Modern Loveseats
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
1970s American Vintage Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Walnut
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Velvet
2010s American Modern Loveseats
Steel
2010s Brazilian Modern Loveseats
Metal
2010s American Modern Loveseats
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Wood, Cedar
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Loveseats
Brass, Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Loveseats
Textile
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Wool
2010s Portuguese Modern Loveseats
Metal
1970s Danish Vintage Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Fiberglass
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Loveseats
Leather
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Velvet
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Oak, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Plastic
2010s Philippine Modern Loveseats
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Plastic
2010s American Modern Loveseats
Steel
1970s American Vintage Modern Loveseats
Upholstery, Acrylic, Walnut
2010s American Modern Loveseats
Steel
1940s German Vintage Modern Loveseats
Metal, Chrome
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Plastic
2010s Philippine Modern Loveseats
Rattan, Walnut
1960s Vintage Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Rattan, Reed, Wood, Lacquer
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Plastic
2010s Italian Modern Loveseats
Leather, Upholstery, Wood
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Plastic
2010s Spanish Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Foam, Polystyrene
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Plastic
2010s South African Modern Loveseats
Brass, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Plastic
20th Century American Modern Loveseats
Metal
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Loveseats
Steel
2010s Spanish Modern Loveseats
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Upholstery
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Loveseats
Pine
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Fabric
2010s Portuguese Modern Loveseats
Metal, Steel
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Loveseats
Fiberglass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Marble
20th Century American Modern Loveseats
Leather, Upholstery, Wood
2010s Austrian Modern Loveseats
Marble, Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Marble
2010s Guatemalan Modern Loveseats
Upholstery, Wood
1980s Swiss Vintage Modern Loveseats
Steel
2010s Philippine Modern Loveseats
Rattan, Maple
2010s Austrian Modern Loveseats
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Swiss Modern Loveseats
Leather
20th Century American Modern Loveseats
Wicker
2010s Philippine Modern Loveseats
Rattan, Maple
2010s German Modern Loveseats
Steel