Henry Wilson Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Ashtrays
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
Bronze
2010s Australian Post-Modern Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Bathroom Fixtures
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Decorative Bowls
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Decorative Bowls
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Decorative Bowls
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Decorative Bowls
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Bronze
2010s Australian Post-Modern Mounted Objects
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Cabinets
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Cabinets
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Bookends
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Bookends
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
2010s Australian Post-Modern Platters and Serveware
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Desk Sets
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Ashtrays
Bronze
2010s Australian Post-Modern Desk Sets
Aluminum, Brass, Bronze
2010s Australian Post-Modern Desk Sets
Aluminum, Brass, Bronze
2010s Australian Post-Modern Desk Sets
Brass, Aluminum, Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Cabinets
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Decorative Bowls
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Decorative Bowls
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
2010s Australian Post-Modern Table Lamps
Bronze, Aluminum, Brass
2010s Australian Modern Shelves and Wall Cabinets
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Decorative Bowls
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
2010s Australian Post-Modern Platters and Serveware
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Decorative Bowls
Bronze
2010s Australian Post-Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
2010s Australian Modern Table Lamps
Aluminum
2010s Australian Post-Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Travertine, Bronze
2010s Australian Post-Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Travertine
2010s Australian Modern Cabinets
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Decorative Bowls
Aluminum
2010s Australian Post-Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
2010s Australian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Travertine
2010s Australian Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
2010s French Table Lamps
Bronze
2010s Arts and Crafts Wall Lights and Sconces
Bronze
2010s Australian Table Lamps
Marble
2010s Australian Arts and Crafts Wall Lights and Sconces
Marble
2010s Australian Arts and Crafts Table Lamps
Marble
2010s Australian Modern Bathroom Fixtures
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Bathroom Fixtures
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Bathroom Fixtures
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Bathroom Fixtures
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Table Lamps
Bronze
Early 20th Century English Figurative Sculptures
Bronze
2010s Australian Modern Bookends
Bronze
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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.