Furniture of the 1970s refers to the style of furniture popular in the 1970s. Often, the furniture would be laid with bold fabric patterns and colors.[1] Bold designs and prints were also used profusely in other decor.[1] Other design elements found in seventies furniture and interior decorating included the use of the colors brown, purple, orange, and yellow (sometimes all in the same piece of fabric), shag-pile carpet, textured walls, lacquered furniture, gaudy lampshades, lava lamps, and molded plastic furniture.[1]
Another major aspect of seventies furniture is the use of teak wood.[2] The use of teak in fashionable furniture and panelling regained poularity in the 1960s and items became chunkier as it progressed into the seventies. Because of the popularity of wood in homes, dark color palettes also became more widely used as the seventies progressed. In the mid-to-late seventies, pine wood began to replace teak wood, and color palettes became even darker.