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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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
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 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 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
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. Made for the first time on the basis of transparent-colored s...
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
Lungomare a Suspension Lamp in Yellow by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Lungomare - the new lighting project from Carlo Moretti.
This collection was created with the designer Diego Chilo in a synergic workshop with the glass Master. In the "factory of o...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Ovale Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Black Murano Glass Table Lamp
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
Chrome
Cilla Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Murano Clear 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 incan...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Chrome
Quati 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...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass, Iron
Kappa Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Murano Glass Vase
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Moretti Kappa contemporary mouth blown Murano glass vase in light clear blue with shades of blue detail.
Part of the I Piccoli collection, the objects are small in size but gi...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
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 fixtures and transparent and opaline glass cylinders. The lamp was designed in 1993 by Carlo Moretti.
60 watt inca...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Chrome
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
Large Torre Vase in Beige by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Irregular forms in Murano crystal take advantage of the contrast between the shiny and opaque, with a result that is totally contemporary.
Vases in Murano crystal that have been mo...
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
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
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 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
Lungomare B Suspension Lamp in Green by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Lungomare - the new lighting project from Carlo Moretti
This collection was created with the designer Diego Chilo in a synergic workshop with the glass Master. In the "factory of ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Lungomare C Suspension Lamp in Orange by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Lungomare - the new lighting project from Carlo Moretti
This collection was created with the designer Diego Chilo in a synergic workshop with the glass Master. In the "factory of ...
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
Chrome
Small I Cinesi Vase in Cobalt Blue by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Matisse bright 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
Large 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
Sturm Carlo Moretti Contemporary Murano Mouth Blown Glass Vase
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Moretti Sturm contemporary mouth blown Murano glass vase in clear glass with light sea foam green base and and sea foam green and white stripes.
Part of the I Piccoli collecti...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Standard 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
Standard I Cinesi Vase in Bright 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
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
Chrome
Bora Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Murano Glasses, Matching Decanter
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Moretti contemporary Bora mouth blown Murano drinking glasses/tumbler and matching decanter in clear with blue and white detail.
Sold as a set of six glasses, each in a diff...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Large I Cinesi Vase in Bright 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
Boblu Carlo Moretti Contemporary Murano Clear and Gold Glass Chandelier
Located in New York, NY
Chandelier made of decorated sphere in Murano clear and milk glass with grey opaque decorations on metal arms with satin chrome finishing that converged in a central glass element.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass
Standard 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 plays with the light and changes thickness, consistency and chromatic effect.
Two-colored objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Small I Cinesi Vase in Bright 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
Set of 8 Carlo Moretti Modern Heavy Blown Glass Drinking Glasses Glassware Italy
Located in Miami, FL
Set of 8 Carlo Moretti modern heavy blown glass drinking glasses, glassware made in Italy.
Each glass is marked underneath with Italy.
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Blown Glass
Trittico Carlo Moretti Vase by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Unique and extraordinary, it comprises the three most outstanding works in the history and creativity of Carlo Moretti. Exclusive objects that go beyond the borders of time, classics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
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
Crystal
Large Torre Vase in Maroon by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Irregular forms in Murano crystal take advantage of the contrast between the shiny and opaque, with a result that is totally contemporary.
Vases in Murano crystal that have been m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Medium Ogiva Vase in Red and White 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 orange/ivory and crystal spirals crossed by a red str...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Orion Carlo Moretti Murano Contemporary Mouth Blown Murano Glass Vase
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Moretti Orion Murano contemporary mouth blown Murano glass vase in clear with blue and red swirls.
Part of the I Piccoli collection, small objects in size but give considerabl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Small I Cinesi Vase in Grey 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
Satin Carlo Moretti Contemporary Murano Glass with Wood Base Table Lamp
Located in New York, NY
Table lamp with wooden base and light source over which a mouth blown transparent and white milk glass round sphere lies. The lamp is adjustable and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Wood, Milk Glass, Blown Glass
Monde Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Murano Glass Vase
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Moretti Monde contemporary mouth blown Murano glass vase in white, orange and gray.
Part of the I Piccoli collection, the objects are small in size but give considerable cause...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Large Troncocono Vase with Grey and White Base 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. Made for the first time on the basis of transparent-colored s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Small Troncosfera Vase in Grey 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 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
Novel Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Murano Glass Vase
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Moretti Novel contemporary mouth blown Murano glass vase in clear glass with blood red and bright red detail.
Part of the I Piccoli collection, the objects are small in size b...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
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
Crystal
Standard 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
Medium Troncosfera Vase in Red, Green, and White 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
Trittico Ovale 1977 Vase by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Unique and extraordinary, it comprises the three most outstanding works in the history and creativity of Carlo Moretti. Exclusive objects that go beyond the borders of time, classics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Atria Carlo Moretti Contemporary Mouth Blown Murano Glass Vase
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Moretti Atria contemporary mouth blown Murano glass vase in clear with light green and blue.
Part of the I Piccoli collection, the objects are small in size but give considera...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Small 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 plays with the light and changes thickness, consistency and chromatic effect.
Two-colored objects...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Ovale Carlo Moretti Mouth Blown Murano Glass Table Lamp Shade, Shade Only
Located in New York, NY
Ovale Carlo Moretti glass shade.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Chrome
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
Crystal
Standard I Cinesi Vase in Grey 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
Trittico Carlo Moretti Vase by Carlo Moretti
Located in New York, NY
Unique and extraordinary, it comprises the three most outstanding works in the history and creativity of Carlo Moretti. Exclusive objects that go beyond the borders of time, classics...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Millebolle Carlo Moretti Contemporary Murano Clear Glass Hand Etched Vase
Located in New York, NY
Oval free hand shaped vase in transparent Murano glass with detailed hand cut irregular opaque bubbles designed in 1976 by Carlo Moretti.
Carlo Mor...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass, Glass
Small 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
Large Ogiva Vase in White, Grey and Black 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 version uniting the transparency of the steel crystal with the op...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
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