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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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
Recognized Seller Listings
Set of 16 American Sterling Silver Mint Juleps
Located in New York, NY
Sixteen American sterling silver mint juleps. Each: Straight and tapering sides and molded rim. Double linear bands engraved at top and bottom. A big set for one of those parties whe...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Furniture
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pixel Pouf in Avant Après Grey Upholstery by Sergio Bicego
Located in Brooklyn, NY
From our best selling Pixel sofa stems a new element, the Pixel pouf. One single module from the geometrical sofa forms a simple and minimal seating element...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Upholstery
French Modernist Chrome Mirror
Located in Austin, TX
Mirror from France with a chrome, sleek frame adorned with brass square components. The interior rectangular mirror is original.
Category
1980s French Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Marienborg Wall Lamp
By FOS
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Made for the Danish Prime ministers representational house Marienborg.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass, Steel
Black Teeth Snacking Sweets (J.F. Willumsen)
By FOS
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Inhales, eats, breathes, blowing out in coloured clay, out- out in the house of chewed symbolic smoke.
Black teeth snacking sweets.
Willumsen ( an oven )
FOS
Chimney height is a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Furniture
Materials
Concrete, Steel
FoSantoma Table
By FOS
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Hand made coffee table by Danish artist FOS.
Please contact the gallery for more information
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Furniture
Materials
Glass, Polystyrene
Gervasoni Sweet 98 Mirror with Black Lacquered Decoration by Paola Navone
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Family of wall mirrors available in two sizes, Sweet 97/98 are characterised by rounded and irregular borders. These are mirrors with great expressive and decorative power thanks to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Mirror
Gervasoni Inout Side Table in White Ceramic and Black Stripes by Paola Navone
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Inout 44 is a coffee table-pouf made of ceramic in black, anthracite grey or white decorated with black polka dots or black stripes, it is characterised by a champagne cork shape, es...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Toothpick Mirror
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
The traditional and tapered mortice and tenon have been rebranded many times. We continue this evolution, converging to a sharp a point, becoming a piece of domestic hostile design. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Furniture
Materials
Wenge
Clessidra Hourglass in Gray and Red Glass by Venini
By Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Perfectly balanced between two different colours, the sand flows through the sleek glass chambers made using the Incalmo technique, taking on its colour and becoming a part of it. Grains of sand, impalpable and imperceptible as a whole, yet so real, like time passing. Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini sealed it in the Clessidra in 1957
Little grains of sand, impalpable and unnoticeable as a whole yet so real, like time ticking away. Clessidra – designed by Fulvio Bianconi and Paolo Venini in 1957 – evolves in 2015, taking on a more sinuous, feminine appearance. Perfectly balanced between two different colors, sand flows through sleek glass, crafted using the Incalmo technique; as it flows, it gradually colors and becomes an integral part of the glass.
Additional Information:
Material: Glass, sand
Color: Gray/red
Dimensions: Ø 15 x H 28 cm
Available in other color options: Green river /Powder pink...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Glass
Marienborg Wall Lamp B
By FOS
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Made for the Danish Primeministers representational house in 2018.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass, Steel
Mid-Century Italian Mirror
Located in Austin, TX
Mirror from Mid-Century Italy with an exterior beveled mirror frame, a middle smoked glass beveled frame, and central oval mirror. This piece is all original and perfect for a powder...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Glass, Mirror
Paolo Buffa Buffet / Sideboard in Walnut and Brass, Mario Quarti, Milan, 1940s
Located in The Hague, NL
This exceptional counter-buffet / sideboard was designed by Paolo Buffa and produced by Mario Quarti in Milan, Italy, in the 1940s.
The sideboard stands on four grooved, turned twis...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass
Murano Black and Amber Glass Table Lamps
Located in Austin, TX
These sleek and modern Murano glass table lamps have alternating solid black spheres with amber gold glass cylinders. The beautiful pair have thick round glass bases and show a very ...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Marienborg Wall Lamp A
By FOS
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Made for the Danish Primeministers representational House Marienborg.
Comes in 3 versions.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass, Steel
X-Bench
By FOS
Located in Copenhagen, DK
About the bench
Other joys and fears or x- bench which come from the crooked legs making an X.
The bench is one of the furnitures connected to the art institution from where one rest...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Furniture
Materials
Concrete
Diet wood side table
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Most wood furniture today is made from veneered chipboard, it conveys its value with its outer surface. These pieces work backwards from that layer, starting with veneer and applying...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Toothpick Chair
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
The traditional and tapered mortice and tenon have been rebranded many times. We continue this evolution, converging to a sharp a point, becoming a piece of domestic hostile design. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Furniture
Materials
Beech
Italian Designer, Floor Lamp, Brass, Fabric, Italy, 1940s
Located in High Point, NC
An adjustable brass and white fabric floor lamp designed and produced in Italy, 1940s.
Overall Dimensions (inches): 68” H x 18” W x 32” D
Stated dimensions include shade.
Bulb Speci...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass
'Untitled' Saltwork
By FOS
Located in Copenhagen, DK
In this wall piece by FOS a chemical reaction containing oxygen, water and salt is created and when the water evaporates the salt is crystallised and a landscape of salt takes shape....
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Furniture
Materials
Other
Toothpick Stool
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
The traditional and tapered mortice and tenon have been rebranded many times. We continue this evolution, converging to a sharp a point, becoming a piece of domestic hostile design. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Furniture
Materials
Wenge
Renzo Zavanella Attribution, Large Sofa, Shearling, Wood, Italy, 1940s.
Located in High Point, NC
A large shearling and stained wood sofa attributed to Renzo Zavanella, Italy, 1940s.
Seat height 18”
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Sheepskin, Wood
Toothpick Stand
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
The traditional and tapered mortice and tenon have been rebranded many times. We continue this evolution, converging to a sharp a point, becoming a piece of domestic hostile design. ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Furniture
Materials
Wenge
Diet Wood Shelf
By Soft Baroque
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Most wood furniture today is made from veneered chipboard, it conveys its value with its outer surface.
These pieces work backwards from that layer, starting with veneer and applyin...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
English Modern Sterling Silver Box with Scottish Agate Thistle
Located in New York, NY
English Modern sterling silver box, 1919. Rectangular with straight sides. Cover curved and hinged with short tab; on top inlaid agate in form of stylized thistle in rondel. Silver l...
Category
1910s British Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Agate, Sterling Silver
Large English Modern Sterling Silver Box, 1914
Located in New York, NY
George V sterling silver box. Made by Sampson Mordan in London in 1914. Rectangular with straight sides and curved corners. Cover hinged with tapering tab and gently curved top. Ceda...
Category
1910s British Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Sterling Silver
ClassiCon Bell Solid Nero Marquina Marble Side Table by Sebastian Herkner
Located in New York, NY
NEW introduced in MILAN 2023
Nero Marquina, Emperador Dark, Bianco Carrara, Grigio Nuvolato or
Green Guatemala. Green Guatemala extra charge.
The bell table by Sebastian Herkner tu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary German Modern Furniture
Materials
Marble
French Ceramic Bowl
Located in Austin, TX
Ceramic vase / bowl from France with a cream glaze exterior and gold interior. We were drawn to the unique design – scalloped opening and stylized wave cutouts.
Category
1980s French Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Modernist Brass Architectural Ceiling Flush-mounts, Italy 1980's
Located in New York, NY
Rewire required.
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass
Woven Black Ash Wood Dining Chair Molteni&C by Tobia Scarpa - made in Italy
Located in New York, NY
Miss Chair in Black Ash Wood and Leather by Afra and Tobia Scarpa.
Expert-crafted in Italy exclusively by Molteni&C.
Husband and wife powerhouse designers...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Ash
Longwy vase "Music"
Located in Bridgewater, CT
Monumental Longwy Musique Faience Vase Designed by Danillo Curetti, late 20th century Marks: FOLMOUTH'S, jm, TIRAGE NUMEROTE No 8, DECORÉ à la MAIN, (crown-coat of arms), EMAUX DE LO...
Category
Late 20th Century French Modern Furniture
Materials
Faience
Canteen Table in wood High Gloss 250x90x78h cm by Piet Hein Eek
Located in Milan, IT
Dining table made of recycled wood piles lacquered .
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Furniture
Materials
Wood
Orley Shabahang "Flutter" Abstract Persian Carpet, 5' x 7'
Located in New York, NY
Orley Shabahang's "Flutter" abstractly depicts the briefest instants as falling leaves in autumn sit transfixed in their moment of weightlessness as they waft to the ground. Deep ind...
Category
Early 2000s Persian Modern Furniture
Materials
Wool
Tora Ceramic Pendant Lamp, by Paolo Cappello
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Tora, a ceramic pendant lamp in matte pastel colors, draws its inspiration from Arab lanterns and old oil lamps. Designed to be used individually as well...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Joy Wall Lamps Small by Draga&Aurel Resin, 21st Century
Located in Como, IT
Taking cues from the 1970s and the Space Age era, these unique luminous 'capsules' draw on rich, multi-layered epoxy resin and dimmable neon lighting to ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Resin
Customizable Upholstered Wave Bench in Corduroy by Objects for Objects
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Sculptural yet comfortable, the Wave Bench by Los Angeles–based design studio Objects for Objects is a fun piece for the end of the bed, or in any ...
Category
2010s American Modern Furniture
Materials
Fabric, Wood
D'Antibes Wooden Storage Cabinet, by George Sowden for Memphis Milano Collection
Located in La Morra, Cuneo
Designed in 1981 by George Sowden, The "D'Antibes" is a piece of storage furniture with long legs. Cabinet in lacquered wood silkscreened on the two sid...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Wood
Giulio Cappellini & Antonio Facco Small Luce Glass Service Table for Cappellini
Located in New York, NY
The Luce table by Giulio Cappellini & Antonio Facco represents the fruition of expertise, creativity and the sensibility to experiment with new uses for ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Glass
Vistosi Tread LT Table Lamp Murano Blown Glass with Gold Base
Located in Mogliano Veneto, Treviso
The “technicity” of the metal element combined with the blown glass diffuser gives tread an “industrial” style. An object reminiscent of vintage electrical equipment for its particul...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Wood
Vistosi Novecento SP G Suspension Light by Romani Saccani Architetti Associati
Located in Mogliano Veneto, Treviso
The idea behind the collection Novecento is to reduce the traditional Murano chandelier to its most recognizable element, its profile. This shape is then reconstructed in a 360º glas...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Vistosi LED Riflesso LT 3 Table Lamp with Copper Base by Chiaramonte
Located in Mogliano Veneto, Treviso
The LED light passes through a glass bubble to refract on a mirror in a game of continuous rebounds. Glass is not only a diffuser, but also an almost invisible intermediary between t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Glass
Opinion Ciatti Ombres de Chats #2 Bookend
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ombres de Chats by Angelo Barcella are poetic objects, delicate table sculptures. Shadows of curious, busy, sore, angry or bored cats, instants which are made eternal when transforme...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Steel
Opinion Ciatti Tab.ulino Small Table with Mirror Top
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Take a wooden frame, cover it in aluminium and then work its surface, ”scrunch” it by hand to achieve a crimpled profile. This is the process at the core of Tab.ulino and Tab.ulone, ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Opinion Ciatti Henry II Triangular Corner Wall Shelf
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Well defined with contemporary lines, a geometric design and unusual shapes in order to surprise and astonish. Henri is the collection of shelves designed by Bruno Rainaldi, characte...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Stainless Steel
Opinion Ciatti XXX Small Round Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
What is immediately clear when we look at the XXX coffee table range designed by Lapo Ciatti is the contrast between the fine finishes and the shapes that are purposely irregular and...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Wrought Iron
Opinion Ciatti Ptolomeo Wall Small Bookcase
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ptolomeo Wall is the wall version of the Original Ptolomeo and could be defined as the "column of knowledge”. A stack of levitating books or a ground-air column (floor-ceiling) for e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Steel
Opinion Ciatti Original Ptolomeo Medium Bookcase
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Original Ptolomeo is the free-standing bookcase that doesn’t require any further presentation: it is simple, revolutionary, innovative, as sudden as ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Steel
Opinion Ciatti Original Ptolomeo Small Bookcase
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Original Ptolomeo is the freestanding bookcase that doesn’t require any further presentation: it is simple, revolutionary, innovative, as sudden as a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Steel
Italian Designer, Floor Lamp, Brass, Walnut, Fabric, Italy, 1940s
Located in High Point, NC
A walnut, brass and beige fabric floor lamp designed and produced in Italy,c. 1940s.
Overall Dimensions (inches): 69.5” H x 20.25” W x 15” D
Stated dimensions include shade.
Bulb S...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass
Tournus Cast Aluminum, Brass & Cashmere Stools, France 1950's
Located in New York, NY
Enameled cast Aluminum and Brass stools with teal wool upholstery.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Modern Furniture
Materials
Aluminum, Brass
Pair of Textured Murano Glass Wall Sconces
Located in Austin, TX
Murano glass sconces with a smoke color to the textured glass and black glass sphere finials. The “stampato” glass is textured with ridges and is curved in design, making a superb de...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Murano Glass
Tiffany American Modern Sterling Silver 11-Inch Round Tray
Located in New York, NY
Modern sterling silver tray. Made by Tiffany & Co. in New York, ca 1915. Round with tapering shoulder and reeded rim. Fully marked including maker’s stamp, pattern no. 18975 (first p...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Furniture
Materials
Sterling Silver
LED Wall/Ceiling Flush Mount in Crystal-White Glass 1300lm, Aurora by Vistosi
By Vistosi
Located in Mogliano Veneto, Treviso
A fixture that can be used as ceiling wall. Available in three sizes, with a close lenticular shape made of matte white glass with a crystal or topaz 'morrisa' rim.
Light source:...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Glass
Vistosi Futura PLG Flush Light in Amber by Hangar Design Group
Located in Mogliano Veneto, Treviso
Collection of lamps in blown glass available in transparent and three exclusive colors combined with different finishes of the metal ring. The glass is blown in one piece but the par...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Blown Glass
Vistosi Neochic Large Ceiling Lamp in White by Chiaramonte and Marin
By Vistosi
Located in Mogliano Veneto, Treviso
The design of this collection is inspired by the effect that water and wind make on a stone. The versatility of this lamp, ideal for any kind of decoration, comes from a recognizable...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Glass
Hand Glazed Earthenware Spherical Vase with Unique Contemporary Design
Located in London, GB
Slick Additions, 1882 Ltd. Slick and Sleet by 1882 Ltd. with an extended vase collection by Queensberry Hunt is a collection of uniquely hand glazed items, a true testament to the sk...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Contemporary Earthenware Tankard with Classic Tones of English Delftware
By Faye Toogood
Located in London, GB
Indigo Rain, 1882 Ltd. with Faye Toogood. Designer Faye Toogood’s addition to her range of ceramic designs for 1882 Ltd. puts a fresh spin on the forms and traditions of English creamware. Indigo Rain adds a touch of contemporary flair to the homely familiarity of blue-and-white striped crockery. The fine earthenware showcases the Classic tones of English Delftware...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary British Modern Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Modern furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Modern furniture for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage furniture created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include seating, lighting, tables and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, fabric and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Modern furniture made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and North America pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Rug & Kilim, Schumacher, Vistosi, and Kartell. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee.
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