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Piero Lissoni Bed

Bed, Asymmetrical Upholstered Platform Design, King Size Slatted Base, Italy
Bed, Asymmetrical Upholstered Platform Design, King Size Slatted Base, Italy

Bed, Asymmetrical Upholstered Platform Design, King Size Slatted Base, Italy

By Living Divani, Piero Lissoni

Located in West Hollywood, CA

Designed by Piero Lissoni, the piece emphasizes a refined tension between structural clarity and soft volume, resulting in a distinctive contemporary bed system.

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Bed, Beige Upholstered King Size Platform Design, Gunmetal Steel Feet, Italy
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Bed, Beige Upholstered King Size Platform Design, Gunmetal Steel Feet, Italy

By Living Divani, Piero Lissoni

Located in West Hollywood, CA

Designed by Piero Lissoni, the piece balances structural clarity with a relaxed sense of comfort, resulting in a contemporary platform bed with a strong horizontal presence.

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Kartell Trix Sofa Bed by Piero Lissoni in Black

Kartell Trix Sofa Bed by Piero Lissoni in Black

By Kartell, Piero Lissoni

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Trix is made up of three different elements connected by an elegant system of elastics which can transform and adapt to different uses through easy rotation. Trix can be an original ...

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Kartell Trix Sofa Bed by Piero Lissoni in Orange

Kartell Trix Sofa Bed by Piero Lissoni in Orange

By Kartell, Piero Lissoni

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Trix is made up of three different elements connected by an elegant system of elastics which can transform and adapt to different uses through easy rotation. Trix can be an original ...

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Kartell Trix Sofa Bed by Piero Lissoni in White

Kartell Trix Sofa Bed by Piero Lissoni in White

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Located in Brooklyn, NY

Trix is made up of three different elements connected by an elegant system of elastics which can transform and adapt to different uses through easy rotation. Trix can be an original ...

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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sofas

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Piero Lissoni Bed For Sale on 1stDibs

Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the piero lissoni bed you’re looking for at 1stDibs. A piero lissoni bed — often made from animal skin, fabric and leather — can elevate any home. If you’re shopping for a piero lissoni bed, we have 3 options in-stock, while there are 6 modern editions to choose from as well. Your living room may not be complete without a piero lissoni bed — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. A piero lissoni bed is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in modern and mid-century modern styles are sought with frequency. A well-made piero lissoni bed has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Matteo Grassi, Piero Lissoni and Kartell are consistently popular.

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The average selling price for a piero lissoni bed at 1stDibs is $2,695, while they’re typically $895 on the low end and $14,940 for the highest priced.

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.