Using retro furniture on your interior design
Defining some of the modern styles of the 20th century can prove to
be a rather difficult task because they grew in complexity as the
century progressed and influenced each other one after the other.
What we call retro design today, encompasses in fact several decades,
starting during the fifties, and many design related details which seem
however to blend fairly well one into another. Even if we do refer to as
being retro to everything from the fifties to the seventies, it’s
important to be aware of the fact that the style of that period got its
influences from the Art Deco movement of the twenties and thirties.
Regardless of where and how it exactly started, retro didn’t stay dead
and now it’s back and it’s been back a couple of times in the past
couple of decades in various ways. When we’re talking about retro
furniture then it’s becoming even more interesting because there have
been certain retro designs that never truly died even if they did fall a
bit from favor. Nevertheless right now retro furniture is en vogue once
more, both with its classic designs being produced again using
modern-day production techniques and materials, or as a source of
inspiration for modern furniture designers.
Retro is in fact so popular that people are starting to decorate not
only corners in retro fashion but whole rooms and entire homes, and they
do this for a variety of reasons. Some of them grew up in the sixties
and seventies with similar furniture in their parents’ house and do it
out of a deep sense of nostalgia for those times, while others are way
too young to have been born back then but are nonetheless intrigued by
retro’s minimalistic construction, curvy shapes and varied use of colors
and patterns. Retro is definitely for someone who feels retro and who
isn’t satisfied with the available furniture and accessories. They
either want things that are simple and functional, or things that are
colorful and look funky as a way of expressing their own sense of style.
Besides the kidney-shaped coffee tables and Formica table-tops, retro
also stands for very comfortable chairs, but maybe chair is a bit too
traditional for what the retro years spawned. There was, and still is,
the egg chair which nestled the individual in its comfortable shape and
then there were the bean bags or bean chairs which conformed to each
individual’s shape and size, making for a very comfortable experience. |
