Lifestyle, Then and Now

I recently learned of the existence of the Lifestyle Market. I had sensed it was there, of course, but not as so formalized an entity. What the Lifestyle Market is, according to “Lifestyle Notebook,” a supplement to a recent issue of Casual Living: The Magazine of Leisure Products, is people who buy “lifestyle furniture”?a product that is “affordable, mobile, and above all, fashionable.” The members of the Lifestyle Market are “more mobile and not so totally committed to one home location. Their relationships are not necessarily ‘forever’… “Lifestyle Notebook” tells us, “so why should their furniture be?”

What does lifestyle furniture look like? &#...