The trippy, eco-driven designs of the 1970s are back—and more sophisticated than ever.

Though nostalgic motifs have been trending since the start of the pandemic, it’s the designs of the 1970s that are making a major comeback in present-day interiors. “We’re entering a new era of design that favors quality over quantity,” says Jaye Anna Mize, vice president of home and lifestyle at trend forecasting agency FS. “Younger generations are more sustainability minded, and 1970s-inspired designs combine heritage with contemporary elements, while introducing the concept of biophilia in the home.” Data backs up the era’s surging appeal: “Searches for ‘1970’ are up 12 percent year over year on 1stDibs,” says the platform’s editorial director Anthony Barzilay Freund.

The ’70s ran the aesthetic gamut, starting with the space-age styles of the late 1960s all the way to disco-inspired designs and hippie-friendly bohemian looks that rounded out the decade’s later years. “Though the period was stylistically diverse, natural materials like bamboo, rattan and a palette of deep mineral tones—burnt orange, mustard yellow, warm browns and greens—reigned supreme,” says Freund. “The furniture was curvaceous and a bit audacious, breaking with the rigidity of high modernism that had defined the preceding decades.”