Contemporary Furniture Same as Modern furniture?

[baileyuph]

I hear contemporary and modern used to define the same furniture style. 

Are both terms actually acceptable to use to define furniture styles?

This might be a question for Gene - he has considerable designer contacts.

Is there a style difference between modern furniture and contemporary furniture?

Modern is characteristic of being new. What does contemporary connotate?  Being the same? If that is correct then it probably isn't correct to use the two terms to describe the same furniture style.

I ask but don't know what the feed back will be?  They may ask what I have been smoking.  LOL

Someone who has a designer certificate might relate best to my question(s).

Gene you deal with designers a bit, any input?

Doyle

[Peppy]

Modern is a style. It's been a long time since art school so I forget exactly when it was but say it was the '60s, many people decided to paint (and build furniture and what not) a certain way. That style was termed modern. People may still paint in the modern style but it has nothing to do with when they're doing it. Or it might be an adjective, depending if the person went to artschool or not. Contemporary is the same I imagine.

[baileyuph]

In review, I understand what Peppy is saying with respect to how the term "modern" is used and especially how it applies to furniture styles.  Yes, it is a style, generally meaning one with new ideas compared to old ideas.  It could be old yesterday and today but still be modern relative ancient past.

Then, examining contemporary, it could be with respect to a style, but clarifies that most of the same period  are doing the same. 

Moving to the present, most furniture today is our modernization effects on tables, lamps, etc. and even on a lot of our upholstered furniture.  Then, as consumers today adapt to and decorate with the same furniture adaptions, that degree of sameness makes it contemporary of the time.

All this makes it easier to understand decorator talk. 

Thanks,

Doyle