{"id":16979,"date":"2019-11-21T17:13:07","date_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/?p=16979"},"modified":"2019-11-21T17:13:10","modified_gmt":"2019-11-21T17:13:10","slug":"things-you-didnt-know-about-mid-century-modern-furniture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/things-you-didnt-know-about-mid-century-modern-furniture\/","title":{"rendered":"Things You Didn\u2019t Know About Mid-century Modern Furniture"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Well, today\u2019s issue is different from the usual. Yes, we are going to talk about mi-century modern furniture<\/strong><\/em>: but the thing is, do you think do you know already everything about this subject?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If you\u2019re a Mad Men fan, then you\u2019ve certainly seen your fair share of mid-century modern furniture\u2014chic, architecturally designed pieces, with clean lines and organic forms. Not a Mad Men fan? Interested in learning more about this type of d\u00e9cor? Here are four things you didn\u2019t know about mid-century modern furniture.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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1) WWII influenced the beginnings of mid-century modern furniture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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When the economic situation started to improve after WWII, Americans began demanding functional, fashionable, and affordable furniture. The war influenced various technological and industrial advancements, and in turn impacted the furniture industry. Economical, mass-produced, modern furniture was then designed and produced. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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2) Mid-century modern furniture was designed to be beautiful and functional<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Are you searching for beautiful yet affordable furniture? The furniture industry turned to modern designs. The modernist movement cast aside the notion that furniture was simply ornamental and needed to focus on details and craftsmanship. Functional furniture became more popular, and allowed for manufacturers to think more about the furniture design, and less on the details. Focusing less on details allowed for mass-production and saved manufacturers precious time and money. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

3) Non-traditional materials were often used in mid-century modern furniture<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Due to the technological and industrial post-war changes, many non-traditional materials were used in the creation of mid-century modern furniture. Steel, plastic, plywood, glass, Lucite, Plexiglass, and acrylics were all common furniture components. The main goal was to use cost-effective materials so that furniture could be mass-produced and sold to a large number of consumers. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

4) Mid-century furniture producer Herman Miller also invented the office cubicle<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Herman Miller is one of the most notable American mid-century furniture producers, well-known for furniture designs such as the Eames Lounge Chair and Noguchi Table. The company was founded in 1905 in Zeeland, MI under the name of Star Furniture Co. It was soon renamed The Michigan Star Furniture company, and experienced yet another name change to Herman Miller, when Herman Miller himself bought a majority of the company\u2019s stock.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In addition to mid-century furniture designs, the Herman Miller company, in collaboration with George Nelson\u2019s New York Design Studio, and under the instruction of Robert Propst, invented the \u201coffice cubicle.\u201d In the 1960s, Herman Miller added on the Herman Miller Research Division and created the \u201cAction Office 1\u201d line, later known as the \u201cAction Office II\u201d line, and then simply \u201cAction Office\u201d (better known as today\u2019s modern-day cubicle). The \u201cAction Office\u201d was a modern design that was supposed to free workers from working in an enclosed space (a fact that many will argue today!).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Well, today\u2019s issue is different from the usual. Yes, we are going to talk about mi-century modern furniture: but the thing is, do you think do you know already everything about this subject? If you\u2019re a Mad Men fan, then you\u2019ve certainly seen your fair share of mid-century modern furniture\u2014chic, architecturally designed pieces, with clean […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":16986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[871,84,872,59,122,873],"class_list":["post-16979","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interior-design","tag-mad-men-furniture","tag-mid-century-furniture","tag-mid-century-furniture-designs","tag-mid-century-modern-furniture","tag-mid-century-style","tag-midcentury-interior-design"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16979"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16979"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16979\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16987,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16979\/revisions\/16987"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/16986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16979"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16979"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.essentialhome.eu\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16979"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}