Large Natural Sponge
21st Century and Contemporary Solomon Islands Mid-Century Modern Natural...
Lucite
20th Century English Victorian Natural Specimens
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary French Baroque Natural Specimens
Coral, Quartz, Tourmaline, Bronze
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Coral
20th Century English Victorian Vitrines
Glass
2010s Italian Vases
Ceramic, Clay, Majolica
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble, Carrara Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Carrara Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Centerpieces
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Centerpieces
Onyx, Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Quartz
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Carrara Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Centerpieces
Marble, Carrara Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Quartz
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Centerpieces
Onyx, Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Onyx, Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Decorative Bowls
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Onyx
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Carrara Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Quartz
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble, Carrara Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Quartz
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Carrara Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble, Carrara Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Vases
Stone, Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble, Carrara Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Onyx, Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dinner Plates
Onyx, Quartz
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Onyx, Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Onyx, Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Quartz, Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Quartz
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Onyx, Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dinner Plates
Onyx, Quartz
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Onyx
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Onyx
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Onyx
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Onyx
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Quartz
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Onyx
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Quartz
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Dinner Plates
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Platters and Serveware
Onyx
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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.