Anonymous wrote:Mainstream 80’s decor was considered tacky then and the joke hasn’t lost its humor. Mauve everywhere. Those touch tulip lamps Gen Z is paying heavily for were sold at flea markets and no one with taste would have considered purchasing one. Black lacquer particleboard furnishings. Neon lit wall posters - Nagel art. Seafoam green. The horror. The HORROR. It’s kitsch but I wouldn’t place mainstream trends of the decade among formidable styles.

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Anonymous wrote:I refuse to admit it's a thing. I think it's a joke being foisted upon us.

No, the joke is the rebirth of "French Country". I blame Joanna Gaines for the renaissance of this old style. Making new kitchens look old; it's like when millennials spend a fortune to buy new "distressed" clothes with designer tears, rips and holes. The latest is faux mud and paint stains.

Oh man I hate country anything. It burns my eyeballs. My inlaws love that country colonial style from the late 70s like wagon wheels, butter churns and oak wood everything. It's awful. They just love Joanna Gaines and just redid their first floor in ship lap.

I love MCM and Hollywood regency. A mix of both really suits my style. This kind of decorating never made it to rural America the way Joanna Gaines has.

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Yes, that is my point. It's been around since the 1950s. Therefore, it is not a fad.

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

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.

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.

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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Curious - what are the key words one would search for on etsy, etc if you were looking for trendy 80s stuff? Searching for "mid century" or "bauhaus" is easy. Not sure if there are key words for 80s.

Deco Revival should bring up stuff from the late 70s / 80s. Things like:

https://www.chairish.com/product/702430/hollywood-regency-art-deco-revival-cloverleaf-top-green-velvet-parson-style-dining-chairs-set-of-fo
https://www.etsy.com/listing/529074485/vintage-80s-deco-glass-top-coffee-table


Also black lacquer was very popular in the 80s, so you can search that too:

https://www.etsy.com/listing/519834888/2-black-constantini-pietro-chairs
https://www.etsy.com/listing/546644564/set-of-6-80s-black-lacquer-italian

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Anonymous wrote:I refuse to admit it's a thing. I think it's a joke being foisted upon us.

No, the joke is the rebirth of "French Country". I blame Joanna Gaines for the renaissance of this old style. Making new kitchens look old; it's like when millennials spend a fortune to buy new "distressed" clothes with designer tears, rips and holes. The latest is faux mud and paint stains.