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Mid Century Modern Show

"20th Century Cincinnati"

Cincinnati, Ohio

The "20th Century Cincinnati" Mid-Century Modernism Show celebrated it's 19th Anniversary. The Show took place February 23rd and 24th 2013 at the Sharonville Convention Center in Cincinnati, Ohio. We have attended this show for the past four years and have seen the number of vendors and attendees increase each year. The Convention Center has also grown in size due to a total remake and expansion two years ago. It is a very nice facility

What is Mid-Century Modernism... according to Wikipedia, "Modernism", in it's broadcast definition, is modern thought, character or practice. More specifically, the term describes the modernist movement in arts, its set of cultural tendencies and associated cultural movements, originally arising from wide-scale far reaching changes to Western Society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries... "Mid-Century Modern" includes modern architecture, interior, product and graphic designs that generally describes mid-20th century development... from 1933 to 1965"
 

Included in the Mid-Century Modernism period is the Art-Deco movement. The Art Deco period began in France as Art Nuevo in the early 1920's and by the late 1920's the movement has started to influence Western Designs. The Western Art Deco period lasted well into the 1940's. Gordon Buehrig's 1935 and 1936 Auburn Speedster that we so admire, emphasizes the beauty and thoughts of the Art Deco era all too well