Antique African Wood School
Late 20th Century German Country Prints
Canvas, Wood, Paper
Vintage 1970s German Country Posters
Canvas, Wood, Paper
1910s Post-Impressionist Figurative Paintings
Canvas, Oil, Board
2010s Spanish Modern Centerpieces
Wood
Late 19th Century Realist Landscape Paintings
Oil
Early 20th Century French Paintings
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Early 20th Century Dutch Paintings
Wood, Giltwood
2010s Spanish Modern Tables
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Tables
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Tables
Stone
2010s Spanish Modern Tables
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Tables
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Tables
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Side Tables
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Tables
Metal
2010s Spanish Modern Benches
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Side Tables
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Benches
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Side Tables
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Tables
Fabric, Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Cabinets
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Benches
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Benches
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Benches
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Slate
2010s Spanish Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
2010s Spanish Modern Benches
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Benches
Upholstery, Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Benches
Wood, Upholstery
2010s Spanish Post-Modern Tables
Olive, Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Stools
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Benches
Metal
2010s Spanish Modern Stools
Wood
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Stools
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Stools
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Stools
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Stools
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Floor Lamps
Stone
Vintage 1930s British Modern Paintings
Glass, Wood, Paper
2010s Spanish Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Console Tables
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Table Lamps
Stone
2010s Spanish Modern Figurative Sculptures
Stone
2010s Spanish Modern Abstract Sculptures
Stone
2010s Spanish Modern Figurative Sculptures
Stone
2010s Spanish Modern Figurative Sculptures
Stone
2010s Spanish Modern Figurative Sculptures
Stone
2010s Spanish Modern Figurative Sculptures
Stone
2010s Spanish Modern Abstract Sculptures
Clay
2010s Spanish Modern Abstract Sculptures
Enamel
2010s Spanish Modern Abstract Sculptures
Clay
2010s Spanish Modern Figurative Sculptures
Stone
2010s Spanish Modern Abstract Sculptures
Enamel
2010s Spanish Modern Abstract Sculptures
Enamel
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A Close Look at modern Furniture
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.
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