Post #300643 by bigbrotiki on Fri, Apr 20, 2007 9:53 AM

On 2007-04-20 08:08, Hula Cat wrote:
...those many years (being I'm 60) of fishing and antique dealing also make it a bit harder to wrap myself around something from the 70's or 80's being vintage....

Certainly true for Tiki. But you have that impression also because you're in America, where the heyday of consumption, and innovative modern design for it, was the 50s and 60s, and the 70s sort of went either alternative or totally tacky (followed by the browning of America in the 80s), while Europe was taking over in the design innovation field.

In Europe, there is a bigger antique collectors' market for 70s designed objects, because there is more of that available than stuff from the 50s, where they were still affected by the war, and the economic growth was less exuberant than in the U.S. at the time. That is talking in General terms, of course, there is also some great stuff from these decades on both continents.