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I think that beige chair behind the piano looks pretty 90's....

Yep, the room looks really dated. The two lamps flanking the sofa are Tom Corbin bronze lamps that are actually pretty recent; I would say that this project had a lot of existing furniture that they spruced up with some new things in the past couple of years. The architecture of the room look awesome though...it seems like it is a 1950s home.

I'm going to say 90s. The preponderance of beige, the glass coffee table supported by metal spheres...yep, that's my guess.

I say it's now because I don't think MCM was so chic in the 90s.

Definately the 90's:

The angled rugs, terracotta jug in the iron stand, blade-back lounge chair, torchiere and glass slab on brass spheres are so last decade...

I voted "now". Seems like I just saw this room in a magazine the other day!

Not assertive enough to be 90's or recent, so I'm going with the 80's, the decade of "play it safe" beige. The house has lovely bones, though.

Are those gas logs in the fireplace? It has that very controlled look--those are pretty recent, aren't they?

if i could get a good look at the sofa, i'd know for sure... the club chair looks very donghia... the corbin torchières... my guess is late '80s or very early '90s, which leaves me in a quandry...

I went with 90s this time

One more vote for 1990's.

I think it is the 90's. No reason, just a feeling.

i voted for june 12th, 1989.

still the 80's but definitely dipping a toe into the early 90's.

70's or 80's, take a good look at those overhead lights. My parents put those up in the 80's

The rug and the coffee table scream '90s.

1974

And NO, it doesn't look dated!

Isn't that a free-standing tall ashtray at this end of the couch? That would be very 70's!

tom corbin started making bronzes in 1986... don't know the date of those lamps though, but i do remember seeing them in met home...

I think what may be mistaken for a free standing ashtray is a ceramic stool. There's another one by the fireplace.

I don't know - I think I'm going with "now."

I think late 80's.

We associate these design elements with the 90's when this style became mainstream, but I think this place was a bit ahead of its time. This would have been leading edge design back then, and thus worthy of a magazine spread.

Evidence:
-The Corbin lamps/ Medallion torchiere would have just come out recently
-The Barcelona chair got a MOMA award in the late 70's and a resurgence throughout the 80's
- Donghia became a rising star in the late 80's and I agree with Monika1, that looks like one of their club chairs
-the MR-16 lights would have been leading-edge in the 80's
-primitive art started becoming popular around that time.

I guessed 90s based on the scale of the chair behind the piano and possibly, the sofa (though hard to see). Everything started to supersize in the early 90s, as I recall.

Sorry...those are Mies Van Der Rohe chairs (circa 1929) and the house design seems inspired by Frank Lloyd Wright, so I go with 1950's with the couch in there.

Honestly, though, it could be almost any era after 1929.

just an fyi -

apologies to the two commenters, but i took down two comments from the thread this morning that listed the exact source of the photo - only because it's more fun for the folks just seeing the post today to be able to really "guess".

i'll be posting the source info along with the decade later today...

thanks!

The lamps make it look now to me.

80s.

Bronze lamps terracotta glass table-top/speres freestanding ashtray = seventies.

I look forward to seeing the answer and source for this picture.

Something about this reminds me of the living room in the show Family Affair (w/Buffy, Jody, Uncle Bill & Mr. French. Sissy too).