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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;verybrad, post: 9487514, member: 37&quot;]60s often gets lumped in with MCM.&nbsp; There was certainly a carry-over of the style into the 60s.&nbsp; A lot of modern furniture was produced for the masses during this time frame.&nbsp; Have to remember that the colonial furniture craze was still going strong at the same time.&nbsp; By the 70s, tastes had changed pretty drastically.&nbsp;&nbsp; Colonial was waning but not completely dead.&nbsp; Modern furniture was still produced in Europe and Scandinavia so you do see some of that.&nbsp;&nbsp; Metals, plastics, and smoked glass furniture was big so not much like the MCM furniture. The Mediterranean/Spanish look ruled the day.</p><p><br /></p><p>This is also when antiques began to take off.&nbsp; People began to appreciate the old and the refinishing craze took off.&nbsp; People were stripping paint applied in the 40s and 50s.&nbsp; The antiqueing kit paint look from the 60s became passe&#039;.&nbsp; Golden oak began to be valued.&nbsp; Prices for the best antique furniture hit new peaks.&nbsp; This was the beginning of a good 35+ year run for the antiques business.&nbsp; Sadly, it all came to an end with the financial crisis in 2008.&nbsp; I can&#039;t really pinpoint why tastes changed so drastically then but the business is only now really beginning to recover.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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