1960s → 1990s · design as living culture

Design culture

Vintage Design Center connects objects to the ideas, materials, makers and social changes that shaped them. An interior becomes a conversation across time.

Living archiveobjects stay in use
In personscale and material become tangible
In contextmaker, period and condition remain visible
01

New materials, new ways of living

Fibreglass, plastics, aluminium and modular production brought optimism, mobility and colour into everyday interiors.

02

The room became social

Low seating, warm woods and tactile fabrics made living more informal and collective. The object makes more sense when its use is visible.

03

From postmodern play to precision

Colour, geometry and humour broke established rules before the cleaner lines of the 1990s learned to choose again.

04

Not nostalgia

Condition, repair and contemporary use matter as much as period. Vintage Design Center presents vintage design as a living material culture, not a frozen style lesson.

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