Modern Tapestries
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
Style: Modern
Color: Brown
Nanimarquina Wellbeing Tapestry by Ilse Crawford
Located in New York, NY
Wellbeing is an organism of comforting textile products that support the human experience. All the items focus on tactility, materiality, craft and quality. They add warmth, softness...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Cotton
Mid Century Woven Fish Motif Tapestry by Tom Taylor, 1990
By Tom Holland
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Mid Century Woven Fish Motif Tapestry by Tom Taylor, 1990
USA, 1990
This mid-century woven tapestry by Tom Taylor, created in 1990, is a great piec...
Category
Late 20th Century American Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Wood
Wool and Silk Tapestry "POP" design by Marco Grassi for Officina della Scala
Located in Milano, IT
A stunning and majestic accent piece for a contemporary interior, this tapestry is an extraordinary demonstration of craftsmanship and a testament to Pop Art. Designed by contemporar...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
Wool and Silk Tapestry "SUSY" design by Marco Grassi for Officina della Scala
Located in Milano, IT
A pop-inspired rug depicting the delicate and seductive, yet fierce and determined face of a young woman. This stunning design by artist Marco Grassi is a contemporary take on expres...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
Wool and Silk Tapestry "WARS" design by Marco Grassi for Officina della Scala
Located in Milano, IT
Designed by contemporary expressionist artist Marco Grasso, this stunning rug depicts a pop-inspired anti-war propaganda poster. Handmade from 50% silk and 50% wool, it elevates simp...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
20th Century Gaetano Pesce for Expansion Decorative Panel Mod. Arcadia, 1970s
By Expansion, Gaetano Pesce
Located in Turin, Turin
Gaetano Pesce's works are generally eccentric, modern and carry a concept of "happening", which is the transformation of the object.
Experimenter of different forms and materials, h...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Tapestries
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Blue Geometric Needlepoint Artwork Wall Art styled after Josef Albers
Located in New York, NY
A blue geometric needlepoint artwork wall art styled after German artist, Josef Albers, circa late-20th century. This needlepoint piece is admirati...
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wood
‘Holistic’ Linen Wall Tapestry Handmade by Lawrence Kwakye
Located in Voorburg, NL
‘Holistic’, a handmade painting by Lawrence Kwakye consisting of Acrylic on Linen with a beech wooden frame. The holistic painting represents the abstract world of the unknown. A place of dematerialisation and dehumanisation where life is redefined in the eye of the beholder. The viewer is challenged to see the position of humanity from another perspective. Transhumanism and the concept of an uploaded human life form was the inspiration behind this work. An imagination of a science-fiction plot. A distinctive painting with an authentic layered effect; a unique aesthetic experience. Powerful and exclusive, only one of has been made.
About the artist
Lawrence Kwakye (1972, Utrecht) painted his first painting when he was thirteen and with it, unknowingly opened the door to his artistic career. The famous writer and illustrator Tomi Ungerer called him an ‘undeniable talent’ at the time and compared him to the main character in Albert Camus’ novel ‘The Stranger’. As the son of a Ghanaian father and Hungarian mother, raised in the Netherlands, he was constantly exposed to surprises and changes in life and as such automatically developed a ‘contrasting’ view of the world, essential for the magical layering in his later work. Nothing is what you think it is.
After secondary school, Lawrence completed his study ‘Man and Leisure time’ at the Design Academy in Eindhoven, where Lidewij Edelkoort was a guiding force. Unmistakable heritage from that time is the functional and conceptual impact of the many paintings he continued to create alongside his job as designer. Until 2010 when he changed course, established himself as an independent artist and his artistic career gained momentum.
Kwakye’s cultural diversity, his sense of aesthetics, his technical innovative drive and his fascination for transition, or in other words the process of change are clearly reflected in his current work. The result is accessible, the viewer picks it up straight away, but then seduces him into a discussion about what you actually see; it is what it is...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Dutch Modern Tapestries
Materials
Linen, Acrylic, Beech
Janet Taylor Tapestry of Sunset Desert Landscape
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Remarkable over 12’ handwoven tapestry by American artist Janet Taylor depicting red canyon mountain ranges with a distant light yellow sunset along the h...
Category
1980s American Vintage Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
cc-tapis Ceremony Moonlight Handmade Rug by Mae Engelgeer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Designed by textile designer Mae Engelgeer and inspired by the feeling, aesthetics and graphic alignment of the traditional Japanese Tatami flooring, C...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Linen
Dashes Hand Embroidered Geometric Modern Tapestry Wall Hanging
By Leah Singh
Located in Westfield, NJ
This modern, geometric tapestry has been ethically hand embroidered by artisans in Kashmir, India, using a traditional embroidery technique which is native to this region.
The pur...
Category
2010s Indian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Contemporary wool wall tapestry with modern shapes - OPUS XLIII by Mira Sohlen
Located in 1204, CH
This unique Opus tapestry was created for the Collectible Brussels Fair in Brussels 2022.
Opus is a latin word meaning a work, used to mean a particular...
Category
2010s Belgian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
cc-tapis Tcp Collection Car Park 3 Round in Glitch Lime Violet by Odd Matter
By Odd Matter, cc-tapis
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Nostalgia and experimentation lead the creative process responsible for the new TCP, Tonnara Car Park Collection by Dutch based studio Odd Matter. The ephemeral nature of sand became...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas, Dark Pink Planet, Wool Tapestry, Néolice, 2021
Located in Paris, FR
Maïlys Seydoux-Dumas, Beacon, wool tapestry, Néolice, 2021
A wool woven tapestry figuring various objects, plants, sculptures, shellfishes, on a red and dark background.
Woven in sixteen colors.
Signed on the lower right.
Numbered 1/8 EA from an edition of 8.
Néolice, Felletin, France, 2021.
The seventh of a suite of seven works composing « The star’s journey ».
With a poem by Haïm Kern on the back.
DARK PINK PLANET...
Category
2010s French Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Red Yellow Orange and Brown Vintage Rya Rug Wall Hanging
Located in Chattanooga, TN
This versatile vintage Scandinavian Rya rug can be used as a decorative wall hanging or area rug. The brilliant design features varying tones of red, orange, yellow and brown. The geometric design is reminiscent of motifs found in Western Native American folk art. However, the shapes may simply be an example of Scandinavian minimalism and rhythmic composition. Textile wall hangings...
Category
1970s Scandinavian Vintage Modern Tapestries
Materials
Yarn
Old Afyon Kilim Fragment, also for a Sofa
Located in Alessandria, Piemonte
nr. 153 - I bought this fragment for its brightly polychrome colors: it was woven in the city of Afyon, on the plateau in central Anatolia.
I liked it even though it was missing a pi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Turkish Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Gesture cc-tapis Mindscape Realm Handmade Rug by Mae Engelgeer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mindscape by Mae Engelgeer The Mindscape rugs imagining a tranquil space, another universe,? an escapism, a spiritual discovery and staircase to a cosmic scenography. The collection ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Nepalese Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Linen, Silk
North American Woven Geometric Textile Mounted Panel
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Interesting North American woven rug textile mounted on a wooden display panel. Features a colorful geometric pattern and is signed or initiated on bottom R.P. Lovely colors of salmo...
Category
20th Century American Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wood, Wool
Fabric Tapestry with Tiger Design Upholstered Panel on Demand
By sicis
Located in London, GB
Sicis is delighted to welcome you at ‘Home’.
The classically inspired extent in contemporary plays an eclectic style, elegant and refined. Interiors express personality.
A constant...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Silk, Polyester
Full Track Tapestry, Hand-Tufted Wool Multicolored Green Graphic Rug
Located in Miami, FL
The full track tapestry rug draws inspiration from the tracks run by athletes in the ancient Olympic Games. Mixed neutrals and geometric patterns make up this tapestry rug with a neo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
Calman Shemi Large Format Wall Tapestry, 1978
By Calman Shemi
Located in Miami, FL
Monolithic wool wall tapestry by artist Calman Shemi dated 1978. Can be hung horizontal or vertical.
Calman Shemi
Argentine/ Israeli
1939 -
Tapestry
Signed and dated near lowe...
Category
1970s Argentine Vintage Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Fabric Tapestry with Heron Design Upholstered Panel on Demand
By sicis
Located in London, GB
Sicis is delighted to welcome you at ‘Home’.
The classically inspired extent in contemporary plays an eclectic style, elegant and refined. Interiors express personality.
A constant...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Silk, Polyester
Full Track Tapestry, Hand-Tufted Wool Multicolored Green Graphic Rug
Located in Miami, FL
The full track tapestry rug draws inspiration from the tracks run by athletes in the ancient Olympic Games. Mixed neutrals and geometric patterns make up this tapestry rug with a neo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Silk
Fabric Tapestry with Rooster Design Upholstered Panel on Demand
By sicis
Located in London, GB
Sicis is delighted to welcome you at ‘Home’.
The classically inspired extent in contemporary plays an eclectic style, elegant and refined. Interiors express personality.
A constant...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Silk, Polyester
Fabric Tapestry with Rooster Design Upholstered Panel on Demand
By sicis
Located in London, GB
Sicis is delighted to welcome you at ‘Home’.
The classically inspired extent in contemporary plays an eclectic style, elegant and refined. Interiors express personality.
A constant...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Polyester, Silk
Fabric Tapestry with Artistic Rug Design Upholstered Panel on Demand
By sicis
Located in London, GB
Sicis is delighted to welcome you at ‘Home’.
The classically inspired extent in contemporary plays an eclectic style, elegant and refined. Interiors express personality.
A constant...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Polyester, Silk
Beautiful New Modern Hand Knotted, Abstract Design Rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice contemporary abstract design rug with beautiful colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.
Category
2010s Indian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Vintage Persian Shiraz Pictorial Rug, Wall Hanging, Persian Tapestry
Located in Dallas, TX
75045 Vintage Persian Shiraz Pictorial Rug, 03’08 x 05’02. Persian Shiraz pictorial rugs are a distinctive type of Persian rug crafted in the region surrounding the city of Shiraz in...
Category
Late 20th Century Persian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Beautiful New Modern Hand Knotted, Abstract Design Rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice contemporary abstract design rug with beautiful colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.
Category
2010s Indian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Beautiful New Modern Hand Knotted, Abstract Design Rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice contemporary abstract design rug with beautiful colors, entirely hand knotted with wool and silk velvet on cotton foundation.
Category
2010s Indian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Silk
Beautiful New Modern Hand Knotted, Abstract Design Rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice contemporary abstract design rug with beautiful colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.
Category
2010s Indian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Fabric Tapestry with Artistic Rug Design Upholstered Panel on Demand
By sicis
Located in London, GB
Sicis is delighted to welcome you at ‘Home’.
The classically inspired extent in contemporary plays an eclectic style, elegant and refined. Interiors express personality.
A constant...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Polyester, Silk
Beautiful New Modern Hand Knotted, Abstract Design Rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice contemporary abstract design rug with beautiful colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.
Category
2010s Indian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Beautiful New Modern Hand Knotted, Abstract Design Rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice contemporary abstract design rug with beautiful colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.
Category
2010s Indian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Beautiful New Modern Hand Knotted, Abstract Design Rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Nice contemporary abstract design rug with beautiful colors, entirely hand knotted with wool velvet on cotton foundation.
Category
2010s Indian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Nice Modern Abstract Design Knotted Rug
Located in Saint Ouen, FR
Very beautiful contemporary rug with a beautiful design and light colors, entirely hand knotted with Tibetan knots with wool and silk velvet on cotton foundation.
Category
2010s Indian Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
'Title' Quilt Painting Wool Tapestry Textile Art, in Stock
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Under the blanket project, Naomi Clark creates what she titles quilt paintings. She breathes new life into old wool and cotton camping blankets culled f...
Category
2010s American Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Cotton, Acrylic
Walling Braided Wool Contemporary Abstract Sculptural Stripe Rug
By Grain 2
Located in Bainbridge Island, WA
A one-of-a-kind braided mixed material rug inspired by dry stacked stone walls.
Handmade in New England by a mill with 30 years of manufacturing experience, this unique rug is br...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Stunning Interpretation Paul Gauguin Maternity Needlepoint Lucite Wall Hanging
By Paul Gauguin
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Stunning needlepoint interpretation of Paul Gauguin's painting "Maternity" (three women on the seashore). This piece of needlework is wonderfully handc...
Category
1970s American Vintage Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool, Canvas, Lucite
Large Modern French Tapestry by J.L Viard
By J.L. Viard
Located in NYC, NY
A tapestry by French artist J.L Viard for Murmure des Sylves. Tightly woven wool and wool blends.
Signed on the front and again the reverse tag with an edition 21 of 100.
Category
1970s French Vintage Modern Tapestries
Materials
Wool
Modern tapestries for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Modern tapestries 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 tapestries created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include wall decorations, rugs and carpets, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with fabric, wool and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Modern tapestries made in a specific country, there are Asia, South Asia, and India pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original tapestries, popular names associated with this style include cc-tapis, sicis, Geraldine Larkin, and Patricia Urquiola. 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. Prices for tapestries differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $150 and tops out at $79,000 while the average work can sell for $7,449.
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