Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
The late 19th and early 20th centuries saw sweeping social change and major scientific advances — both of which contributed to a new aesthetic: modernism. Rejecting the rigidity of Victorian artistic conventions, modernists sought a new means of expression. References to the natural world and ornate classical embellishments gave way to the sleek simplicity of the Machine Age. Architect Philip Johnson characterized the hallmarks of modernism as “machine-like simplicity, smoothness or surface [and] avoidance of ornament.”
Early practitioners of modernist design include the De Stijl (“The Style”) group, founded in the Netherlands in 1917, and the Bauhaus School, founded two years later in Germany.
Followers of both groups produced sleek, spare designs — many of which became icons of daily life in the 20th century. The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics. While Bauhaus principals Marcel Breuer and Ludwig Mies van der Rohe created furniture from mass-produced, chrome-plated steel, American visionaries like Charles and Ray Eames worked in materials as novel as molded plywood and fiberglass. Today, Breuer’s Wassily chair, Mies van der Rohe’s Barcelona chair — crafted with his romantic partner, designer Lilly Reich — and the Eames lounge chair are emblems of progressive design and vintage originals are prized cornerstones of collections.
It’s difficult to overstate the influence that modernism continues to wield over designers and architects — and equally difficult to overstate how revolutionary it was when it first appeared a century ago. But because modernist furniture designs are so simple, they can blend in seamlessly with just about any type of décor. Don’t overlook them.
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Gold, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Czech Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Stainless Steel
2010s Mexican Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
2010s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Cut Glass, Murano Glass
2010s British Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Art Glass, Blown Glass
2010s Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
2010s Swedish Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Resin
2010s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Art Glass, Blown Glass
2010s Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass, Bronze
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Clay, Ceramic, Porcelain
1990s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal, Aluminum
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Other
2010s German Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass, Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Crystal, Gold Leaf
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Crystal, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Gold
2010s Danish Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum, Brass
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
2010s Danish Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Iron, Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Crystal, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Crystal, Brass
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass, Nickel, Enamel, Bronze
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass, Bronze, Enamel, Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
2010s Pakistani Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Ash, Bentwood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Plastic
2010s Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Plaster
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Crystal, Gold Leaf
2010s Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
2010s Unknown Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Ash, Bentwood
21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Steel
2010s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Alabaster, Brass