Modern Music Stands
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
2010s American Modern Music Stands
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Music Stands
Oak, Walnut
2010s American Modern Music Stands
Brass
2010s American Modern Music Stands
Brass
2010s Danish Modern Music Stands
Steel
1990s French Modern Music Stands
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Music Stands
Walnut
2010s Danish Modern Music Stands
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Music Stands
Pine
2010s Danish Modern Music Stands
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Music Stands
Steel
1980s European Vintage Modern Music Stands
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Music Stands
Steel
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Music Stands
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Music Stands
Metal
Late 20th Century American Modern Music Stands
Lucite
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Music Stands
Metal
1970s American Vintage Modern Music Stands
Nickel
2010s American Modern Music Stands
Brass
2010s American Modern Music Stands
Brass
2010s American Modern Music Stands
Hardwood
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Music Stands
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Music Stands
Steel
19th Century Dutch Antique Modern Music Stands
Brass
1870s Antique Modern Music Stands
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Music Stands
Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Music Stands
Pine
Early 1900s English Antique Modern Music Stands
Oak
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Music Stands
Brass
20th Century Modern Music Stands
Cherry
21st Century and Contemporary Finnish Modern Music Stands
Oak
Early 2000s Portuguese Modern Music Stands
Cherry
Late 20th Century American Modern Music Stands
Wood
1970s American Vintage Modern Music Stands
Nickel