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Modern style

An imprecise term that often includes Contemporary style and Shed style.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of Architecture and Construction. Copyright © 2003 by McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
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"Also the transatlantic connection, we are very much like a modern style odd couple, completely different on first impressions but actually we've got an awful lot in common."
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I think we can have our own distinct modern style. All it takes is an open mind as it calls on updating our culture and tradition.
MODERNIZING TRADITION
This means that there is a good choice of styles, everything from high backed ornate beds that fit in well with a bedroom decorated in chintz to basic square bed frames that work best with more modern styles of decor.
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The developer's architect responded to this article saying that it had originally proposed a replica Georgian-style building but this was rejected by Liverpool planners who decreed it should be in modern style.
We didn't want replicas
SHOW-STOPPING APPEAL: Andrei Protsouk will celebrate 10 years at Artexpo with a new painting titled "Walking Talking" from the artist's new "New York Collection." The modern style painting was created specifically for the show as well as a special, never-before seen limited edition.
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We look to the modern style of the 1940s and 1950s for ideas.
Soft + Modern: in an excerpt from their new coffee-table book let's get comfortable, Mitchell Gold and Bob Williams show you how to create an easy modern look
"The KWV doesn't control the industry the way it used to, and young winemakers are pursuing a more modern style, with nice fruit."
Cape time: South African wine in perspective
I predict the next issue for the hierarchy will be an index of music barring any composition of modern style.
Minds of the faithful
Featuring vibrant, full-page color photographs, this volume takes readers on a tour of 25 homes that exemplify the Pacific Modern style of architecture.
Pacific Modern
She alone has definitely found the modern style. Berlin will soon possess a series of buildings that typify the age.
Modern Berlin: in his column 'Letter from Berlin' in November 1928, Oscar Bie reviewed the city's new architecture--both retrogressive and progressive
It's an interesting parallel, because jazz came in at the same time as the Modern style in architecture, and both have continued, but with convolutions and changes of style, up to the present time.
Philip Johnson

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