Brueton Seating
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.
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Stainless Steel
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Brueton Seating
Steel
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Stainless Steel
1970s American Post-Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Chrome
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Brass
1970s American Vintage Brueton Seating
Stainless Steel
1980s American Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Chrome
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Chrome
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Chrome
Late 20th Century American Brueton Seating
Mahogany
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Stainless Steel
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Brueton Seating
Metal, Chrome
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Brueton Seating
Metal, Chrome
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Upholstery, Wood
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Stainless Steel, Chrome
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Brueton Seating
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Brueton Seating
Stainless Steel
Late 20th Century American Modern Brueton Seating
Chrome
Late 20th Century American Modern Brueton Seating
Stainless Steel
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Brueton Seating
Chrome
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Stainless Steel
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Stainless Steel
1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Leather
1970s American Vintage Brueton Seating
Steel
1970s American Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Velvet
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Chrome
1970s French Vintage Brueton Seating
Rush, Wood
1970s American Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Brass
1970s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Stainless Steel
Early 2000s American Mid-Century Modern Brueton Seating
Steel, Chrome
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Brueton Seating
Leather, Oak
2010s Italian Modern Brueton Seating
Steel
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Chrome
1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Mahogany, Upholstery
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Brueton Seating
Stainless Steel
1970s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Chrome
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Chrome
1970s French Vintage Brueton Seating
Chrome
1970s American Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Velvet
Late 20th Century Brueton Seating
Chrome
Late 20th Century Brueton Seating
Chrome
1990s American Minimalist Brueton Seating
Steel
2010s American Bauhaus Brueton Seating
Chrome
1980s Vintage Brueton Seating
Chrome
1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Aluminum
1980s American Post-Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Upholstery
1990s American Post-Modern Brueton Seating
Stainless Steel
1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Chrome
1980s American Modern Vintage Brueton Seating
Stainless Steel
1980s Vintage Brueton Seating
Upholstery