‘Retro’,  ‘Vintage’, ‘Mid Century’ and ‘Mid Century Modern’ are terms being used by Retro and Vintage Furniture Stores everywhere. Further, qualifiers such as ‘style’ or ‘design’ are often thrown in either to honestly define a piece or to disguise its lack of authenticity.  Examples are:  ‘Vintage Style’, ‘Retro Style’, ‘Danish Style’, ‘Danish Design’.

To complete the list of casually interchanged phrases we should add ‘Antique’ and ‘Art Deco’.

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