kennedytarheel Craigslist is another source of mid-century stuff...and a lot cheaper.

mmmjs5 How would you mix this furniture in?

marcie31 Anyone who would pay $180 for that footstool from Urban Outfitters ought to have their head examined. You can buy those legs at any big box building store and make it for less than $20. With cuter fabric too.

lovesmesomepitbulls The Wallace credenza is to die for! Great stuff!

Fresh Eyes For Your Home that Wallace Credenza is just gorgeous and provides great storage for media or for dishes.

apennameandthata Never go out of fashion? That's a good sign it's peaked.

My bias is that I never did like it. Particularly the wooden pieces, seem to be wilfully depressingly undecorative looking. Apparently Eames was trying to build good furniture cheaply. So, MCM furniture would probably be influenced by cost.

I reckon that the whole idea of midcentury MODERN is a con. Usually, fashion is a rejection of what came before it. In this case, it seems that it was just a refining of furniture designs from the 1920s and 1930s - which is neither good nor bad, I suppose. The Seville leather chair looks almost identical to the Barcelona by van der Rohe from Knoll from 1929. Same thing with lounges: the major advance between 1920 and 1960 seems to have been replacing chrome with wood. Meh. I hope chrome indoor furniture never comes in fashion, because I like that even less. If they called it "retro" instead of "modern" it would never have taken off in the race-for-the-future 1950's and 1960's.

Two people commented on the Wallace credenza. It looks modern to me. The finish of the wood, in particular, is modern. Asymmetry was not a big part of MCM, either.

Please excuse the drear post.

Dustin J I just bought and received that Luna sofa by Truemodern. The color is mouse, which I think describes it well. It is has a light khaki or tan overtone. It looks slightly tan next to gray and gray next to tan. I like it a lot. To me it just looks gray with this dry wheat color that shimmers off the surface. Its firm but that is probably good for breaking in. It seemed a better deal than crate and barrel's petite or others with the quality thread count of the fabric, color choices, and its good bones.
This is a style that you can buy a nice piece or two in and then make or find other cheaper items to go with it. It rarely seems constructive to see how people can't appreciate something on the internet. You either dig it or you don't!

sartarehare What do you like apennameandthata?
I like MCM....but then, I just put a bid on a midcentury home. I love old homes and have been living in a tiny craftsman for too long, so I'm in love with the easier-to-live-with floor plans and the simplicity of all of it. But then I've always loved art deco as well..... I'm seeing some of those styles repeated recently.
Let's face it- modernism is just the same lines repeated over and over again and "updated." But that's generally why they work so well from one decade to the next. "Retro" is a re-do without the updates. Some of the above would qualify (Thrive, especially) would also look "modern" since their original designs were such.

apennameandthata @satarehare, I like Dustin J's new sofa, in spite of what I said. Too, attached are the photos I like best of all of Houzz.

apennameandthata The first of the above three is my favourite. The second and third, well, they're so exquisitely beautiful and I can't really work out how the designer did it. Much more difficult than slotting MCM into a room. The white walls have white walls in common with MCM. I guess I like some decoration. It is an honour that you asked.

sartarehare I like the third room best. Extremely interesting. I think my child would destroy the others and I'd end up yelling my head off. I love practicality in my living spaces. Thanks for sharing.

Kate Prevedello Is the sectional sofa from west elm?