Modern Religious Items
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Plaster, Wood
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Plaster
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Plaster
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Religious Items
Aluminum
Late 20th Century English Modern Religious Items
Steel
Mid-20th Century American Modern Religious Items
Silver Plate
19th Century Antique Modern Religious Items
Brass
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Metal
Late 20th Century Israeli Modern Religious Items
Silver
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Paper
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Plaster, Wood
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Paper
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Metal
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Paper
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Metal
1970s Greek Vintage Modern Religious Items
Sterling Silver
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Paper
1940s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Plaster
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Plaster, Wood
1930s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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1980s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Metal
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Plaster
Late 20th Century Israeli Modern Religious Items
Silver
Early 20th Century English Modern Religious Items
Silver
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Plaster, Wood
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Plaster
1940s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Plaster
Early 20th Century Israeli Modern Religious Items
Brass
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Metal
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Wood
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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18th Century English Antique Modern Religious Items
Coconut
1940s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Plaster, Wood
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Metal
Early 1900s Israeli Antique Modern Religious Items
Copper, Silver, Brass
1930s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Plaster, Wood
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Plaster, Wood
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Paper
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Plaster
Early 20th Century Israeli Modern Religious Items
Mother-of-Pearl, Olive, Abalone
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Metal
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Paper
1930s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
Fabric
1930s Spanish Vintage Modern Religious Items
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