them aren't that different from other more recent styles either. I'm not sure why you call it butt ugly. In the 1980s we thought the 1960s-1970s was genuinely "butt ugly" and a lot of it had to do with the quality of furniture made, which went through a depressing low.

Most styles come in and out of fashion as trends come and go. MCM is a perfect example. Some styles seem to have longer staying power, the classical "georgian/colonial" furniture has been consistently around for the past 120 years in varying guises and incorporated into different styles. MCM's flaw is that it's a fairly rigid style requiring adherence to one set of design principles and it's not so easy to mix with other styles. Unlike Georgian, which is flexible and adaptable.

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Art nouveau was about using nature as inspiration.  Art Deco was a nod to the rise of greater industrialization--mid century modern sprung from that.

You can see the transitions in the furniture as well as buildings.  Midcentury modern borrows from both:

http://www.apartmenttherapy.com/art-deco-vs-art-nouveau-whats-the-difference-227508
https://www.curbed.com/2015/4/8/9973300/why-everyone-is-obsessed-with-midcentury-modern-design
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