单词 | populuxe |
释义 | Populuxen.adj. U.S. A. n. A style of architecture, home furnishings, and automobile design characterized by futuristic shapes and ornamentation and often incorporating chrome and synthetic materials, primarily associated with the 1950s and 1960s. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [noun] > types of furniture generally wainscot1589 oak1829 casework1855 Chippendalism1880 Queen Anne1883 Colonial Revival1889 mission furniture1900 Bombay furniture1910 Chinese Chippendale1922 Danish modern1948 patio furniture1969 Populuxe1986 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [noun] architecturea1701 style1777 Populuxe1986 1986 T. Hine Populuxe 4 The essence of Populuxe is not merely having things. It is having things in a way that they've never been had before, and it is an expression of outright, thoroughly vulgar joy in being able to live so well. 1996 Salmagundi (Electronic ed.) Summer He sits in his barber's chair, pumps it (an ancient green Nardo, from St. Louis, a finned beaut from the golden age of populuxe) to its kingliest height. 2003 N.Y. Times 12 Jan. ix. 1 By the end of the 1950's..the V-8 was as much a symbol of American Populuxe as the split-level home or the television set. B. adj. Of or designating the style or period of Populuxe. ΘΚΠ society > inhabiting and dwelling > inhabited place > a building > furniture and fittings > [adjective] > types of furniture generally standing1444 plush1615 Queen Elizabeth1673 occasional1749 Adametic1774 French-polished1836 upholstered1837 Adamish1838 Chippendale1855 Queen Anne1863 knock-down1875 Wellington chest1880 Adamesque1881 Sheraton1883 Hepplewhite1897 quaint1897 bombé1904 lowboy1915 Jacobean1918 overstuffed1922 spool1928 Williamsburg1931 thermed1952 stackable1958 Scandinavian1959 wall-to-wall1959 Populuxe1986 society > leisure > the arts > visual arts > architecture > style of architecture > [adjective] > other styles florida1706 massive1723 rounded1757 round-arched1782 castellar1789 baronial1807 rational1813 English colonial1817 massy1817 transitional1817 Scottish Baronial1829 rococo1830 flamboyant1832 Scotch Baronial1833 Churrigueresque1845 Russo-Byzantine1845 soaring1849 trenchant1849 vernacular1857 Scots Baronial1864 baroque1867 Perp.1867 rayonnant1873 Dutch colonial1876 Neo-Grec1878 rococoesque1885 Richardsonian1887 federal1894 organic1896 confectionery1897 European-style1907 postmodern1916 Lutyens1921 modern1927 moderne1928 functionalist1930 Williamsburg1931 Colonial Revival1934 packing case1935 Corbusian1936 lavatorial1936 pseudish1938 Adamesque1942 rationalist1952 Miesian1956 open-planned1958 Lutyensesque1961 façade1962 Odeon1964 high-tech1979 Populuxe1986 1986 N.Y. Times 29 Oct. c22/2 The ways in which the populuxe esthetic appropriated (and often debased) modernist ideas and motifs. 1992 J. Stern & M. Stern Encycl. Pop Culture 168/1 By the time America's buying frenzy hit full stride in the Populuxe era after World War II, Harley Earl's giddy designs helped make Motor City products a paragon of the materialistic enthusiasms of a growing consumer society. 2003 Film Comment Mar.–Apr. 52/1 Far From Heaven reproduces not only those crane shots and slow fades from the Sirk film but also its Populuxe interiors. This is a new entry (OED Third Edition, December 2006; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.adj.1986 |
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