Mid-Century Modern Collection
Mid-Century Modern Style

Era: 1945 - 1960

Related Styles: Art Deco, Streamline

Our late-1950s lights display all the hallmarks of mid-century modern design, like super-clean lines, minimal ornamentation, and a space-inspired aesthetic evoking rockets ships, starlight, and UFOs.

Behind it all is the modernist urge to look forward to the future rather than back to the past. Mid-century lighting may now be "retro," but it captured the fascinations of the times in a way that was wholly unique.

The delicious irony is that fifty years later folks are reviving a style that reviled revivals. We wonder what icons of Modernism like Mies van der Rohe or Charles and Ray Eames would have to say.