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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Mirrors
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Plexiglass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Crystal, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Crystal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Vases
Blown Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps
Plastic
20th Century Italian American Classical Table Lamps
Steel, Nickel
Early 2000s Italian Vases
Murano Glass
Early 2000s Italian Vases
Murano Glass
Early 2000s Italian Vases
Murano Glass
Early 2000s Italian Vases
Murano Glass
Early 2000s Italian Vases
Murano Glass
Vintage 1930s Italian Art Deco Animal Sculptures
Murano Glass
Early 2000s European Vases
Art Glass
Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Late 20th Century Modern Stools
Ash
Early 2000s Italian Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror
Early 2000s Italian Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Crystal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Gold
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Crystal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal, Copper
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Silver
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Vases
Art Glass, Blown Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Plastic
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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.