Modern Furniture
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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
Creator: Artemide
Table Lamp Vacune Model by Eleonore Peduzzi Riva for Artemide, Italy
Located in Milan, Italy
Table lamp in milky and transparent blown glass. Artemide production.
Designed by Eleonore Peduzzi Riva in 1968.
Biography
Eleanora Peduzzi-Riva (born in Milan, 1939) is an Italian...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Artemide Itka Table Light in White by Naoto Fukasawa
Located in Hicksville, NY
Magnificently simple and powerful, Naota Fukasawa’s Itka subtly but uniformly spreads light.
Made of opaline frosted glass on a white lacquered metal base, the table lamp is LED and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
“Big Delta” chandelier by Sergio Mazza for Artemide
By Sergio Mazza, Artemide
Located in Milano, IT
Lampada a sospensione "Delta Grande" , disegnata da Sergio Mazza per Artemide negli anni '60 circa. Menzione d'onore al "compasso d'oro" 1960!
Realizzata in ottone nichelato e vetro ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Italian modern Green plastic Chairs Gaudi by Vico Magistretti for Artemide, 1970
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern Green plastic Chairs Gaudi by Vico Magistretti for Artemide, 1970s
Set of 6 iconic and fantastic chairs mod. Gaudi in green plastic monocoque. The backrest and seat ar...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Arpasia floor lamp by Jean-Marie Valerie for Artemide Anni 90s
By Artemide
Located in Milano, IT
Floor lamp made of anodized aluminum, cherry wood and glass diffuser.
Category
1990s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Lamp Applique Artemide
Located in Roma, IT
Plum-colored blown glass wall lamp.
Composed of three elements anchored in a straight line on a metal frame.
It can be installed horizontally or vertically.
E14 source included...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Italian modern aluminium Aggregato arm lamp by Mari and Fassina, Artemide 1970s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern matt aluminium Aggregato wall arm lamp by Enzo Mari and Giancarlo Fassina for Artemide, 1970s.
Wall lamp, arm, Aggregato model, composed o...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal, Aluminum
Artemide Lineaflat Dimmable Mini Dual Light in White by NA Design
Located in Hicksville, NY
Wall or ceiling mounted luminaire for direct, indirect or direct/indirect lighting.
Extruded aluminium body in textured white or textured anthracite finish with aluminium end caps m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Canadian Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Italian modern Oval Chandelier in white metal and plastic by Artemide, 2000s
By Artemide
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern Oval Chandelier in white metal and plastic by Artemide, 2000s
Chandelier with oval diffuser in opal plastic and ivory white painted metal. The diffuser has a double li...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Area table lamp by Mario Bellini for Artemide, Italy 1974.
Located in Athens, Attiki
Area table lamp by Mario Bellini for Artemide, Italy 1974.
Very good condition
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Paper, Ceramic
Black Megaron floorlamp by Gianfranco Frattini for Artemide, Italy 1979
Located in Langemark-Poelkapelle, BE
Black Megaron floorlamp by Gianfranco Frattini for Artemide, Italy 1979
Timeless and simple design featuring two section body in extruded aluminum with high gloss lacquer finish with...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Toni Cordero "Anchise" Lamp for Artemide
By Toni Cordero, Artemide
Located in Berlin, DE
Unusual, extraordinary and exciting floor lamp by Toni Cordero. Very interesting combination of different materials.
Toni Cordero was born in Lanzo Torinese in 1937. He took his architecture degree in Turin, and in 1962 opened his first design office. His architectural work includes Turin’s ”Delle Alpi” stadium with the collaboration of Hutter, Ossola and Majowiecki, a building based on advanced timber technology in Turin’s Mandria Park in 1997 and the Staff International factory in Noventa-Vicenza in 1996. Among his many important interior design projects we can cite: the Olivetti head offices in Ivrea (1997); the chain of Kenzo boutiques in Europe and the USA (1981); the renovation of the Gio Ponti Montecatini building in Milan, and the conversion of a London place of worship into an apartment hotel and gallery; the 1983 restorations of the Hotel Splendido...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass, Bronze, Chrome
Artemide logico intuitive floor lamp with hand-blown glass
By Artemide
Located in Waxahachie, TX
The Logico floor lamp by Artemide features a pale grey powdered finish metal frame. The diffuser is blown glass with a polished-silk satined finish, giving a different aspect when th...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Table Lamp Nemea Model by Vico Magistretti for Artemide
Located in Milan, Italy
"Simplicity is the most complicated thing in the world." Vico Magistretti
Nemea is an "inverted lamp" that, as Magistretti said in an interview released to Modo in 1979, is perhaps ...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Artemide Mercury Mini Ceiling Light with Dimmer
Located in Hicksville, NY
A “floating” assembly of pebbles, Ross Lovegrove’s Mercury creates a biomorphic relationship between reflected light and its environment. Mini and regular suspension and ceiling vers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum, Stainless Steel
Modern Vintage Silver Metal Floor Lamp Hannes Wettstein for Artemide 1996 Italy
Located in Vienna, AT
Modern vintage floor lamp from liver metal model spy designed by Hannes Wettstein for Artemide 1996, Italy.
An amazing floor lamp designed by Hannes Wettstein model Spy
for Artemide...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Tavolo modello Stadio 120 e 4 sedie Selene - Vico Magistretti - Artemide
Located in Milano, IT
Tavolo in materiale plastico colore nero disegnato da Vico Magistretti negli anni 70 per Artemide. Il tavolo prende il nome di Stadio 120, come da marchio inciso sotto il piano.
Comp...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Modern Vintage Floor Lamp Filoti by Piero Lissoni for Artemide 1993 Italy
Located in Vienna, AT
Modern vintage floor lamp from metal model Filoti by Piero Lissoni for Artemide 1993 Italy.
An iconic floor lamp, this wonderful lighting from metal and plastic designed by Piero Lissoni for Artemide 1993, Italy with a
dimmer Insta Germany 60...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Tizio lamp in black metal, Italian modern Richard Sapper Artemide, 1979
Located in MIlano, IT
Floor lamp model Tizio, with black painted metal frame with small red details, consisting of a base and arms with two pairs of parallel slats, allowing a wide range of positions.
In ...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Adone by Artemide Vintage adjustable Floor Lamp, Italy, 1980s
By Artemide
Located in Milano, IT
Italian-made Vintage Artemide Adone Floor Lamp from the 1980s with a Modern metal design and stone base.
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Stone, Metal
Applique "Talo" grande taille Neil Poulton pour Artemide en aluminium circa 1963
By Artemide, Neil Poulton
Located in AIX-LES-BAINS, FR
Talo est une applique désigné par Neil Poulton pour Artemide. Cette applique propose un design aux lignes épurées.
Talo à une structure en aluminium.
Idéale pour l'éclairage de burea...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Pair of Artemide Mesmeri Wall Sconces by Eric Sole
Located in Mt Kisco, NY
The Mesmeri Wall Sconce is a beautiful sculptural wall lamp designed by Eric Solé for Artemide in Italy. It has a curved aluminum design that hides its bright halogen light. You can ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Italian modern applique Pusicona by Franco Micolitti for Artemide, 1970s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern applique Pusicona by Franco Micolitti for Artemide, 1970s
Applique mod. Pusicona in chromed steel and glass. The structure is composed of an elongated cylindrical stem...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Italian modern White black metal Chandelier Zefiro by Botta for Artemide, 1990s
By Artemide, Mario Botta
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern White black metal Chandelier Zefiro by Mario Botta for Artemide, 1990s
Chandelier mod. Zefiro with black metal rod structure in the center of which a curved perforated...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
1970 Sergio Mazza for Artemide Toga Stacking Outdoor Lounge Chairs White 4 Avail
By Artemide, Sergio Mazza
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Listed for sale is a single (multiple chairs are available, but the price listed is for each chair) Toga lounge chair, designed by Sergio Mazza and produced by Artemide in Italy. Thi...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Plastic, Fiberglass
Montjuïc floor lamp by Santiago Calatrava for Artemide, Italy 1990s
Located in Greding, DE
Montjuïc floor lamp with black base and white acrylic lampshade. A small red ball connects the two contrasting elements. The floor lamp was designed by Santiago Calatrava for Artemid...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Iron
Italian modern white black chandelier Zefiro by Mario Botta for Artemide, 1990s
By Artemide, Mario Botta
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern white black chandelier Zefiro by Mario Botta for Artemide, 1990s
Chandelier mod. Zefiro with black metal rod structure in the center of which a curved perforated and w...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Italian modern White black metal Chandelier Zefiro by Botta for Artemide, 1990s
By Artemide, Mario Botta
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern White black metal Chandelier Zefiro by Mario Botta for Artemide, 1990s
Chandelier mod. Zefiro with black metal rod structure in the center of which a curved perforated...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Artemide Tolomeo Lantern Outdoor Floor Lamp
Located in Hicksville, NY
“The Tolomeo family is expanded to include a new outdoor product. The light source is enclosed in a diffusing CAP fitted inside a transparent IP65 plastic unit that recalls old lampp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Artemide Tolomeo Mini Table Lamp in White with Clamp
Located in Hicksville, NY
“No desk lamp should make you use two hands to position it.” Michele De Lucchi. A study in balance and movement, the Tolomeo table lamp is designed for a fully adjustable direction o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum, Stainless Steel
Karim Rashid Designed Floor Lamps for Artemide
By Karim Rashid, Artemide
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Pair of modern floor lamps designed by Karim Rashid for Artemide.
The Artemide Cadmo LED Floor Lamp adds character, measuring over 5 feet tall, with th...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Artemide Athena LED Floor Lamp in Black by Naoto Fukasawa
Located in Hicksville, NY
A minimally elegant floor lamp with indirect LED light diffusion, Athena is timeless and ideal for any environment or style.
Twin black aluminum discs at the base and top are connected by a slender tubular stem standing at 6 feet tall.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Sintesi Table Lamp Design by Ernesto Gismondi for Artemide 1970s
Located in Krefeld, DE
Nice black Sintesi desk lamp designed by Ernesto Gismondi and produced by Artemide in the 1970s. The lamp is in original paint and comes with a E26/E27 socket. The lamp is in in full...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Artemide Yanzi Floor Lamp in Black by Neri&Hu
Located in Hicksville, NY
“Our light proposal pays homage to both the urban and the natural, the rigid and the organic.”
Lyndon Neri-Rossana Hu
The activity of Neri&Hu is founded on constant research and the...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Steel
Artemide Megaron LED Floor Lamp in Black by Gianfranco Frattini
Located in Hicksville, NY
The Artemide Megaron floor LED is the new modern edition of the design classic by Gianfranco Frattini from 1979.
Steel base coated with thermoplastic ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum, Steel
Artemide Logico E26 Wall Light by Michele De Lucchi & Gerhard Reichert
Located in Hicksville, NY
Inspired by the rays of light as they diffuse through the atmosphere, Logico’s blown-glass diffuser takes an organic shape used throughout the collection.
Available in milky white ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Steel
'Ecate' Table Lamp by Toni Cordero for Artemide
By Toni Cordero, Artemide
Located in Los Angeles, CA
'Ecate' table lamp by Toni Cordero for Artemide. Designed and manufactured in Italy, circa 1990. A stone-like, cast-bronze base and conical stem with both brass and steel chain-mail ...
Category
1990s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Steel, Brass
Green Sintesi Table Lamp Design by Ernesto Gismondi for Artemide, circa 1970s
Located in Krefeld, DE
Nice green Sintesi desk lamp designed by Ernesto Gismondi and produced by Artemide in the 1970s. The lamp is in original paint and comes with a E26/E27 socket. The lamp is in in full...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Italian Modern Wall Hanger Signa De Pas D'urbino and Lomazzi for Artemide, 1970s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern Wall hanger Signa by De Pas, D'urbino and Lomazzi for Artemide, 1970s
Wall coat hanger mod. Signa made up of two movable arms in yellow painted tubular metal with bla...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Italian Modern Wall Hanger Signa De Pas D'urbino and Lomazzi for Artemide, 1970s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern Wall hanger Signa by De Pas, D'urbino and Lomazzi for Artemide, 1970s
Wall coat hanger mod. Signa made up of two movable arms in white painted tubular metal with blac...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Italian Modern Iron Metal Plastic Aggregato Lamp by Enzo Mari Artemide, 1970s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern cast iron, metal and plastic Aggregato floor lamp by Enzo Mari for Artemide, 1970s
Aggregato model adjustable floor lamp, with metal structure, cast iron base and mat...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal, Iron
Logico Triple Nested Suspension Pendant in Milky White for Artemide
Located in Glendale, CA
Logico Triple Nested Suspension Pendant in Milky White for Artemide.
Inspired by rays of light as they diffuse through the atmosphere, Logico’s blown-glass diffuser takes an orga...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum, Stainless Steel
Artemide Tizio HAL Classic Table Lamp in Black by Richard Sapper
Located in Hicksville, NY
Tizio was designed by industrial designer Richard Sapper in 1972. The sophisticated principal of fully adjustable balanced counterweights, lack of wires, and electrical conductor arms have made Tizio an illustrious award-winning design of the 20th century.
Born in Germany in 1932, Richard Sapper created the Tizio desk lamp...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Tizio Table Lamp by Richard Sapper for Artemide
Located in Vienna, AT
Tizio table lamp designed by Richard Sapper in 1972. It has been selected for the Compasso d'Oro Industrial design award in 1979. An item of it is par...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum, Brass
Italian modern plastic red Chairs Selene by Vico Magistretti for Artemide, 1960s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian modern plastic red Chairs mod. Selene by Vico Magistretti for Artemide, 1960s
Set of 4 iconic chairs mod. Selene in dark red-burgund...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Artemide Mercury 3000K Ceiling Light with Dimmer
Located in Hicksville, NY
A “floating” assembly of pebbles, Ross Lovegrove’s Mercury creates a biomorphic relationship between reflected light and its environment. Mini and regular suspension and ceiling vers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Stainless Steel, Aluminum
Artemide Disocuri 42 Table Lamp in White
Located in Hicksville, NY
A globe-like diffuser of acid-etched blown glass atop a thermoplastic base, Dioscuri is available in 4 sizes which are all dimmable aside from the smallest. A multiple design-award w...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Glass, Resin
Ilione Spiral Chandelier by Artemide
By Toni Cordero, Artemide
Located in Sacile, PN
Pendant light chandelier designed by Toni Cordero di Montezemolo for Artemide. Chrome spiral with Murano glass charms.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Chrome
1980s Artemide Adone Vintage Metal Adjustable Floor Lamp Stone Base
By Artemide
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1980s Vintage Artemide Adone from Italy Modern Metal Adjustable floor lamp stone base
62 h, adjustable, 15 d x 10.38 adjustable Easy positioning of l...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Stone, Metal
Mania Sconces in Glass by Vico Magistretti for Artemide
Located in Los Angeles, CA
“Mania” wall sconces by Vico Magistretti for Artemide in white glass, aged brass and steel. 1960s Italian design. Two glass shells express the simple and clean shape of each sconce. ...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass, Steel
Artemide TETI Wall & Ceiling Light in White by Vico Magistretti
Located in Hicksville, NY
A prototypical base for a bulb transformed into a design icon.
Wall or ceiling mounted, thermoplastic white resin body. Multiple configurations and groupings possible.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Resin
Richard Sapper ‘Tizio’ Table Lamp Artemide, Italy, 1972
Located in London, GB
Richard Sapper (1932-2015) was born in German but worked in Italy, and his work brings together the best design principles of both nations. On one hand the ‘Tizio’ lamp possesses a northern European emphasis on functionalism. It was conceived as the ideal table lamp by its creator because of its wide range of movements, based on precisely calibrated counterweights at the end of each of the arms. On the other hand, it has a radically lithe profile and dusky, equipoised sense of style redolent of southern European sensibilities. It has become “an icon of high-tech design”, according to the MoMA where an example exhibited, and had its heyday as the lamp of choice for the design-conscious bright young things...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Artemide Nesso Table Lamp in White
Located in Hicksville, NY
Part of the “Modern Classics” reissued line, Nesso was a marvel of ABS thermoplastic injection-molding when first introduced in 1965 thus bringing Industrial materials and methods to...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Triangular Suspension Pendant by Mario Botta for Artemide, Italy 1980s
By Artemide, Mario Botta
Located in Chicago, IL
Designed by Swiss Architect Mario Botta (b.1943) for Artemide in the 1980s, this triangular pendant light has a black enameled metal frame whi...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Tolomeo Mini Table Lamp Fassina De Lucchi Pair of Desk Light for Artemide, Italy
Located in Miami, FL
Pair, Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina designed these retractable and adjustable Table or Desk light for Artemide, Italy.
Designed by Michele De Lucchi and Giancarlo Fassina,...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum, Stainless Steel, Metal
Artemide Gople Mini Max 7W E12 Table Lamp in Silver by Bjarke Ingels Group
By Artemide
Located in Hicksville, NY
Gople Lamp is the latest product in the ongoing collaboration between Artemide and Bjarke Ingels Group. Gople is crafted of a pill shape, the glass is blown according to ancient Vene...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Glass
Artemide NH Wall Light
Located in Hicksville, NY
NH is a simple, versatile, practical appliance that can be laid or suspended. A white blown glass sphere slides along a brushed brass ring, which allows it to take different position...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
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