Style with clean lines, simple contours, and bold colors as primary features. Read about decorating styles.
Based on the Modern style, except this style uses classical concepts for decoration and detail. Often furniture is made of rubber, metal, or concrete with long low profiles.
Existing today, at present; Having a distinctively modern style.
designs featuring basic lines, geometric patterns and curves.
Encompasses a wide range of styles developed in the latter half of the 20th century. Pieces feature softened and rounded lines, as opposed to the stark lines seen in modern design. Interiors contain neutral elements and bold color and focus on the basics of line, shape and form. More info
belonging to the present time; "contemporary leaders"
belonging to the present time; current; modern.
A term widely used to define a style of British design of the 1950s that sought to appear up to date but which was a far remove from the purism of International Modernism. Characterised by a lively use of colour, new materials, humour and lightness of structure, it appeared a dramatic contrast to war-time drabness and stifling historicism. The Festival of Britain in 1951 is regarded as the moment when the Contemporary style, in many fields of design, reached its widest public.
Style of furniture developed in the latter half of the 20th century; has softer, rounder lines than modern design
A term broadly used to describe architecture constructed between the 1940s through the 1970s. Contemporary buildings frequently have flat roofs, roof decks and broad overhanging eaves. Modern architecture is also a term used as a synonym for Contemporary.
Non-traditional styles of rugs that range from shag and braided rugs to pile-weave rugs with geometric or modern patterns. Also used to describe rugs less than 25 years old.
A term covering several styles of furniture that developed in the latter half of the 20th century; an updated look that softened and rounded the lines of stark modern design.
The perpetual "now" in any genre and, since around 1970, replacing "modern" as America's official indigenous look or sound. To some, anything that is recent; to others, anything with a "still up-to-date" sound. Its use as in "contemporary classical" and "contemporary music" seeks to emphasize the "living artist" factor. In rock: a term only used by your dad or a "light-FM" radio Music Director. (DW/SK)
A versatile style that is in between traditional and modern: it has clean lines and very little decorative details.
A term covering many styles of furniture that developed in the latter half of the 1900's. Contemporary pieces have an updated look that's softened and rounded compared with the stark lines of modern design.
Non-traditional style category. The designs range from tailored architectural geometrics to free-form asymmetrical styles.
Style of KOHLER product with modern appeal. Sharp design lines accent faucets and fixtures in unconventional shapes, sizes and colors.
of the present time, modern.
Covers several furniture styles developed in the latter half of the 20th century with a form that rounded and softened the stark lines of modern designs.
Literally means, "of our day." Denotes conservative modern or simplified traditional furniture.
Although literally "of our day" tern applied to middle-of-the-road, conservative modern furniture; simplified traditional; terminology used by manufacturers and retailers alike attempting to appeal to both modernists and traditionalists.
