Modern Screens and Room Dividers
MODERN STYLE
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
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Item type: Antique and Vintage
Style: Modern
Karl Springer Six Panel Coromandel Screen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Rare Karl Springer Coromandel screen. Authentic and original, circa 1978. Six panels, decorated on one side with black lacquer overlay on gold...
Category
1970s American Vintage Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Vintage Flexible Wooden Room Divider, Screen, Finland
Located in Antwerp, BE
Modern room divider - paravent of laquered birch
Scandinavian two-layered room divider
Sebastian
Sebastian Lönnqvist Screen - Vintage Martela - Roll up room divider
Wave screen - ...
Category
Late 20th Century Finnish Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Birch
Mid-20th C. Imperial East Coromandel Etched and Painted Six-Fold Floor Screen
Located in Germantown, MD
A Mid-20th Century Chinese Coromandel Etched and Painted Six-Fold Floor Screen screen or room divider. Exclusively made by Imperial East New York
Measure...
Category
20th Century American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
20th Century Continental Hand-Painted Oil on Board Four-Fold Floor Screen
Located in Germantown, MD
Continental Hand- Painted Wood Four-Fold Floor Screen. Oil on board fllor screen or room divider.
Measures 64" in width and stands 72" tall.
Category
20th Century American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Paint
Gertrud Olsson Geometric Screen
Located in London, England
Height: 164cm
Width: 160cm
Designer: Gertrud Olsson
Manufacturer: Gertrud Olsson
Date: 1990s.
Signed: Signed and Dated 1992
Materials: Fabric
Description: Signed by the artist ...
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1990s Swedish Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Fabric
Piero Fornasetti Style 6 Panel Architectural Privacy Screen Room Divider
Located in Wayne, NJ
Large decorative Fornasetti Style 6 Panel Architectural privacy screen room divider. Will go well with many types of decor. From Traditional to Modern. This is a heavy in weight piec...
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1970s Unknown Vintage Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Unique Tropical Florida Style Folding Screen by Tom Francis Atlanta, Savannah
Located in Ft. Lauderdale, FL
This folding screen by the Atlanta and Savannah artist and professor Sam Francis is a splendid display of vibrant colors, tropical fish and parrots. It evokes Florida notions. As a p...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Paint
Smoked Glass Fireplace Screen with Bronze Knobs and Feet
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A smoked glass fireplace screen. The glass is beveled and is on panel supported by two bronze feet. the glass has two spherical knobs, which make moving the piece much easier than tr...
Category
20th Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bronze
Room Divider Shelf by Olaf von Bohr for Kartell, Italy, 1970s
Located in Greding, DE
Large room divider shelf in white designed by Olaf von Bohr for Kartell. Discolored in places. Embossed stamp on the bottom.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Plywood
Playful Crosscut Bamboo Screen by Oly Studio
By Oly Studio
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Playful crosscut bamboo screen by Oly Studio. Made with folding wood frame painted grey.
Dimensions:
70.75"H x 77"W x 1.5"D.
Category
1990s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bamboo
Luxurious Large 4 Panel Screen / Divider by Maitland Smith
Located in Cincinnati, OH
A rich and luxurious looking large four panel wood screen / divider with satin black panels having routed painted grooves in antique gold and silver with red accent striping. This sc...
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Signed Dante Ferretti Surrealist Painted Wood Three-Panel Folding Floor Screen
Located in Hudson, NY
Dante Ferretti (Italian, born 1943). Hand-painted wood, three panel floor screen. Hand-painted in various shades of blue and white in a surrealist style. Signed and dated to verso in the middle panel of the screen, 1993.
Ferretti is an academy award winning film production designer (Ginger & Fred, Casino, Interview with a Vampire, Gangs of New York...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Unique Paravent- Lamp, Illuminated room divider from 1988 by Elsa Prochazka
By Woka Lamps
Located in Vienna, AT
Movable Room- divider with many tiny lamps outside.[nbsp]This piece of art is a unique piece[nbsp]designed by Elsa Prohazka and manufactured by WOKA LAMPS VIENNA[nbsp]for the Exhibition "WIEN MOEBEL" IN 1989, at the Vienna Secession Building. Several artists designed furniture and several manufacturer executed unique pieces of arts. The designers were Luigi Blau...
Category
Late 20th Century Austrian Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Steel
Joseph Konetsky 'Attributed' Folding Screen / Room Divider, Brass, USA, 1940s
Located in High Point, NC
A folding screen / room divider. In welded brass. Features floral motifs, organic lines are enhanced by leaves. Design and production is attributed to Joseph Konetsky, Studio Philade...
Category
1940s American Vintage Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Spectacular Four Panel Hand-Painted Lacquer Screen
Located in London, GB
Floor standing folding screen, four-fold,
lacquered, 165cm H x 162cm L extended, with floral
Decoration and butterfly.
This four panel screen is made of painted lacquer with abund...
Category
1970s French Vintage Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Lacquer
Large Vivai del Sud Standing Mirror or Screen in Lacquered Wood
Located in Barcelona, ES
Large screen or standing mirror by Vivai del Sud, Italy, 1970's. Rare version in black lacquered wood and mirror produced in late 1970's by this Rome based company.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Mirror, Wood
Colorful Modernist Folding Screen by Sandro Petti
Located in New York, NY
Colorful modernist folding screen by Sandro Petti.
Green and purple leather with a chrome frame and lucite feet.
Literature: Casa Vogue March 1974...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Chrome
White Washed Oak and Aged Brass Six Panel Folding Screen by Steve Chase
By Steve Chase
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Glamorous 1990’s six panel folding screen by Steve Chase.
Out of a Steve Chase design estate in Rancho Mirage CA.
Constructed of solid white washed o...
Category
1990s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Maple Marquetry Six-Panel Screen by David Linley
By David Linley
Located in NYC, NY
David Linley maple marquetry six-panel screen.
Measures: 6 ft. 2 3/4 in. x 17 3/4 in. (each panel).
By repute, the screen was gifted to the current owner directly from David Li...
Category
1990s British Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Maple
Dramatic Gilded Silver and Black Lacquer Folding Screen
Located in Highland, IN
This folding screen is visually arresting with a wonderful array of artful designs carved in shallow relief and gilded in silver. The playfulness of the decoration reminds us of Paul...
Category
1970s American Vintage Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Silver
Vicente Wolf Four-Panel Screen
By Vicente Wolf
Located in New York, NY
A four-panel screen designed by Vicente Wolf. Dark wood frame encasing woven hemp panels. 69" tall, expands to 84" wide. Two available. Sold separately.
Category
20th Century Dominican Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Hemp, Wood
Late 20th Century Four-Panel Room Divider or Screen by Designer "Yamo"
By Yamo
Located in Troy, NY
Tall four-panel screen / room divider by the Artist / designer "Yamo".
Straddling French and Algerian cultures, Yamo has created a sophisticated range of art furniture. Achieving a s...
Category
20th Century French Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Plywood, Rope
Maximalist Four-Panel Hand Painted Screen, After Jean Cocteau, 1950s
By Jean Cocteau
Located in Miami, FL
A striking surrealist hand painted floor screen comprised of four canvas panels with profiles centering a "visage de faune" (faun's face), a...
Category
1950s French Vintage Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Modern Three-Panel Screen Divider with Steel and Marble Finish
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This stunning and stylish decorative screen makes a wonderful accent divider or wall art, combining sculpted steel frame with parquet marble inlays. Perfect room divider or screen fo...
Category
20th Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Spectacular Trompe L'Oeil Marquetry Screen by Peter Niczewski
By peter niczewski
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A stunning showcase of woodworking virtuosity, Niczewski used this three-panel birch screen as a canvas to create a surrealistic tableau out of wood veneer. Every letter in the newsp...
Category
Late 20th Century English Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Andrianna Shamaris Rare Rosewood Screen
Located in New York, NY
Exquisite rare antique rosewood carved into this beautiful screen or room divider.
Andrianna Shamaris. The Leader In Modern Organic Design™
Category
Early 20th Century Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood, Rosewood, Reclaimed Wood
Half-Size FSW-6 Screen by Charles and Ray Eames
Located in New York, NY
Half-size FSW-6 screen in ash plywood and canvas. Designed by Charles and Ray Eames and manufactured by Herman Miller, Zeeland, MI, circa 1948. Unmarked.
Category
Mid-20th Century German Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas, Plywood
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Stunning American Crafts Modernist Bench-Made Bookcase, Divider, Shelving
By James Mont
Located in Buffalo, NY
Stunning American Crafts Modernist- bench-made (BESPOKE) Bookcase, Room Divider, Shelving uit. VERY Asian modernist Mont inspired, Wonderfully handcrafted. Honduran Mahogany. Brass p...
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Marsura Salvino Forged Iron Fire Screen, Italy, 1970s
Located in London, GB
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Italian Modern Modular Equipped Wall Fiocco Pierluigi Spadolini Kartell, 1970s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern Modular equipped wall mod. Fiocco by Pierluigi Spadolini for Kartell, 1970s
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Located in New York, NY
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Modern screens and room dividers for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Modern screens and room dividers for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage screens and room dividers created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include more furniture and collectibles, building and garden elements, decorative objects and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, wood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Modern screens and room dividers made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and North America pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original screens and room dividers, popular names associated with this style include Draga & Aurel, Kiki van Eijk, Marco Zito, and Sebastiano Bottos. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for screens and room dividers differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $928 and tops out at $180,000 while the average work can sell for $7,200.
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