1970s Vintage Geometric Wood Wall Sculpture, Brutalist Relief Panel
Located in La Mesa, CA
Handcrafted in the 1970s and sourced from a Southern California estate, this sculptural wood wall panel showcases a bold geometric relief design, meticulously assembled from richly g...
Wood
Brutalist panel (mixed media)
Located in Oostende, BE
A Brutalist panel featuring geometrically cut colored glass set in concrete, all encased in a sturdy wooden frame.
Cement
An OP-ART BRUTALIST PRIMITIVIST Wood Panel by BENOIT COURBOIN France 1990-2000
Located in PARIS, FR
A rectangular relief work, wall sculpture , Abstraction, Brutalist, Primitivist, Tribal, Systematic composition of mounted wood bark, forming a very graphic, even kinetic, rhythmic m...
Wood
An OP-ART BRUTALIST PRIMITIVIST Wood Panel by BENOIT COURBOIN France 1990-2000
Located in PARIS, FR
An authentic relief work, wall sculpture with a circle in a square, Abstraction, Brutalist, Primitivist, Tribal, circular composition of dried wood twigs forming an optical movement ...
Metal
Danish Brutalist Credenza, Polished Elm Wood, Carved Panels, 1960s
Located in New York, NY
1960's Danish brutalist design credenza. Decorative carved panels and three front doors and three front drawers.
Elm
John Baughman Weave Series Wall Sculpture Brutalist Wood Art Panel 2010
By Janet Richardson-Baughman
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Striking vintage wall sculpture by American artist John Baughman from the celebrated “Weave” Series, signed and dated to the reverse Weave Series 1, Marshwood Studios Inc., Copyright...
Wood
Vintage Boho Carved Wood Panel of Man
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This striking vintage wood panel is a masterful example of high-relief sculptural carving, likely inspired by classical mythology or Renaissance-era philosopher busts. Expertly hand-...
Wood
Vintage Carved Wood Panel Wall Sculpture - Set of 4
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Elevate your interior with this striking set of four vintage hand-carved wood panels, a masterful fusion of Brutalist texture and Boho Chic elegance.
Gold Leaf, Silver Leaf
French Artist Jacques Potage Brutalist Wall Art Sculpture Panel, circa 1970
By Jacques Potage
Located in Atlanta, GA
Mounted on a wood plank covered with textured pewter, the metal panel features a stylized set of sailboats in an abstract, mixed-metal, modernist-inspired design.
Metal, Brass, Pewter
MCM Bull & Matador Brutalist Copper Wall Relief Panel, Abstract Figural Form
By Paul Evans
Located in San Diego, CA
A striking mid-century modern Brutalist wall relief panel, executed in hand-worked patinated copper over a carved wood substrate.
Copper
French Neo-Primitive Abstract Portrait Painting, Mixed Media on Panel, 1999
Located in Valencia, VC
Executed on a wood panel rather than canvas, the painting possesses an appealing material quality and architectural solidity.
Wood
Monumental Fish Painting on wood panel with bamboo frame
Located in Sint-Kruis, BE
Black and white fish painting by Wietse Hindryckx. Wietse is a young street artist living in Bruges, Belgium. We met him in 2015 and immediately fell in love with his painting. He p...
Bamboo, Wood
Brutalist Abstract High Relief Panel by Laurent Jimenez Balaguer
By Laurent Jimenez Balaguer 1
Located in Denton, TX
Stunning high relief art work from Laurent Jiménez-Balaguer Born in L’Hospitalet del Llobregat, Barcelona, Spain. He lived and worked in Paris. During the 1950s, he was one of the mo...
Gesso, Resin, Wood
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H 32.5 in W 61.25 in D 17.25 in
Brass Sideboard or Credenza with Black Brutalist Relief Panels, Italy
Located in New York, NY
This new brass and black Brutalist plaster paneled sideboard or credenza was handcrafted in Florence, Italy, in wood covered in brass sheets.
Brass
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H 32.68 in W 74.81 in D 16.15 in
Spanish Brutalist Panel Cabinet in Oak with Geometric Doors, Spain 1960s
Located in Utrecht, NL
Brutalist architecture and design was born from post-World War II necessity and followed the aesthetic of the new era, offering minimalist pieces that forwent excess adornments in ex...
Wood, Oak
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H 32.29 in W 63.78 in D 16.15 in
Unusual large vintage Brutalist panelled cabinet with eglomise mirror glass
Located in Hastings, GB
Unusual large Mexican Brutalist panelled cabinet, with drop-down doors. Covered in deep-set panels with inset eglomise mirror glass pieces and handmade iron pulls.
Iron
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H 72 in W 72 in D 2.5 in
Pair of Brutalist Panels or Doors by Billy Joe Mccarroll and David Gillespe
By Billy Joe Mccarroll and David Gillespe
Located in Bellport, NY
Stunning pair of cast bronzed resin panels or doors by Mccarroll & Gillespie. These panels show a radiant pattern with deeply incised lines and finely molded details, which exhi...
Resin, Wood
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H 15.75 in W 48.04 in D 0.79 in
Vintage copper wall panel Brutalist wall art Horses, 1960 Beautiful handmade
Located in Oirlo, LI
intage copper wall panel Brutalist wall art Horses, 1960 Beautiful handmade wall panel from the 1960s with horses. Made of hand beaten copper. The artist has worked beautifully ...
Copper
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H 72.5 in W 54.5 in D 1.75 in
Witco Tiki Carved Wood Three-Panel Screen or Room Divider, circa 1960s
By Witco
Located in Peabody, MA
Rare decorative three-panel screen in the hand-carved wood tiki or Polynesian style for which Witco is known. Finished on the back but not with the same carvings. Each panel m...
Wood
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H 70.87 in W 63 in D 1.19 in
Chinese Black Carved Soapstone Flower Birds 4 Panel Folding Screen Room Divider
Located in DE MEERN, NL
Looking for a statement piece to elevate your living space? Look no further than this midcentury Chinese 4 Panel Carved Soapstone Brutalist Room Divider Screen! hand carved with int...
Soapstone
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H 41.34 in W 77.96 in D 49.22 in
Unique Nerone e Patuzzi Bar for Gruppo NP2 with Three Wooden Panels, Italy 1976
By Gruppo NP2, Nerone and Patuzzi
Located in Hellouw, NL
Design The bar comprises three curved panels crafted from solid wood. Its front surface is deeply hand-carved and then fire-treated, a process that darkens the material while enhanci...
Wood
American Studio Craft Paper Mache Abstract Sculpture Panels, Circa 1970
Located in Rochester, NY
Paper mache abstract sculpture wall panels constructed from an emulsified pulp of paper / organic plant matter / fiber rags / glue w/ overall embossed hand sculpted symbolic decorati...
Paste, Gesso, Canvas, Natural Fiber, Wood, Paint, Paper
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H 26.25 in W 68.5 in D 17.75 in
Brutalist Four-Panel Credenza by Adrian Pearsall for Craft Associates
By Adrian Pearsall, Craft Associates
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This unique credenza in the Brutalist style of Paul Evans was designed by Adrian Pearsall for Craft Associates and is composed of molded resin decoration in gold and bronze tones ove...
Resin, Wood
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H 20.28 in W 11.42 in D 1.97 in
1970s Brutalist Metal Mask Wall Art Sculpture Panel by Jacques Potage France
By Jacques Potage
Located in Atlanta, GA
Incredible handcrafted French Brutalist metal wall art sculpture panel by Jacques Potage (1931 -). Mounted on an unusual framed Formica plinth, the metal panel features a stylized Af...
Metal, Brass
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H 76 in W 70 in D 2 in
Brutalist 3-Panel Folding Screen or Room Divider, Sculpted Bronze Clad Resin
By Forms and Surfaces
Located in Buffalo, NY
Brutalist 3-panel folding screen or room divider, sculpted bronze clad resin, striking design. Very dramatic,!! Amazing quality and construction, minor chipping and loss, each panel ...
Metal
Brutalist Wood Panel Coffee Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Brutalist coffee table with a wood panel design from Denmark circa 1960.
Wood
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H 22.5 in W 28 in D 16 in
Pair of Brutalist Nightstands or End Tables for Lane Furniture from the 1960s
By Lane Furniture, Paul Evans
Located in Houston, TX
Beautiful Brutalist wood relief panels grace the front of these nightstands while the outer casing is surrounded by white lacquer.
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H 28.35 in W 36.23 in D 18.12 in
Vintage Brutalist 2-Door Sideboard with graphic door panels, Refurbished
By De Coene Frères
Located in Ostend, BE
This sculptural sideboard has solid wooden graphic panels which makes it a very heavy quality. We cleaned and stripped them completely. We finished them in a satin yellow lacquer, it...
Wood
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H 21.66 in W 29.34 in D 0.99 in
Rivka Eliav Brutalist Copper, Enamel and Stainless Steel Wall Panel 1960s
Located in Melbourne, AU
Brutalist enamel and copper wall panel by highly regarded Israeli artist, Rivka Eliav. This work dates to the 1960s. Eliav explores the ancient and new, through abstractions of a...
Copper, Enamel, Stainless Steel
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H 6.11 in W 15.95 in D 0.79 in
Rivka Eliav Brutalist Copper, Enamel and Stainless Triptych Three Panels, 1960s
Located in Melbourne, AU
Three Brutalist enamel and copper wall panels by highly regarded Israeli artist, Rivka Eliav. These can be hung in any direction and look wonderful grouped together. This work da...
Copper, Enamel, Stainless Steel
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H 17.13 in W 9.26 in D 0.79 in
Rivka Eliav Brutalist Copper, Enamel and Stainless Steel Wall Panel III 1960s
Located in Melbourne, AU
Brutalist enamel and copper wall panel by highly regarded Israeli artist, Rivka Eliav. This work dates to the 1960s. Eliav explores the ancient and new, through abstractions of a...
Copper, Enamel, Stainless Steel
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H 29.34 in W 21.46 in D 0.99 in
Rivka Eliav Brutalist Copper, Enamel and Stainless Steel Wall Panel II 1960s
Located in Melbourne, AU
Brutalist enamel and copper wall panel by highly regarded Israeli artist, Rivka Eliav. This work dates to the 1960s. Eliav explores the ancient and new, through abstractions of a...
Copper, Enamel, Stainless Steel
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H 47.25 in W 85.04 in D 6.3 in
Luigi Bersani Sculptural Wall Panel in Patined Bronze and White Wood, Italy 1970
By Frigerio Di Desio
Located in Firenze, IT
Italian sculptural wall decorative panel realized in patined bronze with different finishing/colors over a white wood panel with perfect condition and vintage patina, realized by Lui...
Bronze
The design of brutalist furniture encompasses that which is crafted, hewn and worked by hand — an aesthetic rebuke (or, at least, a counterpoint) to furniture that is created using 21st-century materials and technology. Lately, the word “brutalist” has been adopted by the realms of furniture design and the decorative arts to refer to chairs, cabinets, tables and accessory pieces such as mirror frames and lighting that are made of rougher, deeply textured metals and other materials that are the visual and palpable antithesis of the sleek, smooth and suave.
ORIGINS OF BRUTALIST FURNITURE DESIGN
CHARACTERISTICS OF BRUTALIST FURNITURE DESIGN
BRUTALIST FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
VINTAGE BRUTALIST FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The term brutalism — which derives from the French word brut, meaning “raw” — was coined by architecture critic Reyner Banham to describe an architectural style that emerged in the 1950s featuring monumental buildings, usually made of unornamented concrete, whose design was meant to project an air of strength and solidity.
Le Corbusier essentially created the brutalist style; its best-known iterations in the United States are the Whitney Museum of American Art, which was designed by Marcel Breuer, and Paul Rudolph's Yale Art and Architecture Building. The severe style might have been the most criticized architectural movement of the 20th century, even if it was an honest attempt to celebrate the beauty of raw material. But while the brutalist government buildings in Washington, D.C., seemingly bask in their un-beauty, brutalist interior design and decor is much more lyrical, at times taking on a whimsical, romantic quality that its exterior counterparts lack.
Paul Evans is Exhibit A for brutalist furniture design. His Sculpture Front cabinets laced with high-relief patinated steel mounts have become collector's items nonpareil, while the chairs, coffee table and dining table in his later Cityscape series and Sculpted Bronze series for Directional Furniture are perhaps the most expressive, attention-grabbing pieces in American modern design. Other exemplary brutalist designers are Silas Seandel, the idiosyncratic New York furniture designer and sculptor whose works in metal — in particular his tables — have a kind of brawny lyricism, and Curtis Jere, a nom-de-trade for the California team of Curtis Freiler and Jerry Fels, the bold makers of expressive scorched and sheared copper and brass mirror frames and wall-mounted sculptures.
Brutalist furniture and sculptures remain popular with interior designers and can lend unique, eccentric, human notes to an art and design collection in any home.
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The mid-20th-century design style is defined by its angular shapes and use of raw materials.
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Learn how to work with this rugged style in your decor.