retro-modern

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English

Adjective

retro-modern (comparative more retro-modern, superlative most retro-modern)

  1. Having design elements from the modernist movements of the 1920s, 30s, 40s, or 50s.
    • 2009, Steven Heller, Mirko Ilic, Anatomy of Design:
      Likewise, CYAN's marriage of type and image provides greater dimensionality to Eliasson's concepts but also suggests a retro-modern sensibility.
    • 2011, Black & Decker The Complete Guide to Built-Ins, page 15:
      The retro-modern entertainment center is not a project for beginners.
    • 2012, Rough Guides, Make the Most of Your Time in Britain:
      All have an attached alfresco kitchen, as do the crog lofts, four effortlessly hip, retro-modern mezzanine apartments carved from a former barn.
    • 2016, Mark Mussari, Danish Modern: Between Art and Design:
      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.