Brutalist Decorative Bowls
The term brutalism — which derives from the French word brut, meaning “raw” — was coined to describe an architectural style that emerged in the 1950s featuring monumental buildings, usually made of unornamented concrete, whose design was meant to project an air of strength and solidity. Le Corbusier essentially created the brutalist style; its best-known iterations in the United States are the Marcel Breuer–designed Whitney Museum of American Art and Paul Rudolph's Yale Art and Architecture Building.
Lately, the word “brutalist” has been adopted by the realms of furniture design and the decorative arts to refer to cabinets, tables, and accessory pieces such as mirror frames and lighting that are made of rougher, deeply textured metals and other materials that are the visual and palpable antithesis of the sleek, smooth and suave. Brutalist design encompasses that which is crafted, hewn and worked by hand — an aesthetic rebuke (or, at least, a counterpoint) to furniture that is created using 21st-century materials and technology.
Paul Evans is Exhibit A for brutalist design. His Sculpture Front cabinets laced with high-relief patinated steel mounts have become collector's items nonpareil, while the chairs and tables in his later Cityscape series and Sculpted Bronze series are perhaps the most expressive, attention-grabbing pieces in modern American design. Other exemplars of brutalist design are Silas Seandel, the idiosyncratic New York furniture designer and sculptor whose works in metal — in particular his tables — have a kind of brawny lyricism, and Curtis Jere, a nom-de-trade for the California team of Curtis Freiler and Jerry Fels, the bold makers of expressive scorched and sheared copper and brass mirror frames and wall-mounted sculptures.
The names of other brutalist designers are, so far, unknown to history. The authentic brutalist furniture and sculptures on 1stDibs lend unique, eccentric, human notes to an art and design collection.
2010s Spanish Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Aluminum
1980s Spanish Vintage Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Brass, Aluminum
2010s Spanish Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Aluminum, Brass
1970s Finnish Vintage Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Bronze
20th Century Unknown Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Ceramic
1970s Vintage Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Wood
1970s Italian Vintage Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Iron
1960s French Vintage Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Wood
2010s American Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Concrete
1970s Italian Vintage Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Art Glass
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Glass
Mid-20th Century Finnish Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Stoneware
20th Century English Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Walnut
1890s Swedish Antique Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Wood
20th Century English Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Walnut
2010s European Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Bronze
Late 19th Century Swedish Antique Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Oak
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Ceramic, Pottery
2010s Belgian Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Bronze
1970s French Vintage Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Bronze
1970s Spanish Vintage Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Aluminum, Brass
2010s Belgian Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Bronze
2010s Belgian Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Bronze
Mid-20th Century Spanish Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Gold Leaf, Iron
20th Century American Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Iron
1960s American Vintage Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Aluminum
20th Century Belgian Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Aluminum
1970s Italian Vintage Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Bronze
2010s American Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Concrete
1970s Spanish Vintage Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Aluminum, Brass
18th Century Swedish Antique Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Wood
1970s Italian Vintage Brutalist Decorative Bowls
Bronze