Laurie Beckerman Design
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Side Tables
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Side Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Stainless Steel, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Side Tables
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Benches
Birch, Plywood, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Side Tables
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Console Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel
2010s American Minimalist Benches
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Acrylic
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel
2010s American Modern Benches
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Benches
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Floor Lamps
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Rocking Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Side Tables
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Shelves
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Side Chairs
Stainless Steel, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Side Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Side Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Other Chairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Floor Lamps
Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary North American Modern Floor Lamps
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Chairs
Birch
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Tableware
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Tableware
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Tableware
Porcelain
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Tableware
Porcelain
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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.