Vintage Scaffolding

For its design, Swedish designer Marcos Arvonen drew inspiration from scaffolding (brygga). This armchair is rare on the market and has become a collector's item.

This energetic oil painting depicts a large-scale construction site, with concrete foundation pillars being erected within an excavated pit and scaffolding and timber scattered acros...

The image depicts a young girl walking across the sun-bleached plateau toward the camera, a woman seated nearby wrapped in a towel, the Parthenon partially encased in restoration sca...

His artistic education led to a brief, but significant, career as a billboard painter, where he spent his days perched on scaffolding high above Times Square. In the 1960’s Rosenq...

The image depicts the Parthenon's west colonnade viewed from close range and below, Doric columns rising from rough stone steps into the entablature above, restoration scaffolding vi...

The image depicts the west facade of the Parthenon with scaffolding climbing both flanks, workers maneuvering heavy timber beams in the foreground amid marble blocks and construction...

The image depicts a dense knot of tourists compressed into close contact — a woman leaning forward, an older bald man in sunglasses smiling, others pressing in from all sides — with ...

The image depicts two figures sitting huddled at the base of a fallen column drum in an excavated area, the entire upper portion of the frame consumed by the dense steel scaffolding ...

Rendered in a dynamic, earth-toned palette of ochre, deep brown, burnt orange, and luminous cream, the layout features striking, intersecting linear motifs that evoke towering tree t...

The artwork is immensely detailed, with care taken to carefully depict the painter’s face and the folds of his clothes, as well as the nuts and bolts of the industrial scaffolding th...

Linear elements evoke scaffolding or structural forms, while distressed surface textures suggest erosion and patina.

Towards the end of the decade Wilson reached a crossroads, moving towards abstraction and searching for what he called “a scaffolding under the externals.” By 1960, influenced by the...

Towards the end of the decade Wilson reached a crossroads, moving towards abstraction and searching for what he called “a scaffolding under the externals.” By 1960, influenced by the...

Late 20th century industrial bench made out of scaffolding wood with lots of character and hairpin legs.

Late 20th century industrial bench made out of scaffolding wood with lots of character and hairpin legs.

Late 20th century industrial bench made out of scaffolding wood with lots of character and hairpin legs.

Late 20th century industrial bench made out of scaffolding wood with lots of character and hairpin legs.

Fragile blossoms and laughter meet scaffolding, technical storage, and rehearsal materials.

The drypoint technique gives this abstract portrait a raw immediacy—fine linear scaffolding intersecting with an explosion of gestural marks.

The tubular metal frame is cued on scaffolding poles, while the sideways curve of the armrests recalls the handrails on the Milan underground system, which were also the work of Albi...

The composition evokes scaffolding, urban frameworks, and architectural overlays without becoming literal, allowing it to remain conceptually open yet visually grounded.

The intersecting verticals and diagonals evoke scaffolding, radio towers, or early modernist blueprints-yet remain entirely abstract, creating a sense of intellectual tension and urb...

Elongated, silhouetted forms move among a network of mast-like diagonals and linear scaffolding, evoking dockworkers, rigging, and the industrial geometry of a working riverboat.

Sound 9 uses black lines to suggest an architectural space, as if the lines were forming a scaffolding in advance of the planar forms that emerge from the field.

Featuring sculptural wingback, a handsome frame, and brand-new green boucle upholstery, this model manifests a more architectural silhouette than its contemporary counterparts, suppo...

The body becomes architecture, the garment its scaffolding. In an era of excess transparency and easy provocation, this dress reminds us that true seduction lies in precision.

The fractured forms suggest an underlying figural or architectural scaffolding, filtered through the visual language of Cubism and transformed by a modernist sensibility attuned to c...

Painted circa 1955, the composition is a busy London construction site with numerous workmen and on lookers in the foreground. Beyond, on the scaffolding of a building reads Steelwor...

The artist's precise ink work brings out the textures of the weathered hulls, metal scaffolding, and wooden docks, while the watercolor washes soften the industrial setting with atmo...

Two are repairing the wall and roof tiles, while a third has climbed high upon the scaffolding and looks out across the river towards Toyokawa Bridge, which leads into Yoshida Station.

The scaffolding responsible for the torpedo silhouette of the late 50s, this full girdle also features a full cut panty and an integrated tummy control panel.

The basic shape forms a cube that is placed on a tip. The scaffolding is made of red, translucent plastic. White acrylic elements are used as surfaces.

The intersecting verticals and diagonals evoke scaffolding, radio towers, or early modernist blueprints—yet remain entirely abstract, creating a sense of intellectual tension and urb...

Resting atop this architectural scaffolding is an expansive, trumpet-flared cup with an undulating, applied prunt collar and a wide, fire-polished rim.

Executed in Neveu’s signature fusion of drawing and painterly spontaneity, the work balances structure with looseness — pencil scaffolding visible beneath expressive layers of waterc...

Each section of the form balances tension and harmony, with alternating solid black shapes and cross-hatched textures suggesting architectural scaffolding or crystalline frameworks. ...

Vertical trunks and limbs sweep across the picture plane, acting as compositional scaffolding and establishing a dynamic contrast against the rounded, volumetric forms.

Executed in fine black ink on textured artists paper, this composition features three tall, lattice-like towers connected by delicate linear bridges, evoking futuristic architecture,...

The vertical trees create a lyrical scaffolding that filters light and frames the shoreline beyond, inviting the viewer to step into the memory of a perfect day.

Neveu’s ink work provides elegant scaffolding throughout the scene: outlines of rooftops, window frames, gutters, and stone details are sketched with economy and confidence.

For over two hundred years, these fishermen have been fishing the rapids by building scaffolding over the rapids out of bamboo and using that scaffolding to lower wooden nets into th...

One of a kind, never published, black and white photo of Industrial architectural construction site scaffolding, unsigned. Professionally matted and framed, American, early to mid-20...

Six bridges run together in one central point and form the scaffolding of the lamp. The compartments between the jetties are all around with fine slats.

In his sculptural work he attempts to pay homage to the work of man, therefore his images of bridges, scaffolding, elevators, wheeled objects, and the like call attention to these of...

Behind him rises a complex industrial landscape—cranes, girders, and scaffolding—set in a monochrome palette that contrasts with the bright red steel beams forming an abstract “XXIV”...

He brought me to the 58th floor, where I climbed out onto a two story scaffolding lashed to the building on a setback. At the top of the stairs, tucked up under the eagle, itself des...

By 1960, Rosenquist abandoned painting signs after a friend died by falling from scaffolding on the job. Instead of working on commercial pieces, he chose to focus on personal projec...

About the Artist: John Tunnard (1900–1971) was a pioneering British modernist painter whose luminous, architectonic abstractions established him as one of the most intellectually rig...

Original vintage British Railways poster - service to industry shipbuilding - featuring industrial artwork by Norman Hepple (1908-1994) showing workers in a busy shipyard with scaffo...

Great design featuring a skyscraper and Moscow city buildings in front of the blue sky in the background with construction workers on scaffolding in the foreground, a welder and man ...

Save Now - featuring an old church building in ruins with scaffolding and new buildings visible through the remaining pillars below a dramatic orange sky From an original by Myerscou...

Towards the end of the decade Wilson reached a crossroads, moving towards abstraction and searching for what he called “a scaffolding under the externals.” By 1960, influenced by the...

Sexy sophistication was the scaffolding for the design of the Manhattan Minimalism Collection.

More recently, Graves' design for the scaffolding of the Washington Monument Restoration in Washington, D.C. (1999) afforded him the opportunity to distill his ideas into a single ic...

Just over a month later, in January 1866, Constantino Brumidi, who had been hired to paint a fresco above the interior dome's oculus, removed the scaffolding used during his work on ...

A metal fence: "Florence 1976". A metal scaffolding on a white wall streaked with black bands: "Orvieto 1974".

Towards the end of the decade Wilson reached a crossroads, moving towards abstraction and searching for what he called “a scaffolding under the externals.” By 1960, inuenced by the R...

I try to give poetic expression through this formal scaffolding, one which is disciplined and at the same time intuitive.

Towards the end of the decade Wilson reached a crossroads, moving towards abstraction and searching for what he called “a scaffolding under the externals.” By 1960, influenced by the...

In 1997, Kounellis installed thirteen wardrobes and two doors that were sealed in lead along a scaffolding ledge that blocked the entry to a central hall.