Patricia Urquiola Plates
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Crystal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Crystal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Crystal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Stools
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Barware
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Barware
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Barware
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Decorative Baskets
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Barware
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Console Tables
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Glass
Resin, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Glass
Resin, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Glass
Resin, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Glass
Resin, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Glass
Resin, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tableware
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Glass
Resin, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Glass
Resin, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Glass
Resin, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tables
Glass
Early 2000s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Art Glass, Mirror, Cut Glass, Wood
2010s French Modern Chaise Longues
Nickel
2010s French Modern Chaise Longues
Nickel
2010s French Modern Shelves
Metal
2010s French Modern Shelves
Marble, Metal
2010s French Modern Shelves
Metal
2010s French Modern Shelves
Marble, Metal, Brass
2010s Italian Modern Benches
Polyester
Early 2000s Italian Armchairs
Steel
Early 2000s Italian Armchairs
Steel
2010s Italian Modern Vases
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Side Tables
Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Side Tables
Chrome, Steel
Early 2000s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Cut Glass, Mirror, Wood
Early 2000s Italian Minimalist Wall Mirrors
Cut Glass, Mirror, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Glass
Early 2000s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Art Glass, Wood, Cut Glass, Mirror
Early 2000s Italian Post-Modern Wall Mirrors
Wood, Art Glass, Mirror
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Armchairs
Metal
Early 2000s Italian Modern Beds and Bed Frames
Leather
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Stools
2010s Chinese Modern Decorative Bowls
Stainless Steel
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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.