Carpeting doesn’t line up well with contemporary styles, and while rugs are used, they’re often used as accent patterns or colors. (iStock / Getty Images Plus) Wanting a home that looks stylish and ...

Contemporary interior style was a natural evolution of midcentury-modern aesthetics and was first coined as its own term around the 1970s. Signifying a mix of predominant styles at the time, it ...

These and other products came out of the short-lived but prolific German design school founded in 1919 by architect Walter Gropius; it was later led by architects Hannes Meyer and Ludwig Mies van der ...