Brueton Catalog 1992

About the Item

Manufacturer’s ring binder catalog showcasing the 1992 product line for Brueton Furniture, a New York City-based company that produces upscale furniture and accessories for the residential, contract, and hospitality markets. Founded in 1926, Brueton was an early convert to the use of highly crafted stainless steel, still an area of specialty. Along with designs by Stanley Jay Friedman and J. Wade Beam—familiar names in the vintage modern design market—the 1992 catalog includes work by Sergio Orozco, Mark Mascheroni, Mark Goldberg, John Duffy, Mitchell Pickard, Charles Gibilterra, Bert England, Victor Dziekiewicz, Glenn Polinsky, Joseph Gerstman, Bruenu, Richard Thompson, Robert Sonneman, Ed Born, and Ira Grayroff. Stylistically skewed to post-modern, the catalog also features clean-lined international style pieces plus reissues of several classic modern designs by Hans and Wassily Luckhardt and Mies van der Rohe. 4to, plastic binder with approximately 210 loose sheets with full color photos backed by product specifications, plus perforated tear sheets (all still complete) in the following categories: seating, lounge seating, high tables, low tables, case goods, and accessories. With fold-outs containing leather samples in a range of color ways, solid and metallic paint samples from Dupont, and photo images of stone options. A valuable resource for architects, designers, collectors, and end users, or anyone wanting to document or refurbish Brueton furnishings. Minor rubbing to binder. Light foxing to only first and last leaf. A few detached pages, and a few duplicate pages.

Creator:

Brueton (Manufacturer)

Dimensions:

Height: 12 in (30.48 cm)Width: 10 in (25.4 cm)Depth: 3 in (7.62 cm)

Style:

Post-Modern (Of the Period)

Materials and Techniques:

Paper,Plastic

Place of Origin:

United States

Period:

1990-1999

Date of Manufacture:

1992

Condition:

Wear consistent with age and use. Minor rubbing to binder and light foxing to first and last leafs. A few loose pages. Otherwise fine.

Seller Location:

New York, NY

Reference Number:

1stDibs: LU828531075182

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Initially known as Spanish Metal Arts — a supplier of fencing for stately homes on Long Island — the principals at New York furniture manufacturer Brueton were artistically minded from the start, ensuring that their furniture company would become a major player in the world of stylish, modern stainless steel-based design. The company’s sculptural glass-topped dining tables and vintage mid-century modern chrome-framed armchairs are welcome additions to any contemporary interior.

Brueton got its start with the Manufacturers Hanover Trust building in Manhattan. When award-winning architect Gordon Bunshaft of engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) was designing what would become a modernist marvel in the 1950s — a structure that traded sleek glass facades for the stone columns typically associated with banks — SOM worked with Spanish Metal Arts’s Bruno Saudino and Tony Vitale to furnish the property.

For Bruno and Tony, it marked the start of the aptly named Brueton — the pair produced understated side tables and seating made of glass and aluminum for SOM’s project. Revolutionary for its time, instead of traditional narrow windows, the Manufacturers Hanover Trust building was practically transparent — allowing passers-by to see the vault from the outside. (Celebrated photographer Ezra Stoller, who chronicled iconic New York buildings like Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building and the soaring silhouette of Eero Saarinen’s TWA Terminal, shot the building in 1954.)

Much like the material associated with so many of its offerings, Brueton built a reputation of being a strong, dependable and polished manufacturer. The brand worked with designers such as J. Wade Beam, who created cylindrical tables of polished chrome and exquisite marble mirrors during the 1970s, as well as Massimo and Lella Vignelli, a pair of innovative polymaths who left a profound mark on design and wider visual culture.

On 1stDibs, find vintage Brueton case pieces and storage cabinets, tables and seating on 1stDibs.