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2010s Spanish Modern Sofas
Leather, Wood
2010s South African Modern Daybeds
Stainless Steel
2010s South African Modern Chairs
Stainless Steel
2010s South African Modern Chairs
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Blown Glass, Milk Glass, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
1610s Landscape Prints
Engraving
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Brass, Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Brass, Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Brass
Antique Early 19th Century Regency Tea Caddies
Mother-of-Pearl, Rosewood
Vintage 1920s Sterling Silver
Sterling Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Iron, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Murano Glass, Glass
Antique 19th Century English Regency Tea Caddies
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Iron, Brass
Early 2000s Pop Art Landscape Drawings and Watercolors
Permanent Marker, Board, Mixed Media, Offset
21st Century and Contemporary Contemporary Landscape Paintings
Oil, Panel
1620s Landscape Prints
Engraving
Early 20th Century American Impressionist Landscape Paintings
Oil, Board
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Metal
1910s American Impressionist More Prints
Laid Paper, Lithograph
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Milk Glass, Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Crystal, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Glass, Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Murano Glass, Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Glass, Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Glass, Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Crystal
Antique Late 18th Century Chinese Export Tea Sets
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Glass, Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Glass, Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Glass, Smoked Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Glass, Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Vases
Glass, Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Glass, Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary European Vases
Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Murano Glass
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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.