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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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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 chaircrafted 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: Slamp
SLAMP Veli Medium Flush Light in Celeste by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Inspired by the high fashion world, where folds, pleats and soft structural shapes reign, Veli is a sophisticated, glamorous collection featuring a series of handcrafted elements car...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Veli Medium Flush Light in Opal by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Inspired by the high fashion world, where folds, pleats and soft structural shapes reign, Veli is a sophisticated, glamorous collection featuring a series of handcrafted elements car...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Clizia Large Pendant Light in Orange by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Clizia is a series of shapes fit together to create a perfect balance of reflections and transparencies. The lamp has taken note of natural forms, resembling a cloud that captures th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Aria Medium Pendant Light in Transparent by Zaha Hadid
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Zaha Hadid’s luminous architecture is visionary, fluid and dynamic, infusing the revolutionary and iconic semantics of the celebrated architect into domestic and public interiors; th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Other

SLAMP Clizia Battery Powered Table Light in Fumé by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
The botanical cordless table lamp, complete with rechargeable batteries, can be easily moved from place to place, bringing soft illumination to a dinner en plein air, an early bedsid...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Aria Extra Large Pendant Light in Black Shade by Zaha Hadid
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Zaha Hadid’s luminous architecture is visionary, fluid and dynamic, infusing the revolutionary and iconic semantics of the celebrated architect into domestic and public interiors; th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Other

SLAMP Gemmy Pendant Light in Orange by Spalletta, Croce, Ragnisco & Wijffels
Located in Pomezia, Rome
This versatile and dynamic collection was inspired by the polyhedric facets of desert gems. The lamp’s geometries create an intriguing contemporary and refined kaleidoscope effect th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Glass

SLAMP Clizia Medium Flush Light in Fumé by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Zaha Hadid’s visionary, fluid, and dynamic luminous architectural objects bring the designer’s revolutionary and iconic semantics to any domestic or public space, inspiring harmony between beings and atmospheres. Avia brings the grandeur of large-scale buildings...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Veli Large Suspension Light in Opal by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Inspired by the high fashion world, where folds, pleats and soft structural shapes reign, Veli is a sophisticated, glamorous collection featuring a series of handcrafted elements car...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Fiorellina Table Light in Fumé by Nigel Coates
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Suggestive, realistic and welcoming; Fiorella’s natural details conjure up a world covered in flora. SLAMP’s expressive powers and fresh figurativeness meet in a flurry of reflective...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Crystal, Metal

SLAMP Clizia Medium Flush Light in Orange by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Clizia is a series of shapes fit together to create a perfect balance of reflections and transparencies. The lamp has taken note of natural forms, resembling a cloud that captures th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP La Lollo Large Pendant Light in Gold & Fumé by Lorenza Bozzoli
Located in Pomezia, Rome
La Lollo is a tribute to the roaring 50’s, a series of graceful suspensions that reawaken images of divas in the spotlight. The patented techno-polymer cylinders, in varying shades o...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Gold

SLAMP Gemmy Pendant Light in Arlecchino by Spalletta, Croce, Ragnisco & Wijffels
Located in Pomezia, Rome
This versatile and dynamic collection was inspired by the polyhedric facets of desert gems. The lamp’s geometries create an intriguing contemporary and refined kaleidoscope effect th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Avia Medium Pendant Light in White by Zaha Hadid
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Zaha Hadid’s visionary, fluid, and dynamic luminous architectural objects bring the designer’s revolutionary and iconic semantics to any domestic or public space, inspiring harmony b...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic, Acrylic

SLAMP Veli Large Suspension Light in Gold by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Inspired by the high fashion world, where folds, pleats and soft structural shapes reign, Veli is a sophisticated, glamorous collection featuring a series of handcrafted elements car...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Gold

SLAMP Las Palmas Large Floor Light in White by Jnoas Clementoni
Located in Pomezia, Rome
A few kilometers from the Moroccan coast in the Atlantic Ocean, sunlight bathes the palm fronds covering the island of Las Palmas. This suggestive landscape brought life to the epony...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Clizia Large Pendant Light in White by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Clizia is a series of shapes fit together to create a perfect balance of reflections and transparencies. The lamp has taken note of natural forms, resembling a cloud that captures th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Bach Extra Large Floor Light in Gold by Francesco Paretti
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Slim and refined, Bach is statuary, with elegant yet rigorous curves, bringing fluid, linear movement and illumination to any interior. Bach is available in various heights and sizes...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Ceremony Large Pendant Light in Fumé by Bruno Rainaldi
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Ceremony is an opulent lamp, an ode to femininity that conjures up the image of the brush of a skirt, a pearl choker, drapery on decoltè. The five light sources are spread over techn...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Resin

SLAMP La Lollo Large Pendant Light in Pewter & White by Lorenza Bozzoli
Located in Pomezia, Rome
La Lollo is a tribute to the roaring 50’s, a series of graceful suspensions that reawaken images of divas in the spotlight. The patented techno-polymer cylinders, in varying shades o...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Pewter

SLAMP Ceremony Large Pendant Light in White by Bruno Rainaldi
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Ceremony is an opulent lamp, an ode to femininity that conjures up the image of the brush of a skirt, a pearl choker, drapery on decoltè. The five light sources are spread over techn...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Resin

SLAMP Drusa Pendant Light in Velvet by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Drusa draws inspiration from crystals poking out from crevices in the rocks; they exhibit an ever-changing, poetic and multiform kaleidoscope when hit by the light. The contemporary,...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Slamp Avia Large Pendant Light in White Fade by Zaha Hadid
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Zaha Hadid’s visionary, fluid, and dynamic luminous architectural objects bring the designer’s revolutionary and iconic semantics to any domestic or public space, inspiring harmony b...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Acrylic

SLAMP Clizia Table Light in Fumé by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Clizia is a series of shapes fit together to create a perfect balance of reflections and transparencies. The lamp has taken note of natural forms, resembling a cloud that captures th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Drusa Wall Sconce in Velvet by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Drusa draws inspiration from crystals poking out from crevices in the rocks; they exhibit an ever-changing, poetic and multiform kaleidoscope when hit by the light. The contemporary,...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Veli 7 Pendant Light in Couture w/ Red Wire by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Inspired by the high fashion world, where folds, pleats and soft structural shapes reign, Veli is a sophisticated, glamorous collection featuring a series of handcrafted elements car...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Clizia Large Flush Light in White by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Clizia is a series of shapes fit together to create a perfect balance of reflections and transparencies. The lamp has taken note of natural forms, resembling a cloud that captures th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Liza Table Light in Pewter by Elisa Giovannoni
Located in Pomezia, Rome
The masterpiece of the Liza collection is the iconic, baroque-inspired table lamp, available in the classic Prisma version, as well as a new Pewter version, both using SLAMP’s patent...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Pewter

SLAMP Clizia Large Flush Light in Orange by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Clizia is a series of shapes fit together to create a perfect balance of reflections and transparencies. The lamp has taken note of natural forms, resembling a cloud that captures th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Veli Mini Quartet Pendant Light in Couture w/ Red Wire by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
The Veli Mini Quartet Couture is a dramatic suspension lamp with a single, 32 cm canopy and four cascading spheres. Each luminous diffusor, using volant of unbreakable and patented t...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Clizia Large Pendant Light in Fumé by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Clizia is a series of shapes fit together to create a perfect balance of reflections and transparencies. The lamp has taken note of natural forms, resembling a cloud that captures th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Lillibet Small Pendant Light in Black by Nigel Coates
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Lillibet is a dramatic collection that marked SLAMP’s evolution of stylistic production just after the turn of the century. The radial structure easily connects to the central Crista...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Bach Extra Large Floor Light in White by Francesco Paretti
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Slim and refined, Bach is statuary, with elegant yet rigorous curves, bringing fluid, linear movement and illumination to any interior. Bach is available in various heights and sizes...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Bach Extra Extra Large Floor Light in Gold by Francesco Paretti
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Slim and refined, Bach is statuary, with elegant yet rigorous curves, bringing fluid, linear movement and illumination to any interior. Bach is available in various heights and sizes...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Lightning Archives Extra Large Tube Light in Feena Art by Studio Job
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Iconic semantics meet Dadaist derivations in Studio Job’s ode to the Tube, bringing a daring poetic aura to the historic SLAMP masterpiece, first produced in the early nineties. Illu...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Flora Floor Light in Gold by Zanini De Zanine
Located in Pomezia, Rome
In a land kissed by the sun, nature, colors and artisan expertise bring life to highly expressive pieces dense with archetypes, including Flora, the collection inspired by the Monste...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

SLAMP Ceremony Small Pendant Light in Fumé by Bruno Rainaldi
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Ceremony is an opulent lamp, an ode to femininity that conjures up the image of the brush of a skirt, a pearl choker, drapery on decoltè. The five light sources are spread over techn...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

SLAMP La Lollo Medium Pendant Light in Gold & Fumé by Lorenza Bozzoli
Located in Pomezia, Rome
La Lollo is a tribute to the roaring 50’s, a series of graceful suspensions that reawaken images of divas in the spotlight. The patented techno-polymer cylinders, in varying shades o...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Liza Gray Table Lamp Slamp production
Located in Torino, Piemonte
Table lamp model Liza Slamp production. Liza model lamp in gray color. Baroque-inspired plastic table lamp that combines a design with a traditional flavor with the use of contempora...
Category

2010s Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

Liza table lamp Slamp production
Located in Torino, Piemonte
Table lamp model Liza Slamp production. Baroque-inspired plastic table lamp that combines a design with a traditional flavor with the use of contemporary materials, technopolymers. D...
Category

2010s Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Veli Mini Flush Light in Charcoal by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Inspired by the high fashion world, where folds, pleats and soft structural shapes reign, Veli is a sophisticated, glamorous collection featuring a series of handcrafted elements car...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Veli Table Light in Couture by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
A soft finish that was inspired by modern fabric textures. Veli Couture fills and envelops any space, setting it apart with its aesthetics and lush decorative characteristics. The su...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Veli Mini Flush Light in Copper by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Inspired by the high fashion world, where folds, pleats and soft structural shapes reign, Veli is a sophisticated, glamorous collection featuring a series of handcrafted elements car...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Metal, Copper

SLAMP La Lollo Extra Large Pendant Light in Gold & Fumé by Lorenza Bozzoli
Located in Pomezia, Rome
La Lollo is a tribute to the roaring 50’s, a series of graceful suspensions that reawaken images of divas in the spotlight. The patented techno-polymer cylinders, in varying shades o...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Gold

Pair of WB-Small Lamps Design by Giulio Di Mauro for Slamp, 1980's
Located in FERROL, ES
Pair of WB-Small lamps design by Giulio Di Mauro for Slamp, 1980's. Opalflex body and side in leather joined by polished aluminum screws. One of ...
Category

1980s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture

Materials

Leather, Plastic

Slamp La Lollo Medium Pendant Light in Gradient by Lorenza Bozzoli
Located in Pomezia, Rome
La Lollo is a tribute to the roaring 50’s, a series of graceful suspensions that reawaken images of divas in the spotlight. The patented techno-polymer cylinders, in varying shades o...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Other

SLAMP Dafne Table Light in White by Nigel Coates
Located in Pomezia, Rome
From a nymph to a woman tuned into a tree; the myth and images that inspired the name. The metamorphic light instills a balanced, peaceful feeling that owes its mystique to a laurel-...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Diamond Floor Light in White by Paolucci & Statera
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Sculptural, dynamic, and modern, inspired by the iconic works of Brancusi. Diamond’s geometric design allows the light to accentuate its various facets and angles. The luminous sculp...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Gemmy Pendant Light in Prisma by Spalletta, Croce, Ragnisco & Wijffels
Located in Pomezia, Rome
This versatile and dynamic collection was inspired by the polyhedric facets of desert gems. The lamp’s geometries create an intriguing contemporary and refined kaleidoscope effect that enriches any interior. The Gemmy Prisma collection...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Slamuel Parkr by Table Lamp by Massimiliano Datti for Slamp
Located in Roma, IT
Lampada creata negli anni '90 da Massimiliano Datti per Slamp chiamata Mimì Materiale plastico Lampadina fornita nella vendita Spina e presa europee originali
Category

1990s Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

Slamp Avia Large Pendant Light in Black Fade by Zaha Hadid
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Zaha Hadid’s visionary, fluid, and dynamic luminous architectural objects bring the designer’s revolutionary and iconic semantics to any domestic or public space, inspiring harmony between beings and atmospheres. Avia brings the grandeur of large-scale buildings...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Acrylic

Slamp La Lollona 5-Tier Cascade Chandelier in Pewter & White by Lorenza Bozzoli
Located in Pomezia, Rome
La Lollo and La Lollona are a tribute to the roaring 1950s, evoking images of divas and flashbulbs. Sophisticated gradient chromatics, metallization, lace p...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Other

SLAMP Bach Extra Extra Large Floor Light in White by Francesco Paretti
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Slim and refined, Bach is statuary, with elegant yet rigorous curves, bringing fluid, linear movement and illumination to any interior. Bach is available in various heights and sizes...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Aria Medium Pendant Light in Gold by Zaha Hadid
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Zaha Hadid’s luminous architecture is visionary, fluid and dynamic, infusing the revolutionary and iconic semantics of the celebrated architect into domestic and public interiors; th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Other

SLAMP Gemmy Pendant Light in Amethyst by Spalletta, Croce, Ragnisco & Wijffels
Located in Pomezia, Rome
This versatile and dynamic collection was inspired by the polyhedric facets of desert gems. The lamp’s geometries create an intriguing contemporary and refined kaleidoscope effect that enriches any interior. The Gemmy Prisma collection...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

SLAMP Avia Medium Pendant Light in Black by Zaha Hadid
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Zaha Hadid’s visionary, fluid, and dynamic luminous architectural objects bring the designer’s revolutionary and iconic semantics to any domestic or public space, inspiring harmony between beings and atmospheres. Avia brings the grandeur of large-scale buildings...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Las Palmas Extra Large Floor Light in White by Jonas Clementoni
Located in Pomezia, Rome
A few kilometers from the Moroccan coast in the Atlantic Ocean, sunlight bathes the palm fronds covering the island of Las Palmas. This suggestive landscape brought life to the epony...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

SLAMP Clizia Small Pendant Light in Fumé by Adriano Rachele
Located in Pomezia, Rome
Clizia is a series of shapes fit together to create a perfect balance of reflections and transparencies. The lamp has taken note of natural forms, resembling a cloud that captures th...
Category

21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture

Materials

Plastic

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