The mid in fake midcentury modern
World Wars 1 & 2 happened, shattering the remaining sense of aesthetic unity we had<p>that was followed by modernism which purity spiraled into the ubiquitous glass box, which was then followed by a post-modernist surface-level, purely negative rejection of modernism<p>the post-modernists were unable to return to any pre-modern sense of aesthetics due to their ideological commitment to the ur modernist impulse of pride (called innovation)<p>recommended reading:<p><a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Bauhaus_to_Our_House" rel="nofollow">https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/From_Bauhaus_to_Our_House</a><p>it is interesting to note that even individual aesthetic disasters like victorian homes, when combined in a neighborhood with common roof-lines, etc. form a charming aesthetic that has been singularly unachievable except in ersatz form since...  deep questions of cultural unity lurk here...