Retro style makes splash in holiday decorations

Midcentury and 1970s’80s motifs are strong players on the home decor stage — including holiday accessories. These retro styles have a different kind of energy from traditional holiday decorations.

No deep and evocative snowy forests here; no minimalist yet rustic urban farmhouses or hyggeinducing fairy lights.

Instead, you’ll find more of a sparkly, giddy vibe. This look is all about the holiday party; Santa’s riding a rocket instead of a sleigh; and the family tree might be tinsel instead of pine.

There are reproductions of vintage ornaments — lots of geometric, teardrop and onion shapes — as well as stars, sputniks, dancing elves and even the occasional dancing Christmas tree.

In the ’70s-inspired collections, there are trees, figures and ornaments encrusted with mirrored mosaics, like disco balls.

The Lil Umbrella studio in Concord, Calif., has wrapping paper printed with retro ornaments in a very midcentury palette of aqua, red, white and gold

The studio’s owner, Susie Ostrowski, wanted to create holiday wrap that’s whimsical and fun.

Artist Robin Soltis and her husband, Alvin, run Scotch & Cream, a Los Angeles studio they bill as “all things modern, beautiful, nostalgic, familiar and comforting.”

Soltis laser-cuts ornaments out of solid wood so they have an interesting tactile quality.

“Our wood ornaments are a fun throwback to the vintage baubles from midcentury Christmastime,” she says. “We hand-stain each piece of wood a dark warm shade that reminds us of the quality materials that were used ...”