Modern Home Accents
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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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Style: Modern
Vintage English luggage Maps & Guide case and Hat box
Located in London, GB
Vintage English luggage maps & guide case and hat box
English, 20th Century
Round case: height 29cm, diameter 41cm
Map case: height 27cm, width 27cm, depth...
Category
20th Century English Modern Home Accents
Materials
Leather
PORTOFINO - Light blue trolley - Your travel companion
Located in Ronco Briantino, MB
The sound of the waves of the sea, the legends of sailors, the secrets of the Mediterranean. A wonderful world is contained in Portofino, the luxury suitcase that pays homage to the ...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Lelapa Hand Carved and Cast Solid Brass Decorative TOTEM Sculpture Set
By Egg Designs
Located in Bothas Hill, KZN
All our TOTEM sculptures are hand carved in Southern Africa from sustainable alien timber by a group of Zimbabwean artists who set their own prices, th...
Category
2010s African Modern Home Accents
Materials
Steel, Brass
Opinion Ciatti Ombres de Chats #2 Bookend
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ombres de Chats by Angelo Barcella are poetic objects, delicate table sculptures. Shadows of curious, busy, sore, angry or bored cats, instants which are made eternal when transforme...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Steel
Kartell Upper Step Ladder in Cobalt by Alberto Meda, Paolo Rizzatto
By Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This stepladder has a strong personality and great functionality. It is also a successful marriage of form and function. Its pragmatism is made possible by the technology employed by...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Aluminum
Kartell Upper Step Ladder in Crystal by Alberto Meda, Paolo Rizzatto
By Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This stepladder has a strong personality and great functionality. It is also a successful marriage of form and function. Its pragmatism is made possible by the technology employed by...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Aluminum
Contemporary Handmade Brass Bookend "Hippos" in Ancient Greek Forms by Anaktae
By ANAKTAE
Located in Athens, GR
Contemporary, handcrafted bookend, model "Hippos" in oxidized brass.
This bookend is part of the "Althaea Series", a collection of four bookends in brass Inspired by ancient Greek symbols...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Greek Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Baleri Italia Cartoons Screen in White Paper by Luigi Baroli
Located in Milan, IT
Screen with free-standing structure in corrugated paper-board extracted from pure cellulose. Completely recyclable and non-pollutive. Upper and lower edges in techno-polymer in matte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Paper
Baleri Italia Cartoons Screen in Havana Paper by Luigi Baroli
Located in Milan, IT
Screen with free-standing structure in corrugated paper-board extracted from pure cellulose. Completely recyclable and non-pollutive. Upper and lower edges in techno-polymer in matte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Paper
Origin Polcha X Atelier Veneer Claustra
By POLCHA
Located in PARIS, FR
This claustra is the first piece completely imagined by Polcha.
It was entirely made from wood scraps and manufactured by Atelier Veneer, a French carpentry workshop. Each slat r...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Cuyo Large Alpaca Silver & Blue Onyx Stone Pair of Bookends
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Cuyo bookends are solid heavy beautiful pieces of geometrical onyx stone, mostly in square base and round top. Very sharm for a personal library.
Our pieces are made by hand. One of...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Home Accents
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
Salta Round Cream Onyx Stone Pair of Bookends
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Home Accents
Materials
Onyx, Stone, Metal
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 Home Accents
Materials
Wood, Birch
Vintage Gucci Large Black Leather Suitcase Luggage Travel Bag Green Red Webbing
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Gucci Large Black Leather Suitcase Luggage Travel Bag Green Red Webbing. Item featured is original vintage Gucci luggage, gold gilt "Made in Italy by Gucci" stamp, high quali...
Category
1980s Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Leather
Vintage Gucci Black Canvas & Leather Suitcase Luggage Travel Bag Set - 2 Pcs
By Gucci
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Gucci Black Canvas & Leather Suitcase Luggage Travel Bag Set - 2 Pcs. Item features original vintage Gucci luggage, one larger and one smaller suitcase, gold gilt "Made in It...
Category
1980s Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Canvas
Opinion Ciatti Ombres de Chats #3 Bookend
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ombres de Chats by Angelo Barcella are poetic objects, delicate table sculptures. Shadows of curious, busy, sore, angry or bored cats, instants which are made eternal when transforme...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Steel
Modern Black Oak Ladder, Medium
By Lostine
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Our Black Bloak Ladders are made of solid white oak finished with ink to blacken them while still letting the natural beauty of the wood grain come through. We use them to display blankets, towels or scarves. Great at the beach house for bathing suits and towels, as a drying rack for lavender or herb or in a guest room...
Category
2010s American Modern Home Accents
Materials
Oak
Vintage Gucci Black Canvas and Leather Suitcase Luggage His and Hers Set - 2 Pcs
By Gucci
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Gucci Black Canvas and Leather Suitcase Luggage His and Hers Set - 2 Pcs (A). Item featured is an original vintage Gucci luggage, one larger and one smaller suitcase, gold gi...
Category
1980s Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Canvas
Manks Magazine rack
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Our Architecture and Cabinetry furniture collection is a collaboration with the most renowned Mexican architects. In this collection we explore, through signature cabinetmaking, the ...
Category
2010s Mexican Modern Home Accents
Materials
Steel
Opinion Ciatti Ombres de Chats #4 Bookend
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ombres de Chats by Angelo Barcella are poetic objects, delicate table sculptures. Shadows of curious, busy, sore, angry or bored cats, instants which are made eternal when transforme...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Steel
Opinion Ciatti Ombres de Chats #6 Bookend
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ombres de Chats by Angelo Barcella are poetic objects, delicate table sculptures. Shadows of curious, busy, sore, angry or bored cats, instants which are made eternal when transforme...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Steel
Penca Room Divider
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Penca is a line of outdoor furniture with a strong Mexican identity, designed for residential spaces as well as for common areas of restaurants or boutique hotels.
The concept of the...
Category
2010s Mexican Modern Home Accents
Materials
Steel
Modern Sculptural Wood Room Divider by Sebastiano Bottos, Italia
Located in Pordenone, IT
The "Cortina" screen designed by Sebastiano Bottos is a sculptural piece of furniture handcrafted by assembling extroflexed wood elements, the result of an innovating processing tech...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Penca Room Divider Low
Located in Ciudad de México, MX
Penca is a line of outdoor furniture with a strong Mexican identity, designed for residential spaces as well as for common areas of restaurants or boutique hotels.
The concept of the...
Category
Early 2000s Mexican Modern Home Accents
Materials
Steel
Aurora Pink Portal Glass Bookends, ANDREW HUGHES
Located in New York, NY
The Portal design is a simple exercise in optics and color. The Aurora color and reflective light are diffused by a surface etching on the top third of the interior of each bookend. ...
Category
2010s American Modern Home Accents
Materials
Blown Glass
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 Home Accents
Materials
Hardwood
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 Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Paravento 2018, Screen 2018
Located in Mosciano Sant'angelo, TE
Four rectangular doors in walnut and perforated sheet shield spaces drawing light and dark suggestions.
Intuit, grasp the forms, which beyond the screen are defined in space.
A thin ...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Iron
Spinzi Capo Sculptural Bookend in Metal, Tiffany Blue, Collectible Decorative
By Spinzi
Located in Milano, IT
Capo is a sculptural bookend designed by Spinzi Milano and hand-crafted from metal. Finished in shades of bright colors, it is designed to add an unexpected and playful touch of vibr...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal, Steel
Spinzi Capo Sculptural Bookend in Metal, Bright Pink, Collectible Decorative
By Spinzi
Located in Milano, IT
Capo is a sculptural bookend designed by Spinzi Milano and hand-crafted from metal. Finished in shades of bright colors, it is designed to add an unexpected and playful touch of vibr...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal, Steel
Medium & Large, Bookends Cuyo, Onix Stone & Silver Alpaca
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
4" x 4" x 7.8"
4.8 "x 4.8" x 9.5"
Cuyo bookends are solid heavy beautiful pieces of geometrical onyx stone, mostly in square base and round top. Very sharm for a personal library.
...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Home Accents
Materials
Onyx, Stone, Metal
Pair of 2 Small Fin Bronze Bookends by Henry Wilson
By Henry Wilson
Located in Geneve, CH
Pair of 2 Small Fin Bronze Bookends by Henry Wilson
Dimensions: W 8 x D 6 x H 13 cm
Materials: Bronze
Fin bookends come in two sizes. Each are made, finished and polished in Sydney,...
Category
2010s Australian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bronze
Louis Vuitton Beauty Case Paris 2000 Ca
Located in Milano, IT
Louis Vuitton Beauty Case (Boîte à flacons) covered in Monogram canvas. The hardware is brass, the nails are branded. Interior fitted with mirror case, leather loops for bottles and ...
Category
Early 2000s French Modern Home Accents
Materials
Canvas
Louis Vuitton Beauty Case Paris 90s
Located in Milano, IT
Louis Vuitton Beauty Case (Boîte pharmacie) covered in Monogram canvas. The hardware is brass, the nails are branded. Interior fitted with mirror case, leather loops for bottles and ...
Category
1990s French Modern Home Accents
Materials
Canvas
Khada Hand Carved Decorative Totem Sculpture #3
By Egg Designs
Located in Bothas Hill, KZN
All our totem sculptures are hand carved in Southern Africa from sustainable alien timber by a group of Zimbabwean artists who set their own prices, thus making them fair trade.
Th...
Category
2010s South African Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Khada Hand Carved Decorative Totem Sculpture #2
By Egg Designs
Located in Bothas Hill, KZN
All our totem sculptures are hand carved in Southern Africa from sustainable alien timber by a group of Zimbabwean artists who set their own prices, thus making them fair trade.
Th...
Category
2010s South African Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Khada Hand Carved Decorative Totem Sculpture #1
By Egg Designs
Located in Bothas Hill, KZN
All our totem sculptures are hand carved in Southern Africa from sustainable alien timber by a group of Zimbabwean artists who set their own prices, thus making them fair trade.
Th...
Category
2010s African Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Marble Obelisks, Pair
Located in New York, NY
A substantial pair of marble Obelisks, in the Modern style, circa mid-20th century. Pair are a very dark green, forest green, with white and light-green veining. Very good condition ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Marble
Pair of Polished Brass and Chrome Tennis Racket Bookends
Located in New York, NY
Nice set of brass and chrome tennis racket bookends. Features a brass tennis racket and ball on each. Has thin foam on bottom of each to prevent scratching furniture. 5.5" high. Grea...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Early Italian Art Glass pair of Apples Bookends
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Italian Art Glass apples. Wonderful deep red transparent color with intentional bubbles on the surface of the apples. The green stem is a seperatly added piece completing eac...
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Blown Glass
Lelapa Hand Carved and Cast Solid Brass Decorative SQUARE TOTEM Sculpture Set
By Egg Designs
Located in Bothas Hill, KZN
All our TOTEM sculptures are hand carved in Southern Africa from sustainable alien timber by a group of Zimbabwean artists who set their own prices, thus making them fair trade. We t...
Category
2010s African Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass, Steel
Lelapa Hand Carved and Cast Solid Brass Decorative RING TOTEM Sculpture
By Egg Designs
Located in Bothas Hill, KZN
All our TOTEM sculptures are hand carved in Southern Africa from sustainable alien timber by a group of Zimbabwean artists who set their own prices, thus making them fair trade. We t...
Category
2010s African Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass, Steel
Lelapa Hand Carved and Cast Solid Brass Decorative HORN TOTEM Sculpture
By Egg Designs
Located in Bothas Hill, KZN
All our TOTEM sculptures are hand carved in Southern Africa from sustainable alien timber by a group of Zimbabwean artists who set their own prices, thus making them fair trade. We t...
Category
2010s African Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass, Steel
Madeira Room Divider
By Project 213A
Located in Macieira de Sarnes, PT
Madeira Room Divider
Designed by Project 213A in 2023
Foldable screen in four panels made from solid chestnut wood varnished in a translucent white finis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Home Accents
Materials
Chestnut
Pair of Leather and Brass Bookends, Gucci, Italy, c. 1970
By Gucci
Located in New York City, NY
Classic, refined bookends from Gucci, decorated with patinated brass horsebits and a contrast stitched leather.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
1990s WORLD GLOBE Nystrom Sculptural Relief
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Nystrom division of Herff Jones
Vintage World Globe
20 h x 17 diameter
Unrestored vintage
Refer to images shown.
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Modern Wood Sculpture Wall Screen / Room Divider by Pierre Sarkis
Located in Guatemala City, Central America
Modern wood sculpture wall screen by Pierre Sarkis from Celine collection. Inspired in the rhythm of ocean waves, beauty of fluid movement and feminine cadenza by basic elements and ...
Category
2010s Guatemalan Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood, Mahogany
Contemporary 4 Panel Folding Screen
By DING DONG
Located in Matosinhos, 13
Yosemite is a Contemporary 4 Panel Folding Screen, designed by the Portuguese Architecture & Interior Design Studio Ding Dong.
The screen has 2 ...
Category
2010s Portuguese Modern Home Accents
Materials
Oak
The Onyx Screen by Giampiero Tagliaferri
Located in Geneve, CH
The Onyx Screen by Giampiero Tagliaferri
Limited Edition Of 8 Pieces
Dimensions: D 5 x W 175 x H 180 cm.
Materials: White onyx and steel.
Giampiero Taglia...
Category
2010s American Modern Home Accents
Materials
Onyx, Steel
Handmade Glass Bookends by Blenko - a Pair
By Blenko Glass
Located in Miami, FL
Pair of handmade glass bookends with smooth top and textured sides by Blenko Glass, USA circa 1980s.
Measurement for each block: w3.5" d4" h3.75"
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Home Accents
Materials
Glass
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 Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Baleri Italia Cartoons Low Screen in White Paper by Luigi Baroli
Located in Milan, IT
Cartoons creates a spatial division that is baroque and minimalist at the same time. The idea of the screen is a sublime mystification: a wall that is not a wall. Corrugated cardboar...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Aluminum
Italian modern Self-supporting screen Cartoons by Luigi Baroli for Baleri, 2000s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern Self-supporting screen Cartoons by Luigi Baroli for Baleri, 2000s
Screen mod. Cartoons characterized by a self-supporting structure made of light gray corrugated cardb...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Aluminum
Contemporary 21st Century Capo Metal Bookend by Spinzi, Italian Modern Design
By Spinzi
Located in Milano, IT
Capo is a collection of bookends designed by Milano based studio Spinzi, and artisanally handcrafted from metal in Italy. They are small in size yet big in personality: rather then s...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
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 Home Accents
Materials
Bamboo
Marblelized Brass Pyramid Obelisk by Maitland Smith
Located in Palm Springs, CA
1970’s marbleized brass pyramid obelisk attributed to Maitland Smith.
In original vintage condition shows minor wear consistent with age(see detail photos).
Category
1970s American Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Kartell Upper Step Ladder in Orange Red by Alberto Meda, Paolo Rizzatto
By Kartell
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This stepladder has a strong personality and great functionality. It is also a successful marriage of form and function. Its pragmatism is made possible by the technology employed by...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Aluminum
20th Century Louis Vuitton Garment Bag Classic Monogram Canvas 80s
Located in Turin, Turin
The Garment Cover by Louis Vuitton from the 80s is fashioned from Monogram canvas with a well-designed construction to insure a comfortable carry, even wit...
Category
1980s French Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Leather
Modern home accents for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Modern home accents 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 home accents created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include more furniture and collectibles, decorative objects, building and garden elements and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, wood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Modern home accents 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 home accents, popular names associated with this style include AIREDELSUR, Draga & Aurel, Maharam, and ANAKTAE. 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 home accents differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $80 and tops out at $180,000 while the average work can sell for $2,818.
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