Brueton Lighting
Initially known as Spanish Metal Arts — a supplier of fencing for stately homes on Long Island — the principals at New York furniture manufacturer Brueton were artistically minded from the start, ensuring that their furniture company would become a major player in the world of stylish, modern stainless steel-based design. The company’s sculptural glass-topped dining tables and vintage mid-century modern chrome-framed armchairs are welcome additions to any contemporary interior.
Brueton got its start with the Manufacturers Hanover Trust building in Manhattan. When award-winning architect Gordon Bunshaft of engineering firm Skidmore, Owings & Merrill (SOM) was designing what would become a modernist marvel in the 1950s — a structure that traded sleek glass facades for the stone columns typically associated with banks — SOM worked with Spanish Metal Arts’s Bruno Saudino and Tony Vitale to furnish the property.
For Bruno and Tony, it marked the start of the aptly named Brueton — the pair produced understated side tables and seating made of glass and aluminum for SOM’s project. Revolutionary for its time, instead of traditional narrow windows, the Manufacturers Hanover Trust building was practically transparent — allowing passers-by to see the vault from the outside. (Celebrated photographer Ezra Stoller, who chronicled iconic New York buildings like Mies van der Rohe’s Seagram Building and the soaring silhouette of Eero Saarinen’s TWA Terminal, shot the building in 1954.)
Much like the material associated with so many of its offerings, Brueton built a reputation of being a strong, dependable and polished manufacturer. The brand worked with designers such as J. Wade Beam, who created cylindrical tables of polished chrome and exquisite marble mirrors during the 1970s, as well as Massimo and Lella Vignelli, a pair of innovative polymaths who left a profound mark on design and wider visual culture.
On 1stDibs, find vintage Brueton case pieces and storage cabinets, tables and seating on 1stDibs.
Late 20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Brueton Lighting
Steel
1970s American Vintage Brueton Lighting
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Brueton Lighting
2010s Mexican Post-Modern Brueton Lighting
Ceramic
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Lighting
Blown Glass, Milk Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Brueton Lighting
Marble, Metal, Nickel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Lighting
Metal
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Lighting
Glass
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Lighting
Chrome
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Brueton Lighting
Metal
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Brueton Lighting
Iron
1960s Italian Vintage Brueton Lighting
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Brueton Lighting
Rock Crystal
1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Brueton Lighting
Metal
Late 20th Century American Post-Modern Brueton Lighting
Belgian Black Marble, Stainless Steel
1990s American Mid-Century Modern Brueton Lighting
Steel
