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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass, Steel, Chrome
2010s Indian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Marble
2010s British Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Glass
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Iron
2010s British Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal, Brass, Stainless Steel
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Chrome
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
2010s Mexican Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Copper
2010s Mexican Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Copper
1960s Unknown Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
2010s Mexican Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Copper
2010s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
1960s French Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Ceramic
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Iron
1990s German Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Crystal, Gold Leaf, Brass
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Copper, Iron
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Opaline Glass, Plaster
1930s Italian Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Art Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Iron
1980s Spanish Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Blown Glass
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Murano Glass
2010s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Glass
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal, Enamel, Chrome
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum
2010s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Glass
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum, Brass, Steel
2010s Portuguese Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
1950s Italian Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Glass
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum, Brass, Steel
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum, Brass, Steel
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum, Brass, Steel
2010s Scandinavian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum, Brass, Nickel
2010s American Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Aluminum, Brass, Steel
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
2010s Palestinian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Blown Glass
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass, Nickel
2010s Portuguese Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal, Brass
2010s Indian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
2010s Portuguese Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
2010s Portuguese Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Bronze
2010s Portuguese Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Travertine, Metal, Brass, Copper, Nickel
2010s Indian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
20th Century Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Glass
2010s Portuguese Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
2010s Indian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Art Glass, Blown Glass
2010s Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Art Glass, Blown Glass
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
20th Century Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Blown Glass