Angela Adams
Antique Early 1900s English Adam Style Desks and Writing Tables
Wood
Late 20th Century Surrealist Nude Photography
C Print
Mid-20th Century More Prints
Archival Paper, Digital, Digital Pigment
Mid-20th Century Black and White Photography
Archival Paper, Digital, Digital Pigment
People Also Browsed
2010s Photorealist Black and White Photography
Archival Pigment, Archival Paper
2010s American Modern Credenzas
Metal
2010s Austrian Art Deco Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
Antique 19th Century Scottish Victorian Desks
Mahogany
Mid-20th Century French French Provincial Cabinets
Brass
Vintage 1910s British Edwardian Desks
Mahogany
20th Century English Victorian Desks and Writing Tables
Leather, Yew
Early 20th Century Adam Style Desks
Satinwood
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Nude Photography
Archival Paper, Pigment
1990s Contemporary Figurative Photography
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1980s Contemporary Black and White Photography
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20th Century American Classical Roman Photography
2010s Abstract Landscape Paintings
Emulsion, Photogram, Mixed Media, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Monopr...
2010s Abstract Geometric Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Mixed Media, Emulsion, Watercolor, Photographic Paper, Monotype, Monoprint
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Nude Prints
Archival Ink, Rag Paper, Giclée
18th Century Old Masters Paintings
Oil
Recent Sales
2010s American Organic Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
Wool
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Paintings
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern North and South American Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern North and South American Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern North and South American Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern North and South American Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern North and South American Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern North and South American Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern North and South American Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Credenzas
Hardwood, Oak
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Hardwood, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Sideboards
Hardwood, Maple
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Dining Room Tables
Hardwood, Ash, Cherry, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Dining Room Tables
Hardwood, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Dining Room Tables
Hardwood, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Dining Room Tables
Hardwood, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Dining Room Tables
Hardwood, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Dining Room Tables
Hardwood, Ash
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Hardwood, Ash
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
Wool
Early 2000s Indian Modern More Carpets
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Early 2000s Indian Modern More Carpets
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2010s Folk Art Figurative Paintings
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Early 2000s American Mid-Century Modern Caucasian Rugs
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21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Indian Rugs
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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.