Which era was the most aesthetic? I'm going with the 1940s.

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The 2010's is the most aesthetical decade because it can contain pretty much every aesthetic throughout history. The 1940's didn't have the aesthetics inherent to later times but present time can contain any aesthetic up to this point insofar as they are preserved. In short, as long as past aesthetics are preserved, present time will always be the most aesthetic.
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>>2990919

Late 19th/early 20th century, 1970s/80s(60 got nice music, but aestheticly its puke)

>>2990991
Agreed, psychedelia is a meme.
The return of art nouveau style in the 70's is pretty underrated

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The 1960s.

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In the modern era, I would say that the '20s were the most pristine, with Art Deco and whatnot, but the '70s are my personal favorite. I love the wood paneling, the naturalistic word-fonts, the traditional furniture that looks straight out of a log cabin, the shag carpets, the constant use of trapezoidal forms, the warm autumn colors, all the American bicentennial stuff, all the early environmental awareness stuff, and songs that sound like this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upIlhve5r-g

I also love the architecture of the '70s. It was going through a transition between mid-century modernism and the cancerous Postmodern/Neo-eclectic/McMansion era of today. Houses were still built modestly and strong, cheap construction only occurred on tract houses, EIFS wasn't used as an actual building material yet and was pretty rarely employed at that, and vinyl siding would still remain extremely uncommon until the following decade. In America, a lot of '70s architecture essentially consists of basic modernistic forms decorated with rustic features that are typical of Colonial-era styles and old rural vernacular architecture. Relating to this, the '70s were also the height of simple mansard roofs being used on absolutely everything, which was a trend that exploded in popularity in the '60s as a reaction against practically everything that came out of the '50s. Mansard roofs were sometimes used in pretty abominable ways, but most of the time, they looked pretty nice. Pic related is a '70s-incarnate commercial building that I'm creating in SketchUp right now.

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>>2990707
>1940's for Germany
>1960's for the USA

>>2990982
Ceci n'est pas un argument.

>>2990919
That's like saying the world is the same as it was in 1910 because 1910 happened

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>>2991235
I love professional-grade '60s photography.

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>>2991374

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>>2991391

>>2991200
The 70s look is so mind boggling un-aesthetic that is somewhat charming. But no, you're entirely off base. It is hideous.

>>2991374
Really ugly. Also, things still looked like that in the 90s if you drove an old car up to it. And it was still ugly then.

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>>2991397

>>2990919
It looks contrasting and unharmonious
Is this what multiculturalists think beautiful?

>>2991400
>The 70s look is so mind boggling un-aesthetic that is somewhat charming. But no, you're entirely off base. It is hideous.
>what are opinions

>things still looked like that in the 90s if you drove an old car up to it
First of all, why point out the '90s specifically?
Second of all, are you really trying to tell me that just because you could drive a '60s car up to a '60s shopping mall in the '90s, everything would have looked exactly the same despite the massive changes in graphic design, technology, fashion, and everything else that were completely apparent everywhere you looked?

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80's had some real nice aesthetics going on, even if its been memed to death.

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>>2991536
Damn right my man.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DZz3y6r-5H8

>>2991565
>>2991536
>it's a retards confusing 80s movies and music videos with actual 80s life episode
Every time

>>2991724
It's just emblematic of the time you fucking autist.

>>2991737
It really isn't, it outright didn't exist out of popular media.

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>>2990707
Belle époque.

Art Deco
:^)

>>2991755
>Art Deco was an era

>>2991772
>>2991772
I gave the date you fuck
:^)

>>2991798
That's not a nice way to talk to people.

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>>2991740
>he thinks people didnt do blow and drive around in porsches listening to giorgio moroder in the 80s

LOL

>>2991808
And my favorite is when 20-something shitters think vaporwave is an 80s aesthetic when it's so mid 90s it hurts.

>>2991323
The political, economical, social landscapes have changed, border changes have taken place, new countries have been formed, conflicts have been resolved, others have been initiated but I don't see how your analogy applies. I haven't said that today's aesthetics are the same as those of the 1910's, I don't see how your comparison applies.

>>2991418
Contrasting sure, but I don't find it unharmonious.
Also, why do you bring up multiculturalists? Are you saying that picture of Osaka shows multiculturalism?

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>>2991745

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Why, the 20s, of course.

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>>2991850

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>>2991822
cool opinion dude

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>>2991855

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>>2991724
We're talking about the general pop cultural zeitgeist or "aesthetic" of an era, you gigantic autist.

>>2991190
I fucking hate that room

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>>2992037
Time to post more neat examples of 80's design

>>2991235

Fuck yeah I love ancient IBM

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just before the first world war

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>>2992076
I take it you like Streamline Moderne.

>>2992331
Looks like my local train station.

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>>2992342
Bretty cool shit.

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>>2992355

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1810s: pride and prejudice, byron, frankenstein, the vampyre, beethoven
1850s: unironic wearing of stovepipe tophats, aesthetic engineering, Dickens, qt dresses, great exhibition
late 1880s (1860s in America) to early 1890s: industrial marvels, sherlock holmes, aesthetic trains, gilded age, belle epoch, the wild west
mid 20s: metropolis, don't know what's coming, speakeasies, roaring 20s
40s to 50s: the horror of the war and holocaust then cold war paranoia combined with wartime propaganda and 50s PSAs style postwar optimism, nonbeta fedoras, kino cartoons, neat comics
60s: moon landings, hippies, explosion in music, counterculture, a flurry of good movies

from this point on different cultures and subcultures had their time, can't really put a pin on anything

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>>2991190

I love me some Mid-Century Modern!

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>>2992436
It's hard to find pictures of buildings in that specific style, because the only name I've ever heard it referred to by is just "Contemporary", which is what Field Guide to American Houses calls it. My favorite mid-century modern style is second-wave International.

>>2990707
Pre-historic, anon.

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>>2992669

There is a lot more emphasis on "Googie" or "Raygun Retro" which is a more over-the-top variant of MCM. Pic related.

But I also like the nice clean International Style of the 1960s, especially in the fonts and colors they chose for lettering.

Imma hip you a site you can get lost in just looking at vintage commercial pics of that era. Enjoy

http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com

>>2994305
Pleasantfamilyshopping is where those picture of Dixie Square Mall are from.

http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com/2009/01/before-they-drove-old-dixie-down.html

>>2991208
>1940's germany
Have you seen any fucking building built by the nazis? I know it's a meme to hate on brutalism but they're ugly

>>2991843
>Are you saying that picture of Osaka shows multiculturalism?
I'm not that guy but yes, it clearly does. Are you saying those buildings have nothing to do with western culture?

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>>2994483

Surprised how much of its still standing
http://www.thirdreichruins.com/

>>2994544

well a lot of those things can only be demolished with dynamite

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60s, for sure. Brutalism is great, I don't get why you nerds hate it so much.

Early roman empire. Obviously...

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>>2994483
I find it kind of endearing in a non-comfy, yet powerful sort of way.

>>2991822

Really? My favorite is when crabby old dipshits think vaporwave is a monolithic aesthetic and not a vague bundling of other subgenres encapsulating the late 80s to late 90s

>>2991472
Because I grew up in the 90s, surrounded by 60s-70s architecture. It is ugly as sin.

>>2996680
Did anyone here NOT grow up around architecture from the '60s and '70s? It can be ugly every once in a while, but most of it looks perfectly fine.

>>2990919
Absolutely sickening

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>>2990707
1900-1910.

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>>2992062
I really wish this line of design had stuck. We could've been like Blade Runner by now.
instead we got the gay 90's and now the Scandinavian minimalism meme.

>>2995280
Brutalism look cold and scary

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cartoon network

>>2997460

buck the trend then my good man

>>2991190
Nope. The sixties are an disgusting puke stain between the futuristic sleekness of the 1950s and the gaudy ostentatiousness of the 1970s.