What does retro-modern mean?
Retro-modern means Having design elements from the modernist movements of the 1920s, 30s, 40s, or 50s..
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Having design elements from the modernist movements of the 1920s, 30s, 40s, or 50s..
Likewise, CYAN's marriage of type and image provides greater dimensionality to Eliasson's concepts but also suggests a retro-modern sensibility.
The retro-modern entertainment center is not a project for beginners.
All have an attached alfresco kitchen, as do the crog lofts, four effortlessly hip, retro-modern mezzanine apartments carved from a former barn.
Marketing can also abet mid-century designs from being trapped in a retro-modern paradigm: Per Lütken's glass bowl for Holmegaard from 1955 was originally called the Arne Bowl (after Holmegaard's then-director Arne Boas) but today is sold as the Provence Bowl, a name not only separating it from its time of origin but from even being Danish.
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Retro-modern means Having design elements from the modernist movements of the 1920s, 30s, 40s, or 50s..
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Likewise, CYAN's marriage of type and image provides greater dimensionality to Eliasson's concepts but also suggests a retro-modern sensibility.
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