Brutalist Furniture and Design
Brutalist Furniture and Design (UNITED STATES AND EUROPE)
The term Brutalism — which derives from the French word brut, meaning “raw” — was coined to describe an architectural style that emerged in the 1950s featuring monumental buildings, usually made of unornamented concrete, whose design was meant to project an air of strength and solidity. Le Corbusier essentially created the Brutalist style; its best-known iterations in the United States are the Marcel Breuer–designed Whitney Museum of American Art and Paul Rudolph's Yale Art and Architecture Building.
Lately, the word “Brutalist” has been adopted by the realms of design and the decorative arts to refer to cabinets, tables, and accessory pieces such as mirror frames and lighting that are made of rougher, deeply textured metals and other materials that are the visual and palpable antithesis of the sleek, smooth and suave. Brutalist design encompasses that which is crafted, hewn and worked by hand — an aesthetic rebuke (or, at least, a counterpoint) to furniture that is created using 21st-century materials and technology.
Paul Evans is Exhibit A for Brutalist design. His Sculpture Front cabinets laced with high-relief patinated steel mounts have become collector's items nonpareil, while the chairs and tables in his later Sculpted Bronze series are perhaps the most expressive, attention-grabbing pieces in modern American design. Other exemplars of Brutalist design are Silas Seandel, the idiosyncratic New York furniture designer and sculptor whose works in metal — in particular his tables — have a kind of brawny lyricism, and Curtis Jere, a nom-de-trade for the California team of Curtis Freiler and Jerry Fels, the bold makers of expressive scorched and sheared copper and brass mirror frames and wall-mounted sculptures.
The names of other Brutalist designers are, so far, unknown to history. The furniture and sculptures on these pages lend unique, eccentric, human notes to an art and design collection.
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Autumn Leaves Mirror Signed by Jere, Copper, Brass and Steel, circa 1960s
By Curtis Jere
Located in Atlanta, GA
Autumn leaves mirror signed by Jere, copper, brass and steel, circa 1960s.
Category
1960s Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Brass, Copper, Steel
Bronze Push and Pull Art Door Handle Wave Relief
Located in London, GB
Artistic bronze cast door handle with a textural relief like a wave, suitable for push and pull doors.
Category
1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Bronze
Daniel Gluck Sculptural Cocktail Table
By Daniel Gluck
Located in San Diego, CA
Brutalist sculptural bronze coffee or cocktail table with rectangular glass top by Daniel Gluck. Glass top measures 48" long, 32" wide. Table base measures 38" long, 23" wide, 14" ta...
Category
20th Century American Brutalist Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Bronze
Brutalist Steel and Pine Dining Table and Chairs
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Stunning Brutalist steel and stained pine dining table and chairs, circa early 1960s. This unusual example has a stained solid pine slab top with a formed and heavily textured steel ...
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1960s American Brutalist Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Steel
Hand-Welded Raven Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
Hand-welded Brutalist raven sculpture, American, 1975 (signed and dated by artist).
Category
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Metal
Whimsical Brutalist Style Warty the Warthog Paperweight Mid-century Modern
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Whimsical and fun brutalist style Warty the warthog paperweight. What madman would not want this handsome devil holding down their important papers.
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Metal
Brutalist Torch Cut Steel Sculpture by Marcello Fantoni
By Marcello Fantoni
Located in New York, NY
A brutal abstract sculpture comprising torch cut and welded steel pieces balanced on a steel channel base. Stamped "Fantoni", Italian, circa 1960.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Brutalist Centre Table
Located in Hudson, NY
This striking centre table in the Brutalist style has an Iron sculpture as table base with a glass top, signed, see image 2, somewhat illegible 'Sila....' With a larger glass top it ...
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20th Century American Brutalist Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Iron
Gabor Kalman Brutalist Steel Sculpture
Located in Chicago, IL
Kalman takes steel and torch-cuts it, then contours it for a Brutalist effect.
Signed base Gabor Kalman '68.
This item is currently on view in our NYC Greenwich Street Location.
Category
1960s American Brutalist Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Cut Steel
Large Mixed Metal Wall Sculpture by Silas Seandel
By Silas Seandel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stunning "Brutalist" wall sculpture made by Silas Seandel in 1973 for a NY residence.
The piece is very large in size and with a very imposing presence, the piece was ordered throug...
Category
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Steel
Silas Seandel Brutalist coffee table - Manner of Paul Evans
By Silas Seandel
Located in Chicago, IL
A beautiful Silas Seandel coffee table. Glass not included. This form can take a variety of round glass tops. Structurally sound to handle the weight.
Glass is not included for th...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Metal
Metal Brutalist Lamp
Located in Toronto, Ontario
A very nice heavily worked metal lamp.
Thick pierced and cut raw metal with applied welds and folds.
A Brutalist masterpiece.
Useable sculpture.
Category
1970s American Brutalist Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Metal
Brutalist Steel Sculpture
Located in Montreal, QC
Brutalist patinated steel sculpture. Signed and dated 1970.
Category
1970s Canadian Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Sven Aage Brutalist Hanging Lamp for Holm Sorensen & Company
By Holm Sørensen
Located in Oak Harbor, OH
Designer: Sven Aage.
Manufacturer: Holm Sorensen & Company.
Period or model: Mid-Century Modern.
Specs: Metal.
Condition:
This Holm Sorensen brutalist lamp is in great vintag...
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1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Monumental Pair of Brutalist Torch Cut Steel Laurel Lamps Mid-Century Modern
By Laurel Lamp Company
Located in Pemberton, NJ
1960s table lamp in Brutalist style. Comprised of welded torch cut steel cubic strips with a black base. The size alone is impressive let alone the skillfully welded construction in ...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Iron
Pair of Paco Rabanne Bronze Sculpted Lamps at cost price
By Paco Rabanne
Located in Saint-Ouen (PARIS), FR
Pair of sculpted bronze lamps, signed by Paco Rabanne.
Category
1970s French Modern Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Bronze
Small Brutalist Pendant Light By Tom A. Greene
By Tom Greene
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Small brutalist pendant light by Tom A. Greene
Category
20th Century American Brutalist Brutalist Furniture and Design
Pair of C. Jere Style Brass Brutalist Table Lamps Laurel, Mid-Century Modern
By Curtis Jere
Located in Pemberton, NJ
These wonderful lamps are designed by Bijan of California titled “Setarrah”. Large-scale sculptural table lamps comprised of a brass rod sunburst and torch cut curved brass ribbons...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Brass
Mid Century Modern Paul Kingma Coffee Table
By Paul Kingma
Located in Weesp, NL
Mid century modern coffee table by Paul Kingma.
Slate stone Brutalist coffee table designed by Paul Kingma in the 1960s.
A "mosaic" of different sizes slate stone, so called Sell Pi...
Category
1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Slate, Metal, Brass
Brutalist Mid-Century Modern Chandelier in the Manner of Curtis Jere
By Curtis Jere
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Vintage, elegant and simple Brutalist torch cut brass chandelier from the 1960s. Eighteen-light supply the illumination, along with center spot light. Excellent patina.
Category
1960s American Brutalist Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Brass
Solid Cast Bronze Large Scale Room Divider from Syracuse, NY 1964
Located in New York, NY
From the lobby of the Public Safety Building in Syracuse, NY.
Plans done in 1959, construction started July 1962 and was completed in 1964.
King & King Architects.
Coordinating Archi...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Bronze
Bronze Brutalist Doors by Forms and Surfaces
By Forms and Surfaces, Billy Joe Mccarroll and David Gillespe
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Absolutely stunning huge double sided bronze resin doors. Make a statement at the entrance of your home. Designed by Billy Joe McCarroll and David Gillespe for Forms+Surfaces in the ...
Category
1960s American Brutalist Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Bronze Candlesticks by Costa Coulentianos
By Costas Coulentianos
Located in New York City, NY
Bronze candlestick holders by Costa Coulentianos, circa 1960.
Category
1960s French Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Bronze
Mirror in Bronze by Luciano Frigerio
By Luciano Frigerio
Located in London, GB
A sculptural square wall mirror featuring a frame in cast bronze and original mirror. Luciano Frigerio, Italy, 1966.
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Lamps by Luciano Frigerio
By Luciano Frigerio
Located in Bois-Colombes, FR
Italian 1970s bronze table lamps with brass shade.
Category
1970s French Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Pair Huge Richard Barr & Harold Weiss Ribbon Lamp for Laurel, Mid-Century Modern
By Harry Balmer
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Huge pair of Richard Barr & Harold Weiss designed ribbon lamps made by Laurel Lamps. Patinated steel dramatically sculpted into abstract modern ribbon. Form and function, that's the ...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Steel
Bronze Sculpture Titled 'Reading' by George Koras
By George Koras
Located in New York, NY
A bronze sculpture designed in the surrealist style by New York artist George Koras (b. 1925), produced circa 1960s, depicting a highly abstracted figure of a woman reading, mounted ...
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Bronze
20th Century Thomas Marsh Bronze Sculpture "Producers"
By Thomas Marsh
Located in Cincinnati, OH
This figural composition was created by sculptor Thomas Marsh (American, b. 1951). Marsh's work includes public installations in addition to pieces held in corporate and private coll...
Category
1970s Italian Expressionist Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Bronze
Post-Modern Table Lamp by Coy Howard
By Coy Howard
Located in Bridgewater, CT
American post-modern bronze and parchment table lamp by California-school architect Coy Howard, 1984.
Height: 19½in., Width: 20in., Depth: 8¾in.
Category
1980s American American Craftsman Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Bronze
Rectangular Bronze Push and Pull Art Door Handle
Located in London, GB
Rectangular bronze cast door handle with a textural relief in vertical curves and dark patina, suitable for push and pull doors.
The handle brackets are attached to the main plate by...
Category
1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Bronze
Polished Brass Cubist Chandelier by Curtis Jere, Signed
By Curtis Jere
Located in New York, NY
A brass plated steel chandelier with folded interlocking sections, forming an intricate geometric cluster. By Curtis Jere. American, circa 1970.
Category
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Brass
Spectacular Brutalist Lamp by Tom Greene
By Tom Greene
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Brutalist hanging lamp constructed of distressed alloy, designed by Tom Greene. A true piece of functional art.
(Please confirm item location - NY or NJ - with dealer).
Category
1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Bronze and Green Marble Signed Gerber Abstract Sculpture Vintage
By Adolf Gerber
Located in North Miami, FL
One could interrupt the nature of this vintage signed abstract bronze and dark green with black marble sculpture through the feet. Brutalist in molten form of the bronze. The variega...
Category
1970s American Brutalist Vintage Brutalist Furniture and Design
Materials
Marble, Bronze
