Modern Stools
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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
Color: Orange
Recognized Seller Listings
Pelleossa Stool in Orange Fabric with Canaletto Walnut Legs by Francesco Faccin
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Inspired by some of the great classics of italian designs, pre-industrial times, it is built with traditional materials and an unique technology, the lathe. The name evokes its simpl...
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Dedo High Stool in Steel Lacquer Legs, Wooden Seat, by Miniforms Lab
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Here you are shown the Dedo high stool in lacquered steel legs with beechwood seat. This stool with an ergonomic seat is in solid beech and steel structure lacquered in 9 colors. The...
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Jasper Morrison Large Hi Pad Stool in Fabric or Leather Upholstery by Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
The Hi pad chair, and accompanying Hi pad Stool, are the result of a production process that represents the perfect balance between technology and artisan...
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Jasper Morrison Small Hi Pad Stool in Fabric or Leather Upholstery by Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
The Hi pad chair, and accompanying Hi pad Stool, are the result of a production process that represents the perfect balance between technology and artisan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
Materials
Foam, Beech, Plywood
Brogliato Traverso Newood Light Bar Stool in Solid Ashwood for Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
BrogliatoTraverso studio has continued to amplify its celebrated family, inspired by classic Windsor chairs, this time in two ultra-light versions: Newood Light chair and Newood Ligh...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
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Stainless Steel
Jasper Morrison Tate Stool Upholstered in Fabric or Leather for Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
Easy to stack – to a maximum of 6 pieces – the Tate chair designed by Jasper Morrison is part of a range that includes chairs and stools. This series has a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
Materials
Foam, Beech, Plywood
Brogliato Traverso Newood Light Stool in Solid Ashwood for Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
BrogliatoTraverso studio has continued to amplify its celebrated family, inspired by Classic Windsor chairs, this time in two ultra-light versions: Newood Light chair and Newood Ligh...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
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Foam, Ash, Beech
Jasper Morrison Tate Stool in Beech Plywood with Matte Lacquer for Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
Easy to stack – to a maximum of 6 pieces – the Tate chair designed by Jasper Morrison is part of a range that includes chairs and stools. This series has a ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
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Beech, Plywood
Jasper Morrison Tate Stool in Beech Plywood with Matte Lacquer for Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
Easy to stack – to a maximum of 6 pieces – the Tate chair designed by Jasper Morrison is part of a range that includes chairs and stools. This series has a ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
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Beech, Plywood
Jasper Morrison Bac Chair in Solid Ashwood for Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
Aesthetics and functionality form the perfect union in the Bac chair range. Envisioned by designer Jasper Morrison, these objects of design were inspired by ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
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Wood, Ash
Diverge Stool in Ash Structure, Upholstered Seat, by Skrivo Design
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This stool in wooden ash structure, stained black, anthracite or walnut. Seat upholstered in the listed fabrics. Here you are shown the Diverge stool in wooden ash structure with uph...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
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GUFRAM Mozza Stool & Chair by Giuseppe Raimondi
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
Designed in 1968 by Giuseppe Raimondi, Mozza maintains the same vibrant revolutionary appeal and ability to adapt to countless living needs. Rendered in its present edition in a sexier and slimmer form, Mozza is an upturned truncated and athwart-cut cone on which it would seem impossible to sit. By lying back on its sloping surface of sort polyurethane, though, its structure gives in to body weight until it acquires the shape of a chair with back- and armrests. It's simple but original structural magic that makes it one of a kind. Mozza's external mass misleads you.
Thanks to its lightness, this seat becomes a nomadic and versatile object in the living landscape. The primary seat for the sitting-room at home or the perfect service armchair in the sophisticated and elegant halls of design hotels, Mozza combines the international contemporary style with the characters of the Italian radical design, highlighted by the variety of its contemporary and pop upholstery colours.
ABSTRACT
Designed in 1968 by Giuseppe Raimondi, Mozza is an upturned truncated and athwart-cut cone on which it would seem impossible to sit. By lying back on its sloping surface of sort polyurethane, though, its structure gives in to body weight until it acquires the shape of a chair with back- and armrests. It's simple but original structural magic that makes it one of a kind. Mozza's external mass misleads you. Thanks to its lightness, this seat becomes a nomadic and versatile object in the living landscape.
TECHICAL INFO
Seat of soft polyurethane covered with cloth.
Ø 85x80 cm, 9 Kg Ø 33,5x31,5 in, 20 lb
DID YOU KNOW
1. It's one of the first projects by Gufram – born at the beginning of its activity.
2. It was designed by the first Artistic Director of the brand – Giuseppe Raimondi.
3. Mozza's sloping plane becomes soft when weight is set on it, and it allows you to comfortably sink in it.
4. Mozzo de-constructs the traditional...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
Materials
Fabric, Resin
Neon Stool Set in Acrylic by Umzikim
Located in Milan, IT
They found new beauty by stacking beautifully colored acrylic. With this new technological attempt, I have accomplished the visual beauty of seeing the sunrise or the sunset as it is literally. In particular, with the neon-colored acrylic, we can feel as if this collection is shining on its own. And this completes the collection with the same beauty as the beauty of nature.
Materials: Acrylic Stacked Acrylic...
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21st Century and Contemporary Korean Modern Stools
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Acrylic
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