Modern Sideboards
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Metal
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Sideboards
Granite
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Wood, Rosewood
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood, Walnut, Birdseye Maple
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood, Walnut, Birdseye Maple
2010s German Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Danish Modern Sideboards
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood, Walnut, Birdseye Maple
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Marble, Brass
2010s European Modern Sideboards
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Wood, Walnut, Birdseye Maple
2010s French Modern Sideboards
Cedar, Lacquer
2010s Indian Modern Sideboards
Metal, Brass
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Marble, Metal
2010s French Modern Sideboards
Oak
2010s French Modern Sideboards
Walnut
2010s French Modern Sideboards
Metal
2010s German Modern Sideboards
Birch
2010s French Modern Sideboards
Cedar, Lacquer
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Brass, Other
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Other
2010s French Modern Sideboards
Lava, Bronze
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Metal, Brass, Steel, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Modern Sideboards
Metal
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Brass, Other
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Brass, Other
2010s American Modern Sideboards
Brass, Other
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Oak
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Sideboards
Glass, Wood, Lacquer
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Oak
2010s European Modern Sideboards
Wood, Lacquer
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Aluminum, Iron
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Metal, Brass, Steel, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Modern Sideboards
Wood
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Marble, Copper, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Marble, Brass, Steel
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Glass, Wood
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Brass
2010s Portuguese Modern Sideboards
Stainless Steel, Brass
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Aluminum, Iron
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Oak
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Oak
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Oak
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Glass, Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Aluminum, Iron
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Glass, Wood, Walnut
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Oak
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Sideboards
Copper, Steel
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Oak
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Oak
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Marble
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Glass, Wood, Walnut
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Aluminum, Iron
2010s Italian Modern Sideboards
Oak
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Glass, Wood
2010s Spanish Modern Sideboards
Glass, Wood