Greenapple Bedside Table

The Greenapple furniture company creates captivating pieces using novel forms, colors and materials inspired by modern and Art Deco styles. Its unique 21st-century furniture combines luxury and an uncommon eye for design. Greenapple creates high-end furniture for homes, hotels and commercial spaces, with the tastes and needs of its clients considered in every step of the design process.

The furniture company was started in 2005, when Portuguese economists Rute Martins and Sérgio Rebola teamed up with the idea of employing traditional Portuguese craftsmanship to create beautiful bespoke furniture and decor.

Over time, Greenapple grew to a team of 30 craftspeople, all bringing their individual skills to each new design. A master woodworker, upholsterer and finishing specialist lead the team, with their work also passing down this expertise to the next generation of creators.

Greenapple challenges the uniformity of mass-produced furniture, such as in its playful forms for velvet-upholstered seating and wall mirrors that involve eclectic materials like green onyx, gold leaf and marble. Whether infusing complexity into the structure of a side table or bringing a silhouette of simple elegance to a set of uncomplicated dining chairs, Greenapple incorporates bold concepts and fresh ideas into every piece.

Greenapple has showcased its work around the world, including in Shanghai in 2018 for an Associative Design business mission. The company has an international clientele, including collectors in Asia, North America and across Europe. 

On 1stDibs, explore the vibrant luxury of Portuguese master craftsmanship with Greenapple seating, tables, lighting, decorative objects 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.

The simple fact that everyone sleeps is great news for those in search of an antique, new or vintage bedroom set. A good night’s rest is a universal necessity, which means that there is an abundance of options to meet everyone’s tastes and decor styles.

While the design of beds was once largely informed by the availability of local materials, modern-day consumers can relish the freedom of mixing and matching their favorite furniture styles from around the globe. Springing for a European bedroom set might mean introducing a royalty-inspired resting haven to your home, one outfitted with a plush, elaborately adorned upholstered headboard that gives new meaning to the terms “king-” and “queen-size” beds. Mid-century modern bedroom sets, with their sleek and streamlined bed frames and unassuming walnut nightstands, might also defy notions of standard bedroom furniture given the venturesome design sensibilities that we’ve come to associate with the style.

Targeting the designs of a specific location lets you take a vacation every time you nap. Italian designers, who upholstered headboards and ashwood or cherry bed frames in varying fabrics and leathers, have introduced luxurious bedroom sets over the years, while the decoratively carved dark walnut antique bedroom sets designed in France in the Louis XVI style have never lost their allure centuries later.

For those who love to host, your guest rooms can treat visitors to a one-of-a-kind experience. Build an atmosphere, be it moody or bright, by pairing pieces that share a single color or commit to a specific era. Dazzle with the dark woods that define the dressing tables and armoires of the Art Deco era or immerse your guests in the glitz and wealth of mirrored finishes and bold color contrasts that characterize a Hollywood Regency bedroom set, a movement in design led by unsung interior decorator Dorothy Draper in the 1920s.

Whatever your needs might be, you should sleep in style. Find a wide-ranging collection of antique, new and vintage bedroom sets on 1stDibs.