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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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: Carlo Moretti
Large Troncocono Vase in Red and White by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
This vase sums up the essential qualities of stability, beauty, color, price and distinction of the Carlo Moretti brand. Red horizontal streaks on orange and ivory vertical streaks.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Small Troncocono Vase in Grey and White by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
This vase sums up the essential qualities of stability, beauty, color, price and distinction of the Carlo Moretti brand.
Vase in Murano crystal, blown by mouth and hand-finished wi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Tasch Carlo Moretti Murano Contemporary Mouth Blown Vase
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Moretti Tasch Murano contemporary mouth blown vase in clear lightly smoked glass with beige and white opaque streaks.
Part of the I Piccoli col...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Transparent Ovale Table Lamp by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Chosen as one of Architectural Digest “best new lights, 2015”, Ovale is a table lamp of mouth blown Murano glass with mouth blown Murano white opaline glass shade mounted on gilded m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Small Cilla Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Clear Murano Glass Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Table lamp of clear mouth blown Murano glass with chromed brass fixture and transparent and opaline glass cylinders. The lamp was designed in 1993 by Carlo Moretti.
60 watt incandes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Large Ellisse Vase in Blue and White by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Created as the evolution of the Ogiva vase, Ellisse is an object that, thanks to its complex working while hot, achieves the perfect balance between its chromatic components, arousin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Affresco Vase by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Moretti’s iconic glass vases are blown by mouth in transparent Murano Crystal. With their innumerable designs and colors they offer an infinite series of combinations to make y...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Large Cilla Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Clear Murano Glass Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Table lamp of clear mouth blown Murano glass with chromed brass fixture and transparent and opaline glass cylinders. The lamp was designed in 1993 by Carlo Moretti.
60 watt incandes...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Small Eclissi Vase in Orange and Red by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The alternating interplay between transparent and opaque colors and Murano crystal give this fattened sphere the identity of Carlo Moretti. A sequence of orange streaks bound togethe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Bricola Carlo Moretti Contemporary Red and Coral Murano Glass Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Table lamp with Murano glass column, coral/red transparent glass base, truncated cone-shaped fabric shade, and metal fixtures in polished chrome. The lamp was designed by Carlo Moret...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Small Sfera Vase in Grey and Ivory by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The sphere is an archetype that has always been an object of desire. Offered in a variety of colors from the Moretti family’s secret book or in different transparencies, it is an eve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Large Sfera Vase in Black and Red Streaks by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The sphere is an archetype that has always been an object of desire. Offered in a variety of colors from the Moretti family’s secret book or in different transparencies, it is an eve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Large Sfera Vase with White, Grey and Black Spots by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The sphere is an archetype that has always been an object of desire. Offered in a variety of colors from the Moretti family’s secret book or in different transparencies, it is an eve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Small Sfera Vase in White, Grey and Black by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The sphere is an archetype that has always been an object of desire. Offered in a variety of colors from the Moretti family’s secret book or in different transparencies, it is an eve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Truba Mouth Blown Murano Clear and Milk Glass Floor Lamp by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Floor lamp of clear mouth blown Murano glass illuminating body and rod, the illuminating body is adjustable in height, metal base in anthracite painted iron. The lamp was designed in...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Large Ellisse Vase in Ivory, Red and Black Streaks by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Created as the evolution of the Ogiva vase, Ellisse is an object that, thanks to its complex working while hot, achieves the perfect balance between its chromatic components, arousin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Small Ellisse Vase in Grey, Red and Ivory by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Created as the evolution of the Ogiva vase, Ellisse is an object that, thanks to its complex working while hot, achieves the perfect balance between its chromatic components, arousin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Bricola Carlo Moretti Contemporary Black/Red/Clear Murano Glass Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Table lamp with Murano glass column, black/red transparent glass base, truncated cone-shaped fabric shade, and metal fixtures in polished chrome. The lamp was designed by Carlo Moret...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Large Ellisse Vase in White, Grey and Black by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Created as the evolution of the Ogiva vase, Ellisse is an object that, thanks to its complex working while hot, achieves the perfect balance between its chromatic components, arousin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Large Eclissi Vase in Orange and Red by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The alternating interplay between transparent and opaque colors and Murano crystal give this fattened sphere the identity of Carlo Moretti. A sequence of orange streaks bound togethe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Small Sfera Vase in Black and Red by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The sphere is an archetype that has always been an object of desire. Offered in a variety of colors from the Moretti family’s secret book or in different transparencies, it is an eve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Black Ovale Table Lamp by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Chosen as one of Architectural Digest “best new lights, 2015”, Ovale is a table lamp of black mouth blown Murano glass and mouth blown Murano white opaline glass shade mounted on gil...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Large Sfera Vase in Orange, Red, and Ivory by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The sphere is an archetype that has always been an object of desire. Offered in a variety of colors from the Moretti family’s secret book or in different transparencies, it is an eve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Small Eclissi Vase in Red, Ivory, and Grey by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The alternating interplay between transparent and opaque colors and Murano crystal give this fattened sphere the identity of Carlo Moretti. A sequence of ivory streaks bound together...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Small Eclissi Vase in White, Grey, and Black by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The alternating interplay between transparent and opaque colors and Murano crystal give this fattened sphere the identity of Carlo Moretti. The version in the colors milk white/grey/...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Small Ellisse Vase in Ivory, Red, and Black Streaks by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Created as the evolution of the Ogiva vase, Ellisse is an object that, thanks to its complex working while hot, achieves the perfect balance between its chromatic components, arousin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Small Sfera Vase in Orange, Red and Ivory by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The sphere is an archetype that has always been an object of desire. Offered in a variety of colors from the Moretti family’s secret book or in different transparencies, it is an eve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Small Ellisse Vase in Ivory, Grey and Black Streaks by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Created as the evolution of the Ogiva vase, Ellisse is an object that, thanks to its complex working while hot, achieves the perfect balance between its chromatic components, arousin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Large Eclissi Vase in Red, Ivory, and Grey by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The alternating interplay between transparent and opaque colors and Murano Crystal give this fattened sphere the identity of Carlo Moretti. A sequence of ivory streaks bound together...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Small Ellisse Vase in Blue and White by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Created as the evolution of the Ogiva vase, Ellisse is an object that, thanks to its complex working while hot, achieves the perfect balance between its chromatic components, arousin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Drima Floor Lamp by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Floor lamp of clear mouth blown Murano glass with an illuminating body, metal structure in anthracite painted iron and natural brass. The lamp was designed in 1984 by Carlo Moretti a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Snodo Contemporary Milk White Murano Glass Table Lamp by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
An adjustable table lamp in milk white Murano glass designed in 1978 by Carlo Moretti.
Two x 60 watt incandescent bulbs, two x 42 watt ecolamp E27 socket.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Faro Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Murano Grey/White Glass Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
A tall lamp with a Murano glass column, grey/white spiral transparent glass base, truncated cone-shaped fabric shade, and a metal fixture in polished chrome. The lamp was designed by...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Large Sfera Vase in Grey and Ivory by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The sphere is an archetype that has always been an object of desire. Offered in a variety of colors from the Moretti family’s secret book or in different transparencies, it is an eve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Large Eclissi Vase in White, Grey and Black by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The alternating interplay between transparent and opaque colors and Murano crystal give this fattened sphere the identity of Carlo Moretti. The version in the colors milk white/grey/...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Large Ellisse Vase in Grey, Red, and Ivory by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Created as the evolution of the Ogiva vase, Ellisse is an object that, thanks to its complex working while hot, achieves the perfect balance between its chromatic components, arousin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Bricola Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Murano Grey Glass Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Table lamp with Murano glass column, grey/white spiral transparent glass base, a truncated cone-shaped fabric shade, and metal fixtures in polished chrome. The lamp was designed by C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Faro Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Murano Red/Black Glass Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
A tall lamp with a Murano glass column, red/black spiral transparent glass base, a truncated cone-shaped fabric shade, and metal fixtures in polished chrome. The lamp was designed by...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Carlo Moretti Set of Eight White and Blue Murano Glass Goblets
Located in Guaynabo, PR
This is a Carlo Moretti set of 8 white and confined blue color. Murano glass goblets. It depicts a set of bell shaped goblets.
Category
20th Century Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Small I Cinesi Vase in Dark Red by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
By putting three layers of glass on one another in three distinct moments colored opaque glass, clear crystal and colored crystal one achieves the amazing effect of a material that p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Large I Cinesi Vase in White by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
By putting three layers of glass on one another in three distinct moments colored opaque glass, clear crystal and colored crystal one achieves the amazing effect of a material that plays with the light and changes thickness, consistency and chromatic effect.
Two-colored objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Large I Cinesi Vase in Orange by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
By putting three layers of glass on one another in three distinct moments colored opaque glass, clear crystal and colored crystal one achieves the amazing effect of a material that p...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Large Ovale Vase with Red and Black Detail by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Ever since the 1970s the Ovale has been one of the Carlo Moretti company’s exclusive and distinctive forms. Functional and elegant, over the years it has been embellished with applic...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Bosco Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Murano Glass Vase in Purple
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Moretti Bosco contemporary mouth blown Murano glass vase in purple.
Bosco vases can be combined harmoniously in different colors and sizes.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Bosco Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Murano Glass Vase in Clear Purple
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Moretti Bosco contemporary mouth blown Murano glass vase in clear purple.
Bosco can be combined with other Bosco vases, in different colors and sizes, harmoniously.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Nunki Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Murano Glass Vase
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Moretti Nunki contemporary mouth blown Murano glass vase in clear glass with red stripe overlay.
Part of the I Piccoli collection, small in size but gives a considerable amoun...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Efra Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Clear Murano Glass Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Table lamp of clear mouth blown Murano glass, anthracite painted iron and natural brass designed in 1984 by Carlo Moretti and Paolo Martinuzzi.
60 watt incandescent bulb, 42 watt e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Iron, Brass
Small Sfera Vase in Orange, Red and Ivory by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The sphere is an archetype that has always been an object of desire. Offered in a variety of colors from the Moretti family’s secret book or in different transparencies, it is an eve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Standard I Cinesi Vase in Cobalt Blue by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
By putting three layers of glass on one another in three distinct moments colored opaque glass, clear crystal and colored crystal one achieves the amazing effect of a material that plays with the light and changes thickness, consistency and chromatic effect.
Two-colored objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Large Arco Vase in Grey and White by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The Arco is a variation of the Ovale. Proposed in opaque or transparent colors, it is suitable for modern, essential furnishings.
Vase in Murano crystal blown by mouth and hand-fin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Small Troncosfera Vase in White, Grey and Black by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Troncosfera is the result of the combination of two geometrical forms that have always been present in the Carlo Moretti collections: an expression of the greatest stability that uni...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Large Ogiva Vase in Grey, White and Red by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
The elegance of simplicity. Ogiva is an axially symmetrical slender vase that catches your eye from every angle. The combination grey/ivory and crystal spirals crossed by a red strea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Large Mosaico Vase in Black and Gold by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Ever since the 1970s the ovale has been one of Carlo Moretti’s fundamental forms. The black version embellished with gold leaf opaque squares is both elegant and refined.
Oval vases...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Large Troncocono Vase in Red and Green by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
This vase sums up the essential qualities of stability, beauty, color, price and distinction of the Carlo Moretti brand. Red horizontal streaks on green and milk colored vertical str...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Small Troncocono Vase in Red and Green by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
This vase sums up the essential qualities of stability, beauty, color, price and distinction of the Carlo Moretti brand. Red horizontal streaks on green and milk colored vertical str...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Large I Cinesi Vase in Cobalt Blue by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Bright Matisse cobalt blue
By putting three layers of glass on one another in three distinct moments colored opaque glass, clear crystal and colored crystal one achieves the amazing ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Bosco Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Vase
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Moretti Bosco contemporary mouth blown Murano glass vase in orange.
Bosco can be combined with other Bosco vases, sizes and colors, harmoniously.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Albali Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Murano Clear Glass Decanter
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Moretti Albali contemporary mouth blown Murano clear glass decanter, signed and dated.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
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