The eighties and nineties are not exactly known as decades of good taste.
Too much color, too much plush, too much plastic - these are the impressions that have remained from this time and that have recently reappeared, for example in the bachelorette property of pop star Miley Cyrus, which also has the “Carlton” shelf in Memphis -Founder Ettore Sottsass from 1981 can no longer be saved.
The villa is so cluttered with neon and animal print decor.
It is often forgotten that in the past two decades of the past century there was already a counter-movement to the horror vacui. Completely different from the nouveau riche neo-baroque à la Trump, neon pop and Martha Stewart's country house style, the minimalism of yuppie modernism with its spacious lofts and penthouses was characterized by a penchant for Feng Shui and Zen Buddhism. What was expressed in fashion through the straightforward designs of Jil Sanders, Helmut Langs and Calvin Klein was also found in architecture and interior design.
After all, the stock market boom of these decades and the approaching turn of the millennium also favored the era of star architects, who created spectacular monumental buildings made of glass, steel and titanium.
Frank Gehry's Guggenheim Museum in Bilbao dates from this period.
The building has so upgraded the city that with the Bilbao effect, a name was directly invented for the architectural tourism that it justified.
IM Pei designed light museum palaces, including the Louvre pyramid, Peter Zumthor the Term Vals and the Kunsthaus Bregenz, while Shigeru Ban built the Wall-less House, a weightless, monochrome glass structure that could have come from the future.
And architects like Renzo Piano, Rem Koolhaas, Zaha Hadid and Axel Vervoordt have become icons during this time.
"American Psycho" embodies the style
The closer the millennium approached, the more the smooth, perfectionist aesthetic found its way into the interior design. The Bauhaus came back, supplemented by new materials such as polycarbonate and steel. The style of this time is still best embodied in Patrick Bateman's film apartment from "American Psycho", which with its clear lines and muted colors, with "Barcelona" armchairs and minimalist contemporary pieces, creates a catharsis of the previous floral plush Color kitsch depicted. Perhaps this development was fueled by the fact that Philippe Starck made good design suitable for the masses in the 1990s with his citrus press for Alessi or the Louis Ghost Chair for Kartell.
The yuppie modernity is just reviving. Many style elements from this period come back after decades - even if minimalism has been doomed for years. It is not for nothing that the pictures of Kanye West and Kim Kardashian's house from last year - created by the aforementioned Axel Vervoordt - are reminiscent of the monochrome of the 1990s. But not only the white and beige palette, materials and designs from this time can also be seen again.