Outdoor Furniture Philippe Starck
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Plastic
1990s Italian Modern Stools
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Lanterns
Aluminum, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Lanterns
Aluminum, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Chairs
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Lanterns
Aluminum, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Lanterns
Aluminum, Stainless Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Stools
Aluminum
2010s Italian Post-Modern Stools
Plastic
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Steel
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Steel
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chairs
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Lounge Chairs
Fabric, Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Table Lamps
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Side Tables
Resin
21st Century and Contemporary Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Armchairs
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Armchairs
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Armchairs
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Loveseats
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Floor Lamps
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Armchairs
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Armchairs
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Armchairs
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Armchairs
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Stools
Plastic
1990s Italian Mid-Century Modern Tables
Metal, Steel
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Chairs
Plastic
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Armchairs
Plastic
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A Close Look at modern Furniture
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.