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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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
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Jacob Kassay Set of 18 Lithographs, 2014
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jacob Kassay artwork made in 2021.
Set of 18 Lithographies.
Title, L'Eco di Bergamo
Edition of 2.
Numbered and hand signed in pencil.
Number of e...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Furniture
Materials
Paper
Side or End Table Abstract Sculpture Cube Mirror Steel Collectible Design Italy
Located in Ancona, Marche
The 'Get Lost' side table is made of mirror polished stainless steel. The side table have a monolithic shape but is hollow inside, the structure is manually welded and mirror polishe...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Stainless Steel
20th Century Black Edition Sculptural table lamp model Cajones by Salvador Dalí
Located in Barcelona, ES
In 2009 we commemorated the 20th Anniversary of the death of Salvador Dalí and BD wished to add its special homage by producing a special limited edition of his fantastic furniture c...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Furniture
Materials
Wood
Charger Plate Platters Serveware Green Onyx Marble Handmade Collectible Design
Located in Ancona, Marche
Hand carved charger plate in green onyx. Multiple use as charger plates, plates, platters and placers. The polished finishing underlines the transparency of the onyx making this a ve...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Onyx
Scuptural cabinet "CRISTALLO" by Alessandro Medini MDF lacquered red blue green
Located in Barcelona, ES
This is a sculpture, cabinet and beautiful design from the great Alessandro Medini.
Mendini was a radical designer who influenced architecture and design in Italy and on a global scale, bringing colour and exciting forms into buildings such as the Groninger Museum in The Netherlands and the iconic Proust armchair, which blended a baroque form with multicoloured hand-painted pointillist dots. BD was inspired by his concept of the “neoartesanado postindustrial” (new post...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Furniture
Materials
Sycamore
Sunlounger by Salvador Dali model "Portlligat" surrealist design iroko wood
Located in Barcelona, ES
Dalí’s creativity and fascination with the human body takes the form of a sunbed, intimately created and exquisitely designed.
Dalí’s original Portlligat was made in 1962 from olive...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Furniture
Materials
Wood
Pianist Coffee Table, Nero Marquina Brass, InsidherLand by Joana Santos Barbosa
Located in Maia, Porto
Best Table Design at the International Design & Architecture Awards 2022
The Pianist coffee table doesn’t represent the piano but the hands of the artist, vehicle of technique and emotion.
The brass blades design the shape of the four longest fingers that, on a white marble keyboard, release a melody hidden within the musical notes. The minimal approach creates contrast between the architectural lines and the exquisite noble materials.
The marble coffee table with brass blades was inspired by a drawing of Paul Klee, in which the Swiss painter portrays the soul of a musician and presents only the piano’s black keys, leaving the white keys on invisibility. Acclaimed by the international press, this contemporary table represents the best of Portuguese design...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Furniture
Materials
Marble, Brass
Looshaus Table Lamp, Carrara and Brass, InsidherLand by Joana Santos Barbosa
Located in Maia, Porto
The Looshaus table lamp is a contemporary design that interprets the modernist austerity of the Looshaus building by architect Adolf Loos.
The Loo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Furniture
Materials
Carrara Marble, Brass
Dining Table Solid Wood Base Crystal Glass Top, Rings Structure Made in Italy
Located in Ancona, Marche
The 'Chained Up Reloaded' dining table is an important dining table with structure in rare one-piece slab Iroko (origin: Africa) and table top in crystal glass.
Dining table dimens...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Coffee Cocktail Center Table White Marble Glass Crystal Top Collectible Design
Located in Ancona, Marche
The coffee table 'Vertigo' is inspired by the marble quarries in Tuscany, it is made of Carrara marble with a crystal glass top. The table is made up of 11 white carrara marble rings...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Marble
Apocalypse, Abstract Sculpture, Brightly Colored Geometric Intertwined Form
By Robert Segal
Located in Chicago, IL
Robert Segal’s abstract sculpture offers a particularly fertile ground for experiments in shape, color, proportion, and technique. He steps away from non-traditional sculpting method...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Furniture
Materials
Acrylic, Fiberglass
Vase Vessel Decorative Sculpture Abstract White Statuary Marble Hand-carved
Located in Ancona, Marche
Important sculptural vase carved by hand from a solid block of Statuary marble.The precious white Statuary marble has always been the one preferred by sculptors and artists for their...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Marble
Set/2 Lions, Calacatta Bianco Marble, Handmade by Lusitanus Home
Located in Lisboa, PT
Set/2 Lions Guardian, Calacatta Bianco Marble, Lusitanus Home Collection by Lusitanus Home.
Handcrafted Guardian Lion sculptures in Calacatt...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Furniture
Materials
Marble
New modern Lamp in Green Guatemala Marble, creator Niko Koronis Stock
By Niko Koronis
Located in Milan, IT
Normally, we think of marble as a metamorphic rock that embodies the platonic idea of sculpture; the beginning and the end. But what if one tried to investigate its limitations and m...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Marble
Vintage Monumental Steel Marble Block Black Square Coffee Table, France, 1980's
Located in New York, NY
Vintage monumental steel marble black square coffee table, France.
Chic black marble/granite and steel glass coffee table, chic in any mod...
Category
Late 20th Century French Modern Furniture
Materials
Marble, Steel
Pair of Black Lacquered Harlow Throne Chairs by Blackman Cruz
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Glamorous pair of black lacquered ‘Harlow Throne’ chairs design in 2000 by Blackman Cruz. The chair was name after actress Jean Harlow. Both chairs have ...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Furniture
Materials
Wood, Lacquer
Yaacov Agam Art
By Yaacov Agam
Located in Weesp, NL
Art Yaacov Agam
Signed and numbered 25/27 from the Meissner Galerie in Hamburg
Measurements: H 33 x W 23 x D 4 cm.
Agam's first solo exhibition was at the ...
Category
1980s French Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Acrylic, Wood
Karl Springer Snake-Textured Leather and Bronze Regency Modern Cocktail Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Karl Springer Snake-textured leather (or leatherette) and bronze Regency modern cocktail table. This is an original Karl Springer piece and retains...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Furniture
Materials
Leather, Glass
Italian Murano Glass Gold Leaves Modern Flush Mount or Ceiling Light
Located in Rome, IT
Exclusive production with precious Murano glass leaves with gold intrusion, creating a fabulous light effect.
Available also with ice color glasses.
Frame; gold-plated or nickel.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Art Glass
Lino Sabattini Italy Vase "Persepoli" Limited Edition 8/237
Located in Toledo, OH
Lio Sabattini "Persepoli" limited edition vase 8/237 Italy.
Category
20th Century European Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
Plisse Basin Made of Marble
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
The Plisse basin is made of carved White Carrara Marble. It can come in different dimensions and stone.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Marble
A pair of "Spirit" Sofas by John Hutton
By John Hutton
Located in San Francisco, CA
A pair “spirit” sofas by John Hutton for Dohghia. Covered in a deep rust colored velvet with decorative velvet rosettes across the back. Retains Donghia label.
Condition: Very goo...
Category
1980s American Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Upholstery, Wood
New Modern Small Pot in Black Marquinia Marble, creator Ivan Colominas
Located in Milan, IT
Pyxis pot, jar or container for multiple uses.
Size: 12.6 x 11 cm, smooth finishing. Commercial name: Pyxis S, Pyxis collection by the Spanish designer Ivan Colominas. Available also...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Marble
Set 4 Green Olive Linen Lampshades
Located in Brescia, IT
Set four linen lampshades in green olive color.
Suitable for Baccarat wall light model Torch.
Free shipping in EU and the rest of the world.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Modern Furniture
Materials
Linen
MARBLE SAMPLES pack of 6 samples to choose from different marble and finishings
By Meddel
Located in VALVERDE DEL MAJANO, CL
MARBLE SAMPLES pack of 6 samples to choose from different marble and finishings.
Pack of 6 samples to be agreed with the customer. Options to choose 6 different marbles from the marbles of the material samples. Marbles and finishes may vary.
Marble samples measuring 10 x 10 x 2 centimeters, to be chosen from the marbles of the material samples in the image: Triana yellow marble, wood limestone, Bateig sandstone, Blanco Italia (Carrara) marble, emperor brown marble, Alicante red marble, cherry grey...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Furniture
Materials
Travertine, Marble, Carrara Marble, Slate
Elise 60 Floor Lamp in Black Marble by Pablo Designs
Located in San Francisco, CA
The timeless Elise lamp pays tribute to the advent of the machine age. Its refined machined marble base, combined with its towering frosted acrylic diffuser...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary North American Modern Furniture
Materials
Marble
Set of 5 Decorative Pillows Red Green Velvet Faux Fur by Lusitanus
Located in Lisboa, PT
Set/5 Decorative Pillows, Lusitanus Home Collection by Greenapple.
Handmade decorative pillow set with exquisite details.
2x 910144 Square cushion in dark red velvet with green vel...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Atlas Side Table in Orobico Marble by Adolfo Abejon for Formar
Located in 中西區, HK
This futuristic sculptural work takes its name
after the young titan of the Greek mythology
Fated to sustain the pillars that separated the Earth
from Heaven.
Design: Adolfo Abejon
...
Category
2010s Chinese Modern Furniture
Materials
Marble
Early Edward Wormley for Dunbar Chest of Drawers
Located in St. Louis, MO
Mahogany chest of drawers with brass octagonal ring pulls, designed by Edward Wormley in late 1930s.
Category
1930s American Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass
Footstool Silver Steel and Black Saddle Leather, Modern Style, Hug Collection
Located in Alcoy, Alicante
The Hug contemporary footstool and ottoman is designed and conceived with a light aesthetic, the slight oscillation of the steel rod of 12 mm i...
Category
2010s Spanish Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass, Steel
Italian Photo Frame Handmade Wood, Double Heart
Located in Sarezzo, IT
Double Heart is a unique arge Italian hand crafted wood double photo frame by sculptor Massimo Pasini.
Wood is a very warm material and it is very m...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Wood
Surrealist standing lamp by Salvador Dalí model "Muletas" white linen shade
Located in Barcelona, ES
A standing lamp taken from Dalí’s designs for Jean Michel Frank. The ‘Muletas’ had its beginnings at the surreal stage and is an obsession which persists in Dalí’s works as can be se...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Furniture
Materials
Wood
Black Coffee Table by Willy Rizzo for Sabot, 1972
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Berlin, Berlin
Coffee table, designed by Willy Rizzo. Italy, Mario Sabot, Manzano (Udine) 1974.
Model: Alveo, black Formica covered wooden table construction with inserted stainless steel tray/ ...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Stainless Steel
Rug & Kilim's Distressed Style Modern Rug in Red & Gold Abstract Pattern
By Rug & Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
From Rug & Kilim’s Homage collection, an 8x10 distressed style abstract rug reflecting on rippling curvatures with delicious red-brown & lush orange-gold tones. The drawing expresses...
Category
2010s Indian Modern Furniture
Materials
Wool
Small Steel Chiminea Fire Pit Outdoor Fireplace
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
Not your normal chiminea or fireplace. This high design, raw steel sculptural piece will make a statement in any outdoor space. Functionally, it is perfect on that cold evening, but ...
Category
2010s American Modern Furniture
Materials
Steel
Handblown Glass Sunrise Sunset Cup 4
By Fort Makers
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Surrealist-inspired sunrise sunset cups are hand blown in a kaleidoscope of ombre colors and adorned with contrasting orb handles to evoke a looking glass, a glimpse into a miniature...
Category
2010s American Modern Furniture
Materials
Blown Glass
Plates Platters Serveware Set of 3 White Statuary Marble Collectible Design
Located in Ancona, Marche
Hand carved presentation plates in Statuary marble. Multiple use as plates, platters and placers.
The precious white Statuary marble has always been the one preferred by sculptors a...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Marble
Custom White Biomorphic White Canvas Duck Upholstered Bench and or Settee
Located in North Miami, FL
This wonderful custom backless channeled floating organic kidney shaped bench and or settee is re-upholstered with white duck canvas. There are 7 t...
Category
1980s American Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Contemporary Tentacle Hand Blown Glass Vase
Located in Camisano Vicentino, IT
"Contemporary Tentacle Hand Blown Glass Vase" by Simone Crestani
Introducing the Tentacle Vase, a captivating work of art meticulously crafted by the v...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Glass
Outdoor & Indoor Glide White Concrete Monkey Side Table by Jaime Hayon
By Jaime Hayon
Located in Barcelona, ES
Side table made of solid architectural concrete in white. Apt for indoor and outdoor use. Regulatory glides included.
Few pieces have achieved bestseller success and simultaneous pu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Furniture
Materials
Concrete
Set of 2 Beige Sahco Zero the Tired Man Lounge Chairs by Lassen
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Set of 2 beige Sahco Zero The Tired Man lounge chairs by Lassen. Flemming Lassen designed the upholstered armchair The Stanco in 1935 for the Copenhagen cabinetmakers' guild competit...
Category
2010s Danish Modern Furniture
Materials
Bouclé, Beech
Contemporary V Lamp Hardwood, Solid Glass and Brass
By Louis Jobst
Located in London, GB
Louis Jobst' V lamp is composed from, a cone, a sphere and a triangle. Their proportions are carefully judged to create a harmonious formation, with each shape ...
Category
2010s British Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass
Rug & Kilim’s Scandinavian Style Custom Rug in Beige-Brown, with Stripes
By Rug & Kilim
Located in Long Island City, NY
From an exciting new collection of gift-size pieces, this 3x5 Swedish-style accent rug is a bold new addition to the Scandinavian Collection by Rug & Kilim. Handwoven in a wool flatw...
Category
2010s Indian Modern Furniture
Materials
Wool
Murano Glass Modernist Lamps
Located in Austin, TX
Pair of petite Murano glass lamps made of all hand-blown glass elements from the island of Murano outside Venice, Italy. This pair features glass made with several different techniqu...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass
Sterling Silver Set of 6 Modern Pattern Spoons +Tongs Hallmarked:-Sheffield 1934
By Emile Viner
Located in York, GB
Sterling silver box of 6 Modern teaspoons + tongs
Made in England and with the maker`s mark - EV, for Emile Viner, for
Viners Ltd., bath street, Sheffield.
A full set of English h...
Category
1930s English Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Silver
"Bruna" Minimalist Armchair in Painted Steel and Velvet Handwoven
Located in Sao Paulo, Sao Paulo
Alessandra Delgado was once thinking about wire. What would emerge if one started to fold lengths of wire randomly? Bruna armchair is the materialization of these thoughts. The armch...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Brazilian Modern Furniture
Materials
Steel
Bonnie Contemporary LED Medium Pendant, Solid Brass or Chromed
Located in Torslanda, SE
The Bonnie range is designed around the stylized form of a Saffron flower, known around the world for its valuable beauty, fragrance and essence.
Each organic flower-like form is st...
Category
2010s Scandinavian Modern Furniture
Materials
Brass
Vallauris 1951 Exposition, 1951
Located in Holmfirth, GB
Artist: Pablo Picasso
Title: Vallauris 1951 Exposition, 1951
Date: 1951
Medium: Linocut
Printer: Hidalgo Arnera
Size: 65 x 50 cm
Signed: In plate.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Modern Furniture
Materials
Paper
Traditional Religious Plaster Figure: Virgin of Timeless Elegance
Located in Barcelona, ES
Behold the grace and elegance of this traditional religious plaster figure, depicting the Virgin with timeless beauty. Crafted in a traditional Catalan atelier in Olot, Spain, circa ...
Category
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Plaster
Indoor Glide Black Concrete Monkey Side Table by Jaime Hyon
By Jaime Hayon
Located in Barcelona, ES
Few pieces have achieved bestseller success and simultaneous publishing as this singular side table by Jaime Hayon. It is functional, has quality and a touch of humour, which is alwa...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Spanish Modern Furniture
Materials
Concrete
Fur Cushion with Cotton / Down Feather Insert, Opossum
Located in Alcoy, Alicante
Exclusive home accessory, custom made by order. There is not a piece same to another. The product you will receive may have differences with the product pictured as it is a natural m...
Category
2010s European Modern Furniture
Materials
Fur
Set of Six Baccarat Crystal 'Neptune' 9.25" Goblets, Possibly Custom Order
By Baccarat
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Set of Six Baccarat Crystal 'Neptune' 9.25" Goblets Possibly Custom Order*
9-inch goblets are readily available, these examples are 9.25-inches high
Status: Discontinued. Produce...
Category
Late 20th Century French Modern Furniture
Materials
Crystal
Plaster Religious Baby Jesus Traditional Figure, circa 1950
Located in Barcelona, ES
Traditional religious plaster figure of a baby Jesus.
Embodied within this exquisite plaster figure, portraying the beloved infant Jesus, is a sacred aura of tradition.
Crafted in ...
Category
1950s Spanish Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Plaster
Set of 3 Fur Cushion with Cotton / Down Feather Insert, Opossum
Located in Alcoy, Alicante
Exclusive home accessory, custom made by order. There is not a piece same to another. The product you will receive may have differences with the product pictured as it is a natural m...
Category
2010s European Modern Furniture
Materials
Fur
Modern LC3 Black leather chrome frame lounge chair by Le Corbusier
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
A Single pre owned modern lounge or club chair by Le Corbusier. Wide Model LC3 in soft black Leather. Triple chrome plated steel frames. Show little to no signs of use. Made in italy...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Chrome
Schumacher Pyne Hollyhock Floral Chintz Indigo Two-Sided Cotton Pillow
By Schumacher
Located in New York, NY
This 18" x 18" pillow features our Pyne Hollyhock print, one of Schumacher's most iconic and sought-after designs. Shown here in Indigo and finished with self welt edges, this chintz...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Thai Modern Furniture
Materials
Cotton
Italian white night stand Componibili Anna Castelli Ferrieri for Kartell, 1970s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian white night stand Componibili Anna Castelli Ferrieri for Kartell, 1970s
Bedside table mod. Componibili with a round base. The structure is cylindrical, has three drawers with...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Furniture
Materials
Plastic
1980s Modernist Polychrome Murano Glass Cascade Chandelier by Mazzega
By Mazzega
Located in Aci Castello, IT
An amazing polychrome cascade murano glass chandelier designed and manufactured in the Eighties in Venice by Mazzega. The polychrome murano glass resemble stalactites in their shape, they are in very good condition as the chromed metal structure because the chandelier came from an important lighting shop in...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Furniture
Materials
Metal
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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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