80s style room decor. Such a different Soviet interior style
– a total return to the aesthetics of the 1980s. Bright color, flat designs And a large number of angular geometry. For many designers, the 80s are a throwback to their youth, so this trend is completely two-channel. That's why 80s style has taken off again, and here are a few ways to help you embrace the trend.
1) Everything new is well forgotten old
As upsetting as it may be for children of the 80s, this era is already officially considered retro. To make this realization a little less painful, let's call this decade "modern retro."
This "old" style features elements designed for early low-resolution screens. It uses design elements that take us back to the nostalgia of the early gaming systems Nintendo, proving the popularity of pixel and poster graphics.
Old a new style includes 80's charm plus everything you want to implement in a website today, with great animation and easy to read typography. Take a look at The Vinyl Lab website for example. It greets you with an 80s aesthetic, but as soon as you scroll through the site, it feels completely modern and works equally great on phones and small devices. Is this a new or old design? You decide.
2) Patterns and shapes that provide visual interest
Geometric shapes and fun patterns can give a design just what it needs - a transition from the minimalism that was so popular not long ago to a more imaginative aesthetic.
Your visual style will help determine which option will be better:
Use a pattern if the design is clean and organized and something in the background will not interfere with the content;
Using geometric shapes to add bold pop colors to your overall design if it seems a little dull. Caava Design, in the example below, uses colorful geometry in a very inspiring way.
3) Fashion influence
W Magazine predicts 80s style as one of the biggest trends in fashion.
Before you roll your eyes and ask: what does fashion have to do with it? – listen to our arguments. Regardless of the type of design - whether it's fashion, art, interior design or website design, each genre influences the other.
So how will long hair and leggings, so popular in the 80s, influence websites? Elements of the 80s may show up in the clothing of the people in the photographs. And to balance out the imagery, you may have to use oversized typography to compensate for the super-sized hair on the model.
Textiles can also be an indicator of visually pleasing elements. If people buy neon orange shirts or boldly patterned pants, they won't find the bright design elements offensive and, in fact, will subconsciously search for them on websites.
4) Neo Memphis is gaining momentum
Designs in this style are packed with bright color and lots of shapes and lines. The creators of this aesthetic model are the Memphis Group, a bunch of interior designers who worked in the 1980s.
The Memphis style is really flat with vectorized elements in an almost cartoonish style. Often, elements are layered on top of a white (light) or black (dark) background, creating a sharp contrast between each other. This style is light and cheerful, attracting attention.
5) Space and darkness are intriguing
The 80s were characterized by the use of artistic imagery using neon on a dark background and space motifs.
Space is still a dominant theme in design, and many space projects reminiscent of 80s era nostalgia. The TV show Mars, example below, uses this idea with a dark background, a bright logo and lettering in a 3D style.
6) The Impact of Flat Design
Flat design was popular in Lately, so his shift to the aesthetics of the 80s is quite natural. It's a kind of natural evolution where modern trends are combined with a retro concept.
80's themes combined with modern elements create the feeling of a bygone era, but with a user interface that modern users expect to see.
7) Total use of iconography
Many 80s design styles included cute little icons. Tiny palm trees and sunglasses on shirts, squiggles and lines on laptops - iconography marks the revival of the 80s. With so many icons imitating handwritten elements, iconography can be considered an art form of its own. Icons can provide greater flexibility to projects that lack other visual effects and help visually organize content.
Here's an example of using 80s style iconography: lots of small icons in different places, often in random order.
8) Rich color on screens
Bright color schemes are growing in popularity, another trend that is associated with flat design. It seems like a natural response to all those black and white palettes that dominated the high phase of minimalism. The shift toward color allows developers to play with design more and more, exercising creative freedom.
In conclusion….
One of the biggest reasons for the return to the 80s aesthetic is the pop culture seeping into us from the past. Maybe it’s nostalgia that overtakes every generation, maybe it’s the natural cyclical nature of styles. One thing is for sure: if you see the influence of the 80s in fashion or music, it will definitely affect web design. Don't resist - just enjoy the trend. The 80s were fun and carefree - and your modern retro design should reflect that.
Let's create something cool together!
The history of communal apartments began at the moment when Soviet authority came up with the idea of moving the proletariat into large multi-room apartments of the middle class of pre-revolutionary Russia. In the first years of its existence, the Soviet government, which promised to give workers factories, became convinced that it was not able to provide them with even separate housing. The problem became especially urgent in large cities, whose population was growing rapidly.
The Bolsheviks, with their characteristic penchant for simple solutions They found a way out - they began to move several families into one apartment, allocating each a separate room with a common kitchen and bathroom. This is how the process of creating communal apartments was launched. The apartment, consisting of several rooms, was completely occupied by different people, often entire families. Accordingly, they each had a room and shared kitchen and a bathroom.
Neighbors in communal apartments are different people social status, life interests and habits - lived in one place, intertwined destinies, quarreled and made peace. “Relationships between residents of communal apartments, as a rule, were tense: everyday difficulties embittered people,” writes writer Lev Stern in his memoirs about Odessa. “If sometimes you had to wait a long time in line to use the toilet or tap, it is difficult to expect warm relationships between neighbors.”
As a rule, communal services were organized in apartment buildings- multi-storey buildings built by the Tsars, erected by the beginning of the twentieth century in large cities. The communists began to densify the population of these “bourgeois” nests as soon as they established control over the cities. “It is necessary to densify housing, and in view of the lack of housing, we will resort to the eviction of those elements whose stay is not necessary,” wrote the newspaper Kiev Communist on February 19, 1919, two weeks after the Bolsheviks’ second attempt to gain a foothold in Kyiv. On behalf of the new government, the newspapers informed readers that “loafers, speculators, criminals, White Guards, etc. elements, of course, should be deprived of their apartments.” In addition, in Soviet apartments, as it turned out, there should be no living rooms, halls and dining rooms. The Bolsheviks promised to leave offices only to those who needed them for work - doctors, professors and senior officials. As a rule, one or two floors were vacated for new management. Previous residents and owners were placed in the same buildings, offering to vacate the square meters allocated for government needs within 24 hours. You were only allowed to take your bed and essentials with you.
The painting “Housewarming Party” (1918) by K. S. Petrov-Vodkin is indicative:
It shows in some detail the clash between the old aristocratic way of life and representatives of the working people who moved to an unconventional home, the new masters of life. A large hall with a parquet floor, on which the new residents have laid out rustic paths, next to a huge mirror and oil paintings in gilded frames hung on the walls, there are stools mixed with carved chairs. Everyday objects of opposite social strata conduct their own silent dialogue, echoing the realities of social life.
Literally a couple of years after the former tenement buildings received new tenants - small-town proletarians, who poured en masse after the revolution into big cities, the authorities were faced with an unexpected problem: strong-looking housing, built of stone and brick, began to quickly deteriorate. The poor who found themselves in the “manorial mansions” did not value them too much, because many new residents not only received housing for free, but were initially exempt from paying rent. The "proletariat" quickly finished off the sewers, water supply and stoves. Garbage began to accumulate in the courtyards, which no one took out. And devastation came, just like according to Bulgakov.
The fact that the apartment was communal was clear from the threshold - near the front door there were several call buttons with the names of the heads of families and an indication of how many times to whom to call. In all places common use- corridor, kitchen, bathroom, toilet - there were also several light bulbs, according to the number of families (no one wanted to pay for the electricity used by their neighbor). And in the toilet, each had its own toilet seat, hanging right there on the wall. Common areas were cleaned on schedule. However, the concept of cleanliness was relative, because each user had his own idea about it. As a result, fungus and insects have become constant companions of communal apartments.
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This Soviet housing know-how determined not only the life of citizens of the USSR for many years, but also became part of the urban subculture. Housing, intended to be temporary, managed to survive the Union.
Some Soviet films take place in communal apartments. Among the most famous: “Girl without an address”, “Pokrovsky Gate”, “Five Evenings”.
Stalin's apartments of the 1930s-1950s
After the cessation of 15 years of experiments to create new aesthetics and new forms of community life in the USSR, from the beginning of the 1930s, an atmosphere of conservative traditionalism was established for more than two decades. At first it was “Stalinist classicism,” which after the war grew into “Stalinist Empire style,” with heavy, monumental forms, the motifs of which were often taken even from ancient Roman architecture.
The individual comfortable apartment was declared the main type of Soviet housing. Stone, eclectically decorated houses with apartments rich by Soviet standards (often with rooms for housekeepers) were built on the main streets of cities. These houses were built using high quality materials. Thick walls, good sound insulation along with high ceilings and a full set of communications - live and be happy!
But in order to get such an apartment in such a building, one had to be in the “clip,” or, as it would later be called, be part of the nomenklatura, be a prominent representative of the creative or scientific intelligentsia. True, it should be noted that a certain number of ordinary citizens still received apartments in elite buildings.
Many people have a good idea of what apartments were like in the 50s from films of those years or from their own memories (grandmothers and grandfathers often preserved such interiors until the end of the century).
Stills from the film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears”, the film was released in 1979, but it accurately conveys the atmosphere of those years down to the smallest detail. First of all, this is luxurious oak furniture designed to last for several generations.
Those who were richer were forced to buy collectible porcelain from the Leningrad factory. IN main room The lampshade is often cheerful; the luxurious chandelier in the photo reveals the rather high social status of the owners.
The interiors of Stalin's apartments can also be seen in the canvases of artists of those years, painted with warmth and love:
A real luxury for the 50s was having your own telephone in the apartment. Its installation was important event in the life of a Soviet family. This photo from 1953 captures just such a joyful moment in one of the Moscow apartments:
Sergei Mikhalkov with his son Nikita, 1952
In the mid-50s, television gradually began to enter the life of the Soviet family, immediately taking pride of place in apartments.
In this new apartment The interiors are still pre-Khrushchev, with high ceilings and solid furniture. Pay attention to the love for round (extendable) tables, which later for some reason will become a rarity among us. A bookcase in a place of honor is also a very typical feature of Soviet home interiors.
At the end of the 1950s it will begin new era. Millions of people will begin to move into their individual, albeit very tiny, Khrushchev apartments. There will be completely different furniture there.
Khrushchevka
1955 was a turning point, since it was in this year that a decree on industrial housing construction was adopted, which marked the beginning of the Khrushchev era. But in 1955, they were still building “malenkovkas” with the last hints of the good quality and architectural aesthetics of “Stalinkas”. There could not be enough Stalinka for everyone, by definition...
The construction of the Khrushchev-era houses began in 1959 and was completed in the eighties. Typically, apartments in such houses contain from one to four rooms, which would be better called “cells.” But Khrushchevka, no matter how you scold it, became the first housing for the people in the post-revolutionary years.
Housewarming
In a new apartment. Personnel worker of the Red October plant Shubin A.I. Moscow, Tushino, 1956
Furniture from the 60s and 70s can still be found in old apartments, but most of us don’t remember what the real average interior of an apartment looked like in the late 60s and early 70s, even before the period of imported walls and our cabinet furniture. Nevertheless, it is very interesting to look at the interiors of these apartments. Let's go back 40 years and look at a typical apartment Soviet era middle-income families. Let's take a look into the living room of the 60s - 70s. So, let's start with the sideboard, which came into fashion in the 60s and replaced the buffet.
The design of the sideboards was the same, its surface was polished, according to the fashion of that time, the glass was sliding. And they all differed in one feature - it was very difficult to open the glass of the sideboard. This miracle was used for storing dishes and souvenirs.
There is also such a cute set, I know that many people still keep it as a family heirloom:
From the sideboard we glance at the chairs and coffee table. Armchairs, well, what can you say about them. Only that they were comfortable, with upholstery often in rather poisonous colors - they pleased the eye and created comfort.
Considering that in our apartments of those years, the living room was most often combined with the parents’ bedroom, many of them had dressing tables. An irreplaceable piece of furniture that every Soviet woman dreamed of. And today many still remember the old Soviet furniture and even still use sideboards, cabinets and shelves made in the USSR. Against the background of the current abundance, these polished monsters seem even uglier and antediluvian.
Such carpets were often hung on the walls of living rooms and bedrooms:
And this is what the kitchen looked like, with no furniture for you:
Barack
Now let’s see how and under what conditions 80% of the population of the USSR lived before the start of Khrushchev’s industrialization of construction. And don’t get your hopes up, these were not pretentious Stalinist buildings of different periods, and not houses - communes, and the old stock was not enough for everyone, even taking into account the resettlement in communal apartments. The basis of the housing stock of that time was a peat-filled barracks...
Each of the factory villages consisted of several stone buildings of capital construction and many wooden barracks, in which the vast majority of its inhabitants lived. Their mass construction began simultaneously with the construction of new and reconstruction of old factories during the first five-year plan. A barrack is a quickly constructed and cheap housing, built with disregard for service life and amenities, in most cases with common corridor and stove heating.
A room in one of the barracks in Magnigorsk
There was no running water or sewerage in the barracks; all these “conveniences,” as they say, were located in the courtyard of the barracks. Barrack construction was seen as a temporary measure - workers of new industry giants and old factories expanding production needed to be urgently provided with at least some kind of housing. The barracks, like the dormitories, were divided into men's, women's and family-type barracks.
For a modern city dweller spoiled by comfort, this housing will seem completely unsatisfactory, especially considering that the barracks were overcrowded already in the 1930s, and during the harsh war years of the 1940s the situation worsened even more due to evacuation. Barack did not imagine the opportunity to retire, to sit quietly at the table with his family or with his closest friends. The physical space of the barracks formed a special social space and special people, this space inhabited. But people tried to equip even such housing the best way, as far as possible, and create at least some semblance of comfort.
In Moscow, such houses existed until the mid-70s, and in more remote cities, people still live in such houses, which were thoroughly dilapidated.
New apartments of the 70-80s
Brezhnevka houses appeared in the Soviet Union in the seventies. Usually they were built not in width, but in height. The usual height of the Brezhnevka was from nine to 16 floors. It happened that even taller houses were erected.
Brezhnevka houses were required to be equipped with an elevator and a garbage chute. Apartments were located in so-called “pockets”, each such “pocket” usually had two apartments. The original name of “brezhnevok” was “apartments with improved layout”. Of course, compared to the “Khrushchev” apartments, such apartments actually had an improved layout, but if you compare them with the “Stalin” apartments, it would be more accurate to call them a “deteriorated option.” The size of the kitchen in such apartments is from seven to nine square meters, the ceilings are much lower than “Stalin’s”, the number of rooms can be from one to five.
So, entering a typical apartment of the 70s, we could see an interior consisting of a sofa and a “wall” facing opposite, two armchairs and a coffee table, a polished table - and everything was arranged the same for everyone, because... the layout left no room for imagination. This meant Life was good...
Imported walls were especially valued, from the CMEA countries, of course. They saved up for the wall for a long time, signed up for a queue, waited a long time and finally found the coveted GDR, Czech or Romanian headsets. I must say that the prices for them were quite impressive and reached 1000 rubles at average salary engineer 180-200 rubles. In many families, buying imported furniture was considered a very good and practical investment; they bought it as an inheritance for children, that is, for centuries.
These walls sometimes occupied almost half the room, but it was impossible not to have one, because it somehow imperceptibly moved from the category of cabinet furniture into the category of an object of prestige. It replaced several types of furniture and gave impetus to the emerging fashion for collecting crystal, books, etc. The shelves with beautiful glass doors had to be filled with something!
All self-respecting housewives acquired crystal glassware. Not a single dinner party was complete without a crystal glass, crystal vase or bowl sparkling in the light. In addition, crystal was considered ideal option investments of material resources.
Another obligatory item in the interior of those years was an extendable polished table.
Of course, carpets were part of the interior of a Soviet apartment. They formed an inseparable pair with crystal. In addition to aesthetic value, the carpet on the wall also had a practical value. It performed the function of soundproofing the walls, and also, in some cases, covered wall defects.
An invariable attribute of the living room: a three-tier chandelier with plastic pendants:
Transformable furniture with multiple functions was very popular. Most often, beds underwent transformation, which could turn into chairs, beds, sofa beds, as well as tables (bedside table, sideboard table, dressing tables, etc.). For many families this was a salvation. Sometimes, in the evening the living room turned into a bedroom: a sofa bed, armchairs and beds. And in the morning the room again turned into a living room.
Stills from the film "Moscow Doesn't Believe in Tears." In the 80s in the USSR, such an interior was considered simply aerobatics.
And such an interior as in Samokhvalov’s apartment in the film “Office Romance” was also the envy of ordinary Soviet citizens.
Perhaps fifty years from now our current homes will also be an object of curiosity for future generations, with the inevitable pros and cons being weighed up. But this stage is necessary for our future, just as the past aesthetics of the Soviet apartment was necessary for the perception of our present.
Source http://www.spletnik.ru/
Rough, hard wallpaper on the walls, creaking parquet flooring and simple furniture sets are those interior details that most people try to throw out of the house forever. But there are people who are interested in home improvement this year. historical period. They even get inspiration for creating modern furnishings by looking at photographs of apartments from back then.
Some people like this design
Soviet interior is not very popular
Most people only dream of getting rid of things that are already many years old.
Russian style. Interior and life in the first decades of the USSR
Along with such popular interior styles as baroque, modern, and country, you can put the Russian style, which corresponds to the era of the USSR. Designers often refer to Soviet interior style with the pretentious word “kitsch,” which literally means “a carbon-stamped object of low-quality production.” The beginning of the formation of such a furnishing of premises began in the 20s of the twentieth century and has not yet ended for one simple reason: people who were born and lived most life in a union, cannot accept changes and furnish their home (refrain from alterations), imitating the culture of the times of Brezhnev and Khrushchev.
In the first years after the change of power from imperial to Soviet, people had no time to re-stick wallpaper and rearrange furniture. Urbanization began to occur en masse, and housing shortages became acute. But the authorities, not having the funds to build new houses, decided differently - to turn the former rich houses of the bourgeoisie into dormitories, which to this day are referred to as “communal apartments.” Their main feature there was a common bathroom, kitchen and corridor. In each of living rooms Sometimes there were 5-7 people.
This design can be modernized without any problems.
Some people who lived during the USSR never decided to somehow change their housing
Military operations in the territory former USSR left a mark not only in the memory of people, but also in their everyday life. Lack of money and hunger forced people to give up excesses; the interior of apartments of the post-war period was more than modest.
Cheap furniture was mainly used in such apartments.
Some simply did not have enough money to furnish the apartment
The design gradually changed
The style of the 50-60s in the interior design of Soviet apartments is strikingly different from the decor of previous decades: the population came to its senses after the war destruction and its consequences. Modern designers classify this period as “multifaceted retro,” which is strikingly different from Soviet minimalism. The following elements and solutions are typical for the housing furnishings of this period.
- A large amount of light - massive, bulky and intimidatingly dark curtains have been replaced by light, translucent curtains. Artificial lighting has gone beyond the scope of “just a lamp under the ceiling”; classic cascading chandeliers began to be complemented by wall sconces, floor lamps, and table lamps.
- Color brightness – rich green soft corners, lemon yellow curtains and other original decor unusual shades turned Soviet housing into a mini design studio.
- Multifunctional furniture (sofa-couch, chair-bed, folding table) complemented the interiors of that time due to the shortage of living space.
The only thing that did not express the Soviet interior of the 50-60s against the background of the modern one was the banal wallpaper with stripes or flowers. The furniture upholstery, apart from the bright color, did not express anything against the general background. Textiles helped diversify and decorate the interior. Monochromatic fabrics and fabrics with ornaments were fashionable at that time. Even today, in the apartments of people whose youth passed in the 60s of the last century, you can find bedspreads with the following ornaments: plant motifs, geometric patterns, simple linen decorations in the form chessboard, Christmas trees, squares.
In those days, design was boring and monochromatic
Some people's apartments still haven't been updated
It may seem to the younger generation that in the USSR, regardless of the decade (40s, 50s, 70s), everything in houses was the same. But people who lived in Soviet time, remember the smallest details of the interior well. In the 70s of the last century, there was a breakthrough in architecture - “Brezhnevka” houses began to be built in cities, which had at least 9 floors, equipped with comfortable new items - a garbage chute and an elevator. The authors of the idea themselves called the apartments in such buildings an improved version of “Khrushchev”.
Apartments built in the 70s have from 1 to 5 rooms, low ceilings and a cramped kitchen (7-9 sq.m.). You can partially get acquainted with the interior of the Brezhnevkas when watching the film “Moscow Doesn’t Believe in Tears”: whitewashed ceilings, wallpaper with a geometric pattern or light brown stripes on the walls, birch parquet on the floor. The layout of the living room is simple - against one wall there is a “wall” made of chipboard, opposite it there is a sofa and two armchairs, next to it there is a coffee table or a polished table, which was folded out on holidays. The bedroom also had a sofa, a dressing table and a bulky wardrobe.
In the 70s they began to build houses
The living room is simple - there is a “wall” made of chipboard against one wall, and a sofa opposite it
The bedroom also had a sofa, a dressing table and a bulky wardrobe
In the interiors of the 70s there must be carpets hanging on the walls, there must be fish in the sideboard (the same blue ones that some people still have), and a three-tiered chandelier with “crystal” pendants (made of banal plastic) sparkles under the ceiling. . The walls in apartments of the 70s, and even in the 80s, are decorated with calendars and posters depicting Soviet artists.
In those days everything was monotonous and boring
Calendars and posters were usually hung on the walls
Many items produced during the Soviet period can only be found in abandoned attics or in rare collections. But it’s not only everyday objects that cause surprise or laughter on the faces of young people living in the 21st century. Many things that once seemed fashionable and beautiful to people are now called popular word"shocking" There are 5 items that cause the greatest surprise on the faces of the younger generation.
The first thing that catches your eye when looking at photographs from the USSR period is the carpets on the walls, which rightfully lead in the “Soviet shocking” rating. Canvases depicting deer and still lifes were used for decorative purposes and... to save wallpaper. Also, the reason for the original decoration was cold walls (the role of a heat insulator) and noisy neighbors (the role of a sound insulator).
Soviet design causes laughter or surprise among young people
Soviet design can be modernized
There are a lot of weird things about this design.
The second place of honor in the ranking of shocking items of the Soviet era was sewing machine with foot drives, serving as an “assistant” in needlework and a storage place for shoes. A tablecloth was usually laid over it, after which the device turned into a work table. The third item that can surprise today's schoolchildren is a TV or radio on legs (like a stool).
The fourth position in the rating deservedly goes to openwork napkins, which covered not only the table and chairs, but also the previously mentioned TV and radio. Since the 30s of the last century, openwork, often homemade decoration, has been used as decor for pillows, tops of cabinets and sideboards. The sideboard, or as it is also called, “buffet,” closes the top five. This piece of furniture served as a storage place for services produced by the Leningrad Porcelain Factory (or other holiday tableware), family photographs, and sometimes money. Similar things were put in top part a sideboard with glass inserts in the doors - so that everyone could see the “wealth” of the family; in the lower part of the sideboard, behind the wooden doors, towels, clothes and other valuables were hidden (for example, the forbidden Bible or jars of cucumbers).
The walls were usually decorated with paintings, calendars or posters
The wallpaper was usually striped or floral
Carpets on the floor
When you mention the phrase “carpet in the USSR,” it is wall hangings that immediately come to mind, but floor carpets were no less popular during the Soviet period. Why was their popularity at its peak in the 50-80s of the last century? Yes, simply because they were expensive, and if a family could afford to buy a carpet, it means that it is prosperous and lives in abundance.
We often bought such carpets.
- Pile wool, produced in Turkmenistan. The basis of the ornament of Turkmen carpets is “gel” (diamonds, squares, polygons).
- Pile or lint-free products made in Armenia. The main motif of such carpets is a lotus flower with unfolded petals.
- Silky pile carpets made in Azerbaijan. They are distinguished by unique geometric patterns; the most popular types are “Kazakh”, “Shirvan”, “Cuba”.
In addition to products made in Central Asia, carpets made at the Vneshposyltorg factory (jacquard products with half-wool pile), the Obukhov Carpet Factory (double-sheet pile carpets), and the Almaty Carpet Factory (4-color rod rugs, smooth rod runners) were popular in the USSR.
Photos were usually stored in wall cabinets
The main attractions of the family were usually placed in sideboards and cabinets
Typically, Soviet design was boring and monochromatic
Country, Provence, Art Nouveau - these styles are fed up with people who love unusual experiments. Soviet interior in a modern interpretation is pretentious and original. In one of the rooms or throughout the house you can create an atmosphere from the USSR period of various years. The color combination table will help with this.
Soviet design can be modernized without any problems
Carpets were usually hung on the walls
Conclusion
History, whatever it may be, is the basis of the present. In the USSR, people decorated their homes according to their financial capabilities and the fashion of the time. Today soviet interiors are considered a relic of the past, but it is likely that the fashion for floral wallpaper, bright sofas and colorful carpets on the walls will return.
Modern retro - a second wind
Today, retro wallpaper for walls is full of rich colors, fashionable tones and interesting prints. But the most important thing is the quality of the materials from which they are made. In the old days, most canvases were made of paper, and very quickly lost their appearance. Now, on the contrary, excellent options have appeared on a non-woven base, with vinyl coating, the colors of which do not fade over time, and the ornament has become more expressive and modern. Therefore, we can openly declare that today's retro is a combination of old ideas with the latest technologies currently in production.
Antique wallpaper for walls is increasingly used in the creation of classic interiors, since they can most advantageously emphasize the features of the furnishings and furniture details.
“SDVK-Wallpaper” – inspiration of new ideas
The online store "SDVK-Wallpaper" presents various collections of antique wallpaper from famous manufacturers, photos of which can be seen in the catalog in a special section. Here you will see collections that we ourselves would not refuse to use in our interior.
In addition to the variety of products offered, the site adheres to reasonable pricing policy, so the cost of our goods will pleasantly surprise you.
80s style in the interior, sample from Dixon Gallery
While you are thinking about it in a good or bad light, the 80s style in the interior is coming back into global trends. So now's the time to take a deep dive into the history of the Memphis Design Group, the Italian design and architecture collective whose crazy, colorful, post-modern style defined the overall look of the '80s.
Large surreal sofa by Peter Shire, designed in 1986 and made available on 1st Dibs
Memphis was created by Italian architect and designer Ettor Sottsas in 1980 and named after Bob Dylan's song "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again", which played continuously during the meeting that marked the day the band came into being.
Roman armchair by Marco Zanini for Memphis, featured on 1st Dibs
The design team that Sottsas assembled presented their first collection at Milan's Salone del Mobile in 1981 and continued to produce designs for almost ten years until their demise in 1988.
Flamingo Nightstand by Michael DeLucci
Like most design movements, the Memphis group was a reaction to previous events: Sottsass and his colleagues were tired of the restrained lines and minimal colors of the modernists, which is why they decided to create something completely new.
Their designs were crazy, often consisting of colorful geometric shapes in two-dimensional form, which evoked a playful and even childish feeling.
Memphis Toolkit created by Koyo Sangyo and featured on 1st Dibs
Although not all of these intentionally strange things have found their way into homes. ordinary people, but the Memphis group had a huge influence on 80s interior design. Their unabashed exuberance and penchant for big, eye-catching designs were particularly well suited to the me decade.
Some of them branded elements – bright colors, unusual shapes and a peculiar two-dimensionality represent people's attitude to what the period of the 80s was like for them. As proof, Stacy's dressing style is on the cover of the very first nanny book that Ettore Sottsass would be proud of.
Example of interior design Memphis: showroom of sportswear brand Espirit
Not everyone was a fan. At the time, critics derided the Memphis movement as jokers, a blip on the radar screen that would soon disappear altogether. Even modern critics do not always understand them. For example, Bertrand Pellegrin in a 2012 article for SFGate described the group's work as “a wedding between Bauhaus and Fisher-Price.”
Memphis inspired Camila Velala to create her own exhibition for London Design Week 2015, which featured Velala's own designs displayed side-by-side with a Sottsass Tahiti lamp.
But like many previously reviled design movements, Memphis style is slowly drifting away from the spotlight. The New The York Times predicted their return in 2017, in something of a slow-burn revival.