Modern Clocks
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
20th Century Swiss Modern Clocks
Bronze
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Fiberglass, Wood
1980s Japanese Vintage Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Clocks
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Clocks
Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass, Stainless Steel
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Wood
2010s Italian Modern Clocks
Carrara Marble, Brass
Late 20th Century American Modern Clocks
Brass, Other, Iron
1990s Italian Modern Clocks
Steel
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Wood, Fiberglass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Chrome
Late 20th Century Modern Clocks
Stainless Steel
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Clocks
Plastic
2010s French Modern Clocks
Carrara Marble, Copper
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Stainless Steel, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Clocks
Ceramic
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Stainless Steel, Chrome
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Marble, Metal, Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Metal, Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Chrome
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Chrome
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Fiberglass, Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Fiberglass, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Clocks
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Clocks
Plastic
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Wood, Polystyrene
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Chrome
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Stainless Steel
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Stainless Steel, Chrome
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Fiberglass, Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Stainless Steel
Late 20th Century Modern Clocks
Stainless Steel
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Fiberglass, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Clocks
Metal
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass, Steel
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Chrome
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Clocks
Plastic
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Clocks
Brass