Modern Flush Mount Lighting
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
1980s German Vintage Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Glass
2010s European Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Bronze, Nickel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Brass
2010s Belgian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Polyester
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Brass
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Metal
1970s Vintage Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Chrome
2010s Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Glass
2010s American Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Brass
1970s American Vintage Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Milk Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Art Glass
2010s American Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Glass
1970s German Vintage Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Metal, Brass
1980s German Vintage Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Chrome
20th Century Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Blown Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Blown Glass
20th Century Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Chrome
20th Century Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Murano Glass
2010s American Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Aluminum
20th Century Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Glass
2010s Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Blown Glass
2010s American Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Metal
2010s American Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Brass
2010s Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Brass, Enamel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Murano Glass
2010s American Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Gold Leaf, Nickel, Metal, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Art Glass
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Aluminum
20th Century Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Blown Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Art Glass
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Blown Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Blown Glass
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Aluminum
2010s Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Brass, Enamel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Cut Glass, Murano Glass, Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass
1980s German Vintage Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Chrome, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Belgian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Aluminum, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Art Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Brass
1960s Swedish Vintage Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Brass
1960s Austrian Vintage Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Crystal, Brass
1980s German Vintage Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Metal
2010s Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Blown Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Gold
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Flush Mount Lighting
Aluminum