Modern Crystal Serveware
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Crystal Serveware
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Crystal Serveware
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2010s American Modern Crystal Serveware
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Crystal Serveware
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Crystal Serveware
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Crystal Serveware
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2010s Italian Modern Crystal Serveware
Lapis Lazuli, Silver Plate
20th Century Hungarian Modern Crystal Serveware
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20th Century French Modern Crystal Serveware
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Late 20th Century Irish Modern Crystal Serveware
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2010s Italian Modern Crystal Serveware
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2010s Italian Modern Crystal Serveware
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Crystal Serveware
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1980s Polish Vintage Modern Crystal Serveware
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Mid-20th Century Italian Modern Crystal Serveware
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Late 20th Century Italian Modern Crystal Serveware
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1990s Italian Modern Crystal Serveware
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20th Century American Modern Crystal Serveware
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1990s Swiss Modern Crystal Serveware
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21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Crystal Serveware
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21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Crystal Serveware
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21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Crystal Serveware
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21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Crystal Serveware
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21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Crystal Serveware
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21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Crystal Serveware
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1970s French Vintage Modern Crystal Serveware
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2010s French Modern Crystal Serveware
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20th Century French Modern Crystal Serveware
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Late 20th Century French Modern Crystal Serveware
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Late 20th Century Hungarian Modern Crystal Serveware
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20th Century Italian Modern Crystal Serveware
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1980s French Vintage Modern Crystal Serveware
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1980s French Vintage Modern Crystal Serveware
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2010s Italian Modern Crystal Serveware
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2010s Italian Modern Crystal Serveware
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20th Century Modern Crystal Serveware
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Modern Crystal Serveware
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Late 20th Century German Modern Crystal Serveware
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2010s Argentine Modern Crystal Serveware
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2010s Argentine Modern Crystal Serveware
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Crystal Serveware
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1970s French Vintage Modern Crystal Serveware
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Early 20th Century French Modern Crystal Serveware
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20th Century Swedish Modern Crystal Serveware
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Early 20th Century Modern Crystal Serveware
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1980s French Vintage Modern Crystal Serveware
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21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Crystal Serveware
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20th Century French Modern Crystal Serveware
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2010s Italian Modern Crystal Serveware
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Late 20th Century Irish Modern Crystal Serveware
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1980s Irish Vintage Modern Crystal Serveware
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20th Century French Modern Crystal Serveware
Crystal, Bronze
20th Century French Modern Crystal Serveware
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20th Century French Modern Crystal Serveware
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2010s Italian Modern Crystal Serveware
Blown Glass
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Crystal Serveware
Art Glass
2010s Mexican Modern Crystal Serveware
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Crystal Serveware
Murano Glass