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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ownedbybear, post: 338088, member: 29&quot;]Brad, don&#039;t forget we were replacing stuff like mad after so much was destroyed, and sometimes sentiment wins out over fashion in terms of style. Looking at furniture ads and magazine articles in the 50s is fascinating: it had been impossible to buy new for so many years. My parents had Georgian furniture bought cheap at auction because you simply could not get anything new. You then got a real dichotomy after the Festival of Britain between the new amazingly funky stuff which people like Robin Day were designing and a kind of traditionalist harking back to happier days. So, you get Gothic Revival in the 50s from people like E Gomme and Olde Charm, mixed in with atomic legged coffee tables and astonishing fabrics. </p><p><br /></p><p>It&#039;s the thing about not being able to detach style from social history, hm?[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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