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My wife shares your love for Mid-century ranch style and tiny houses.
Weird is there some common trait in the styles or is it just design fetishism. Both deal with spaces with multiple uses.
I think it has something to do with deliberate design with purpose. MCM was actually a very strong purpose driven design movement with a hard perspective. The same can definitely be said of the prefab movement and things like shipping containers as homes. Both place a premium on both functional design and aesthetic (at least in the majority of the lustful prefab homes I've seen), even if the scale is different and the objectives of the design are different. Both have kind of a 'top down' design philosophy where everything flows from purpose.