Design Styles
Mid-Century Modern and Modernism
These terms describe the age that has popularly come to be known as Mid-Century Modern and/or Modernism although both of these are misnomers! Mid-Century Modern technically means the 50's. And "Modernism" technically means new design produced in the last 100 years - but both terms have been popularized as meaning post-World War II!
Calderwood 2 specializes in design from the time of Mod, Pop, Op, Fab, Glam and Hollywood Regency
To wit:
MOD = Modern
, was a subculture in London that began in the late 50's and peaked in the 60's. The term "MOD" was used to describe anything that was popular, fashionable or modern – from music to make-up, from clothing to curtains, from furniture design to graphic design.
POP = Pop Art
was a visual art movement that emerged in the mid-50's in the UK and the late 50's in the US. Drawn from popular mass culture, like advertising, comic books and everyday cultural objects - like soup cans - pop art removed things from their normal context and isolated them or combined them, with the perspective of fine art.
OP = Op Art (or Optical Art)
is a genre of visual art that makes use of optical illusions. Time magazine launched the term in print in October 1964 although the works it described had been produced for several yeas before. Op Art works are abstract and they give the impression of movement, hidden images, patterns, or vibrations.
FAB = 1960's shorthand for FABULOUS.
It meant over the top, great, superb, remarkable. Think today's AWESOME! The Beatles were The Fab Four.
GLAM = 1960's shorthand for GLAMOROUS or GLAMOUR.
Whatever happened to good, old-fashioned glamour?
HOLLYWOOD REGENCY = 1940's/50's glamourous and glitzy style
popularized by designers like William Haines and Dorothy Draper. Luxurious and using classic forms and with glamour found in the details.
