Modern Table Mirrors
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
2010s Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Metal, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Table Mirrors
Plastic
1970s French Vintage Modern Table Mirrors
Aluminum
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Table Mirrors
Metal, Brass
2010s American Modern Table Mirrors
Wood
2010s Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Stone, Limestone
20th Century Modern Table Mirrors
Silver
2010s American Modern Table Mirrors
Reclaimed Wood, Paint
2010s Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Table Mirrors
Blown Glass, Mirror
1980s American Vintage Modern Table Mirrors
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Marble
1970s American Vintage Modern Table Mirrors
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Marble
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Table Mirrors
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Bronze
2010s American Modern Table Mirrors
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Silver
2010s Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Metal
2010s American Modern Table Mirrors
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Table Mirrors
Wood
1980s French Vintage Modern Table Mirrors
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Brass, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Murano Glass
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Table Mirrors
Wood
1970s American Vintage Modern Table Mirrors
Brass
1910s German Vintage Modern Table Mirrors
Ceramic
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Table Mirrors
Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Table Mirrors
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Aluminum, Iron
2010s Spanish Modern Table Mirrors
Glass
2010s Italian Modern Table Mirrors
Ceramic
1970s Swedish Vintage Modern Table Mirrors
Blown Glass, Mirror
1970s English Vintage Modern Table Mirrors
Chrome
1930s Italian Vintage Modern Table Mirrors
Art Glass
Late 20th Century American Modern Table Mirrors
Glass, Mirror
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Table Mirrors
Carrara Marble, Steel