Mid-century, mid century or midcentury?

[JemIsMyNameNooneElseIsTheSame]

Preceding 'furniture'. I don't think there's a definitive answer for this, but which do you favour and why? Need to make a swift decision for branding for my new business. TIA!

[Addley]

Mid-century for me.

David Crystal is interesting on this, in Making A Point.

[JemIsMyNameNooneElseIsTheSame]

I'm thinking the same Addley, but visually 'midcentury' would work much better for my logo. Not sure if I can let the aesthetics win!

[finnthepink]

First or last.

Last option tends to be more US English but you could use it if you really wanted to.

[Golondrina]

I would say that if it precedes a noun then it would be hypenated: mid-century furniture. Because it's a compound adjective.

[finnthepink]

Yes, but there's an ongoing trend in the US towards no hyphen so it's not incorrect as such (not that I like it). Well, this is pedants' corner

[VintagePerfumista]

It looks wrong in any case because hypens aside, surely you need to specify which century?

[VintagePerfumista]

hyphens even.

[finnthepink]

It's the name of a specific style though, mid-century modern.