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Inspiring Retro Style

Published by admin on October 11th, 2011

Retro style is flexible and easy to adjust to equate with various accessories. What are the retro styles of the ever popular?

Architects and interior designers Keiza Amorani in his book reforming the Fresh Ideas House Scholastic Press publication summarizes are popular retro styles from the 1930s to the 1970s.

Decorative Art

Decorative arts and ornaments are rich detail of this is aesthetic modernization movement pioneered by Le Corbusier. French architect is expertly combine French style decorative style was then being on the rise in German output technology. So, new movement called Art Deco.

This movement is gaining in popularity in 1930 and continued until 1940. After that, Art Deco began to swallowed new movements in art, then back in the 1970s in a more simple form, such as furniture-shaped formal circles, squares and triangles with a clear line, simple without complicated curves, short legs and enlarged to the horizontal direction.

Fifties

Economic growth in continental Europe in early 1950 brought a change in the world. Rapidly developing technology no longer cause the art is done manually, but began to be assisted with machine tools.

The second era of modernization in the 20th century this led to the emergence of change in shape, color, and design lines. The material used for furniture is also more modern.

This period is known as the beginning of the contemporary era in the design world. The spirit of freedom, liberation, and the game form is characteristic of the design in the 1950s this. The application of this style such as furniture made ​​from fiber, Formica, vinyl, foam rubber, melamine, or plastic. The color fuchsia, red, yellow, orange, a color accentuation of primary, both for walls, furniture and upholstery.

Generally, the materials used are solid wood with accents of iron, brass, or metal. Mint green wall color, beige, ivory, beige, and light gray.

Pop art

It was no one if Andy Warhol was named as a symbol of pop art movement in the era of the 1960s. The design is unique, sharp, and rich colors make this the most different compared to the times of other retro design. In this era of development of the interior architectural design can not be separated from the world of fashion. What are the trends in fashion will make an immediate impact on the world of interior architecture.

One of the most dominant is the Paco Rabanne. He designed clothes for the Jane Fonda-style space age. This fashion trend then became ubiquitous. Models and form of furniture, then, looks like the celestial bodies are wrapped in colorful cover.

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