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Möbius Objects is a Canadian furniture studio that makes modern centerpieces for the home. Each piece is made by hand using techniques that allow the wood’s natural grain to shine. Möbius Objects is particularly well known for its dining tables with a live edge that preserves the tree’s original shape. The company’s beautifully detailed dining chairs and stools make an excellent pairing with its table designs.

Founded in 2010 near the hamlet of Priddis in Alberta, Möbius Objects was from the start focused on creating timeless, handcrafted furniture from solid wood. A team of skilled artisans and a commitment to exceptional quality contributed to its early success. The company handles the building process entirely in-house, using only the best materials for its one-of-a-kind products.

In 2017, Möbius Objects shifted operations to Calgary and opened a 7,000-square-foot workshop, studio and showroom space. In addition to stock pieces, the company began offering customizable works with options to modify elements like the type of wood, finish and dimensions. Möbius Objects also provides a complete design and build service for tailor-made commissions.

Möbius Objects is now an established furniture manufacturer with many local and international clients in residential and commercial spaces. The company boasts a 14,000-square-foot studio space where it can handle commissions of any scope and size.

On 1stDibs, find Möbius Objects seating, tables, storage cabinets and more.

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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.