Brutalist Wall Mirrors
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.
1970s French Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Iron, Wrought Iron
2010s Italian Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Brass
20th Century American Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Brass
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Brass, Copper, Steel
1960s French Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Ceramic
1980s French Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Bronze
1960s Italian Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Olive
Mid-20th Century French Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Iron, Wrought Iron
1980s French Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Agate, Brass
Mid-20th Century French Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Gold Leaf, Iron, Wrought Iron
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Brass, Copper, Cut Steel
1960s Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Metal
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Steel, Chrome
1960s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Russian Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Oak
20th Century Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Metal
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Oak
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Gold
1970s Canadian Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Oak, Rosewood, Walnut, Burl
Mid-20th Century Spanish Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Iron, Wrought Iron, Gold Leaf
21st Century and Contemporary Russian Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Oak
20th Century French Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Metal, Iron, Wrought Iron, Gold Leaf
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Russian Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Oak
Mid-20th Century French Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Slate
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Metal, Brass, Chrome
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Giltwood
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Slate, Metal
20th Century French Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Wrought Iron, Gold Leaf, Iron, Metal
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Copper
1960s Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Wood
20th Century American Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Lacquer
20th Century Moroccan Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Russian Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Oak
1960s Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Wood
Mid-20th Century Spanish Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Wrought Iron, Iron
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Brass, Copper, Steel
1970s French Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Brass
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Slate, Bronze, Copper, Pewter
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Metal
1970s Italian Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Glass
20th Century British Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Bronze
1960s North American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Metal
20th Century French Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Metal, Iron, Wrought Iron
1970s Italian Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Brass
2010s American Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Aluminum
Mid-20th Century Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Wood
1980s German Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Bronze
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Resin, Oak
1960s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Wood
1970s Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Metal
1970s Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Metal
1970s Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Resin
1960s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Bronze, Enamel, Steel
1970s Unknown Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Steel
1970s American Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Metal
1950s German Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Iron
1950s German Vintage Brutalist Wall Mirrors
Iron