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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;jonas, post: 467942, member: 8784&quot;]Thanks to all for your replies! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/smilies/smile.png" class="mceSmilie" alt=":)" unselectable="on" /> I think I&#039;ll generally look for &quot;1940s furniture&quot;. Hope to find some reproductions. Maybe if one day it catches on like MCM did. I love the US made furniture of the 1935-1949 era &amp; some European from the pre-war and after-war years. I find the softer edges make me feel more cozy than more modern furniture like MCM where hard edges and lines dominate.</p><p><br /></p><p>I think that European furniture of the 50s was more like the 40s in the USA. It makes sense as at that time trends didn&#039;t travel so fast and Europe was too devastated to care for new trends in the 40s (of course!) but they tried to play catch up after the war. So for example 1950s lamp radios here look like American radios from the 40s - soft, rounded edges and all. Seems like MCM didn&#039;t catch on in Europe until the late 50s and even later in the early 1960s in some parts of Europe. So the &quot;rounded, soft edged&quot; period (art deco-influenced) lasted well into the 1950s.</p><p><br /></p><p>Btw, these on the photo are listed as &quot;Swedish <b>art deco</b> from 1935&quot;, pretty similar to what one would see in the America movies and cartoons of the 30s and 40s, so apparently we got some of that style here as well. I&#039;m surprised Scandinavians once made more ornate furniture.</p><p><img src="http://www.midnightsunantiques.com/images/swedish-antiques-furniture-art-textiles-lighting/swedish-art-deco-furniture.jpg" class="bbCodeImage wysiwygImage" alt="" unselectable="on" />[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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