The Bauhaus movement, which combined the artistic and the industrial, was popular in Europe and America for a time. It strove for functionality and clean lines, and this brought favorable attention to Ming furniture, which expresses much the same ideals though in different ways. Ming furniture was called "timelessly modern."
集藝術與工業於一身的包浩斯主義在歐美盛行一時，講求實用功能以及明快線條；有異曲同工之妙的明式傢具就這樣受到青睞，被稱為具有「永恆的現代感」。