What Is Postmodern Décor? (And How to Spot It at a Thrift Store)
If you've ever picked up a piece at a thrift store, turned it over in your hands, and thought I don't know what this is but I absolutely need it — there's a good chance it was postmodern. Bold geometry, unexpected colours, a kind of playful seriousness that somehow works. Postmodern décor is having a major moment right now, and once you know what to look for, you'll start spotting it everywhere. So what actually is postmodern décor? Postmodern design emerged in the late 1970s and really hit its stride through the 1980s and into the early 1990s. It was a direct reaction against the sleekness of modernism, the "less is more" crowd, and its whole energy was basically: what...