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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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 Ships From: USA
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
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
Tri-Fold Opaque Lacquer Folding Screen / Room Divider
Located in Newburgh, NY
Sculptural, handcrafted, self-supporting screen for use as a stand-alone or combined to create a larger privacy wall. The tri-fold design can be oriented with the form tapering eithe...
Category
2010s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Hardwood
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
Tri-Fold Solid Walnut Folding Screen or Room Divider
Located in Newburgh, NY
Sculptural, self-supporting screen for use as a stand-alone or combined to create a larger privacy wall. The tri-fold design can be oriented with the form tapering either up or down....
Category
2010s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Walnut
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...
Category
1970s Unknown Vintage Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
Gervasoni Black Three Door Folding Screen in Bamboo by Paola Navone
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Three-door folding screen, Black 90 enhances the naturalness of black bamboo: fine rods of different lengths are interlocked overlapping to give dynamism to the product. A contrast of fullness and emptiness, of seeing and not seeing made possible thanks to the vanishing lines between one rod and the other, allowing our sight to go beyond the immediately apparent. Three doors folding partition...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bamboo
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
Custom Leather 3 Panel Large Folding Screen with Chrome Nailheads
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Fabulous 3 Panel custom leather folding screen with Chrome nailheads. This screen is extremely well made with very high quality leather. The screen would work well as a room divider ...
Category
Early 2000s Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Chrome
Tri-Fold Solid Maple Folding Screen or Room Divider
Located in Newburgh, NY
Sculptural, self-supporting screen for use as a stand-alone or combined to create a larger privacy wall. The tri-fold design can be oriented with the form tapering either up or down....
Category
2010s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bronze
ClassiCon Folding Screen in White by Eileen Gray
By Eileen Gray
Located in New York, NY
The high-tech look that arose in the 1980s and which is still potentially current had an ingenious predecessor. Over half a century ago, Eileen Gray anticipated the cool industrial a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Custom Four-Panel Folding Screen with Nail Head Detailing
Located in Hudson, NY
This custom-made, four-panel room divider is finished with an American Wool plaid fabric and detailed with antique brass nail heads. Each pane...
Category
2010s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
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
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
Chic Mirror-Polished or Powder-Coated Aluminum Room Divider or Screen
By Bestcase, Sight Unseen
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The Song screen by Charles Constantine of Bestcase is a more striking, modern take on the Eames’s iconic 1946 FSW screen. Made from mirror-polished aluminum, it also subverts the idea of traditional folding screens, once adorned with mythological depictions or historical narratives, by mirroring the present rather than reflecting on the past. The screen is fully customizable - panels can be added or taken away, with your choice of finish (a powder coated version of the screen is priced at $4,200).
The Song Screen is part of Sight Unseen's first-ever furniture collection, creative directed by Sight Unseen founders Monica Khemsurov and Jill Singer and produced in collaboration with Bestcase, a Long Island...
Category
2010s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Aluminum
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
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
Marie Suri "Constellation" Fire Screen
By Marie Suri
Located in New York, NY
Marie Suri
The "Constellation" fire screen
Fire screen with scattered 2.5” and 4” steel medallions with bronze decoration. Mesh backing makes these ...
Category
2010s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bronze
Gervasoni Black Screen in Bamboo by Paola Navone
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Black bamboo screen, Black 199 is a clear reference to the earth and the naturalness of the materials. Like a tapestry hung within a frame in Canaletto walnut available in wood lacqu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bamboo
James Bearden "Meteor Storm Screen"
Located in New York, NY
Sonic sculpture of torch-cut and polychromed steel, fused bronze, solvent dyes, and glass enamel. An elongated version of "Meteor Storm" that can serve as a screen or divider. A 2019...
Category
2010s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bronze, Enamel, Steel
ClassiCon Brick Screen in Black by Eileen Gray
By Eileen Gray
Located in New York, NY
Eileen Gray was fascinated by the beauty of traditional lacquer ware. She learned the centuries-old craft from a Japanese artisan and then perfected her skills over the course of many years. Brick Screen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Stainless Steel
ClassiCon Folding Screen in Red by Eileen Gray
By Eileen Gray
Located in New York, NY
The high-tech look that arose in the 1980s and which is still potentially current had an ingenious predecessor. Over half a century ago, Eileen Gray anticipated the cool Industrial a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
Geometric Oak Room Wood Divider Screen Moon by Ana Volante
By Ana Volante
Located in Miami, FL
Oak wood moon divider
Baltic birch plywood with quarter cut white oak veneer
Designed by Ana Volante
Dimensions each pyramid
160cm x 50cm x 42...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Plywood
GAN Spaces Lan Screen with Oak Wood Frame & Steel in Indigo by Neri&Hu
Located in New York, NY
“Neri&Hu questions the sofa typology. Once the normal typology of a piece of furniture is broken down into its components, seating and rug become a single space.
The back componen...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wool
ClassiCon Folding Screen in Black by Eileen Gray
By Eileen Gray
Located in New York, NY
The high-tech look that arose in the 1980s and which is still potentially current had an ingenious predecessor. Over half a century ago, Eileen Gray anticipated the cool Industrial a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
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
Arflex Vela Screen C in Glass by Bernhardt & Vella
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Two colored glasses with different shapes, but complementary, create a play of transparency. Vela is a screen that divides in a light and simple way, without weighing down the space,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Glass
Custom Leather Screen
Located in Houston, TX
Custom three panel Italian congnac leather screen with nailhead detail. Floor sample with slight imperfection, as is. See photos.
Original retail starting at $7,800.00 C.O.M.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Brass
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
Snake Contemporary Sculptural Wood Bronze Patina Room Divider Screen Green
By Grain
Located in Bainbridge Island, WA
A large screen composed of solid wood posts with handcut hinges and bronze sheet. The form evokes prayer flags or a snaking river.
Dimensions:
Depth 2.75 in / 7 cm
Width 122 in / ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bronze
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
SECRE Screen in Brass and Black Steel by Soraya Osorio
Located in Vero Beach, FL
Secre screen and room divider reveals its duality in its texture, pattern and finishes. Disclosing the screens beauty from any vantage point.
Finished in ebon black steel on one side and orbital...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Steel, 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
N4 Folding Screen in Bleached Oak
Located in Brooklyn, NY
The N4 screen can be used as a room divider or piece of freestanding sculpture. Handcrafted out of solid white oak and held together only with dowels, the scr...
Category
2010s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Oak
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
Mayfair Lacquered Screen by Ryan Korban
Located in New York, NY
Mayfair screen by Ryan Korban consist of three high gloss lacquered panels with beautiful nickel finished hinges. Each striking screen is handmade in New Y...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Lacquer
Snake Contemporary Sculptural Wood Bronze Patina Room Divider Screen
By Grain
Located in Bainbridge Island, WA
A large screen composed of solid wood posts with hand-cut hinges and bronze sheet. The form evokes prayer flags or a snaking river. The blue color of the bro...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Bronze
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
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
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
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
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
"Accent", Monumental Charcoal on Canvas Painting by Jessica Scott Felder
By Jessica Scott-Felder
Located in Hanover, MA
11 foot by 9 foot frame stretched charcoal on canvas painting by Jessica Scott-Felder titled "Accent" 2009.
Jessica utilizes drawings and installations with antique objects to transform spaces into psychological realms that are suggestive of maternal figures and ancestral and social narratives. Initially, the chairs represented matriarchal presence and have currently expanded to ancestry. Jessica’s work addresses issues in identity, heritage, culture, and society’s rapidly disintegrating connection to the past.
Jessica's grandmother's living room has been a focal point of her work. She is visually exploring the suggestive qualities of furniture placement. Many of the images were derived from “Last Year at Marienbad...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Canvas
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
Modernist Four-Panel Folding Screen
Located in New York, NY
A modernist four-panel folding screen.
Solid oak and nickel.
Measure: Approximate 65 inches end to end.
Category
2010s American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Nickel
Lionel Jadot and Zaventem Ateliers, Spin Love, BE
By Lionel Jadot
Located in New York, NY
Bringing together 15 of Europe’s most exceptional artisans working across the design spectrum, Jadot has spearheaded the creation of an extraordinary mixed-media, multi-functional object in the form of an unique ping pong table, titled “Spin Love.” In addition to its recreational use, "Spin Love" can be divided with each table top elevated to serve as a double-sided room divider or screen, with a matching pair of standing floor lamps. One of the most ambitious works of decorative arts today, “Spin Love” connects the talents of the idiosyncratic, visionary artists that make up Zaventem Ateliers. Jadot is the mastermind behind Zaventem, an experimental artist workspace accommodating 32 separate workshops dedicated to the production and transformation of materials, allowing a group of exceptional craftsmen working in ceramics, leather, metal, marble, textiles, and wood to collaborate, experiment, and inspire one another. As a physical representation of the ingenuity and creative drive housed within the walls of Zaventem Ateliers, “Spin Love” asserts their commitment to old world craftsmanship, free thinking, and modern innovation.
In conceiving “Spin Love” Jadot aimed to create a work where visionary design and idiosyncratic craftsmanship meets the already collaborative energy, humor and playfulness he had amassed within Zaventem. Each individual element, from the mixed media table tops to the unique ping pong paddles, showcases the height of the artists’ specific expertise.
The double sided clover-shaped table top can be divided into two separate tables, each with the ability to be raised to stand upright, acting as a dual-faced screen allowing for four distinct visual options.One bifurcated table half features black and white geometrically patterned leather collages from Niyona, a French custom leather design company. Its corresponding half is composed of precious wood marquetry work by Alexandre Lowie with a steel star detail jewelry designer by Luna Lotta. The second table is composed of an integration of metalwork by Maison Jonckers and textiles from Studio Krjst enclosed within poured resin. On one side each artist’s work is tessellated into a tightly controlled pattern. Flipping the table over reveals an expressive and chaotic assemblage of patterns and textures.
The freestanding, movable lamps...
Category
2010s Belgian Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Marble, Metal
HOLLY HUNT Arolle Screen
By HOLLY HUNT
Located in Chicago, IL
HOLLY HUNT Arolle screen
Additional Information:
Dimensions: 49.25 W x 9.78 D x 29.9 H inch
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Screens and Room Dividers
Materials
Wood
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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