Modern Home Accents
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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
DeCastelli Monolìte Divider by Tipstudio
By DeCastelli, TIPSTUDIO
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monolìte is an architectonic partition that, like a solid body smoothed by nature’s erosive elements, evokes geological formations along its surface.
This partition is a vertical el...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
$22,780 / item
Medium
Large, Bookends Cuyo, Onix Stone
Silver Alpaca
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
4" x 4" x 7.8"
4.8 "x 4.8" x 9.5"
Cuyo bookends are solid heavy beautiful pieces of geometrical onyx stone, mostly in square base and round top. Very sharm for a personal library.
...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Home Accents
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
Classic Gucci Bookends
By Gucci
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A pair of Classic bookends by Gucci. Classic brown leather stripe with brass bases. Beautiful stitching and attention to details.
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
$1,800 / set
Cuyo Large Alpaca Silver
Bordeaux Onyx Stone Pair of Bookends
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Cuyo bookends are solid heavy beautiful pieces of geometrical onyx stone, mostly in square base and round top. Very sharm for a personal library.
Our pieces are made by hand. One of...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Home Accents
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
Velvet Dark Gold Rabbit Door Stopper / Bookends
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
Velvet dark gold rabbit as a door stopper / bookends.
Made in Italy:
Made in Italy furniture means design, quality, style and sophistication.
The typical...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Velvet
Vintage Cast Brass Double Tennis Racket Bookends, Pair
Located in Elkhart, IN
A beautiful pair of cast brass bookends in the form of two tennis rackets and tennis balls.
USA, Circa 1980s
Measures: 5.5"W x 2.63"D x 5.5"H.
Good original vintage condition.
Category
1980s American Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
DeCastelli Dog House N°1 in Natural Corten by Filippo Pisan
By DeCastelli
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Dog House n°1 reinvents homes for our furry friends. Created as a version of Cottage n°1, it offers a conceptual revisitation of traditional kennels, focusing on the intrinsic charac...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
DeCastelli Nest House N.1 in Natural Corten by Filippo Pisan
By DeCastelli
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Our care for the environment around us can also be seen in the attention paid to our small friends in the animal kingdom. A small birdhouse can set the stage, with a structure that’s...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Fir
"Secrets"Contemporary Screen, one of a kind, Satin Silk, Brass, Silvered Glass
Located in Pietrasanta, IT
SECRETS blossomed inner secrets
This Secrets screen is a contemporary work of art, entirely handmade in Tuscany, Italy, 100% of Italian origin.
Three solid birch wood panels covered in satin silk, with its Lotus leaf and petals, bamboo leaves, dandelion flowers, embedded pyrite buds , butterfly knobs...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Salta Round Brown Onyx Stone Pair of Bookends
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Home Accents
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
Anacleto Screen
By Da A
Located in Milan, IT
This indoor-outdoor screen is both a functional and decorative object of subtle sophistication. Inspired by the Disney character Archimedes from the Sword in the Stone...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Steel
$6,520 / item
Gervasoni Black Three Door Folding Screen in Bamboo by Paola Navone
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Three-door folding screen, Black 90 enhances the naturalness of black bamboo: fine rods of different lengths are interlocked overlapping to give dynamism to the product. A contrast of fullness and emptiness, of seeing and not seeing made possible thanks to the vanishing lines between one rod and the other, allowing our sight to go beyond the immediately apparent. Three doors folding partition...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bamboo
Art Deco Garden Screen 4 Panels By André Fu Living
By André Fu
Located in Admiralty, HK
designed as a nod to the beauty of japanese zen gardens, this artfully designed movable screen is visually pure in its composition, yet intricate at the same time. crafted in solid a...
Category
2010s Chinese Modern Home Accents
Materials
Ash
$20,618 / item
James Bearden "Meteor Storm Screen"
Located in New York, NY
Sonic sculpture of torch-cut and polychromed steel, fused bronze, solvent dyes, and glass enamel. An elongated version of "Meteor Storm" that can serve as a screen or divider. A 2019...
Category
2010s American Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bronze, Enamel, Steel
Hand Carved brutalist Decorative Etsa Totem Sculpture Medium
By Egg Designs
Located in Bothas Hill, KZN
All our totem sculptures are hand-carved in Southern Africa from sustainable African alien timber by a group of Zimbabwean artists who set their own prices, thus making them fair tra...
Category
2010s South African Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Vintage Cast Brass Golf Club Bookends, Pair
Located in Elkhart, IN
A beautiful pair of cast brass bookends in the form of golf clubs and golf balls.
Circa 1980s
Measures: 5.5"W x 2.63"D x 5.75"H.
Very good original vintage condition.
Category
1980s Taiwanese Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Salta Large Square Black Onyx Stone Pair of Bookends
By AIREDELSUR
Located in Buenos Aires, AR
Salta province is called the beautiful, and this adjective introduces us to its profound beauty. Its fertile valleys, windy desert, colorful mountains and blue sky are the images tha...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Home Accents
Materials
Stone, Onyx, Metal
$1,100 / item
Gervasoni Black Screen in Bamboo by Paola Navone
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Black bamboo screen, Black 199 is a clear reference to the earth and the naturalness of the materials. Like a tapestry hung within a frame in Canaletto walnut available in wood lacqu...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bamboo
$2,430 / item
Italian Handcrafted 3 Part Jungle Dome Screen Midnight Blue Laquered Wood
Located in Scandicci, Florence
Midnight Blu lacquered wood carefully crafted to enhance light and shadow. Insertion of tropical prints on 100% cotton paper.
From the Jungle Dome collection designed by Massimilian...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Glass, Paper, Wood
Hand Carved brutalist Decorative Nankong Totem Sculpture #3 Large
By Egg Designs
Located in Bothas Hill, KZN
All our totem sculptures are hand-carved in Southern Africa from sustainable African alien timber by a group of Zimbabwean artists who set their own prices, thus making them fair tra...
Category
2010s South African Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass, Steel
Baleri Italia Cartoons Screen in Paper Customized Pantone Colors by Luigi Baroli
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Cartoons creates a spatial division that is baroque and minimalist at the same time. The idea of the screen is a sublime mystification: a wall that is ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Aluminum
DeCastelli Painting Room Divider in Black
Green Color
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A large screen designed as a theatre curtain represents imaginary natural landscapes on both sides: a night sky and the outline of a series of hills. The chromatic variations obtaine...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
$31,229 / item
Japanese Post War Aluminum Riveted Trunk on Iron Stand with Glass Top, Restored
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Japanese Post War Aluminum Riveted Trunk on Iron Stand with Glass Top, Restored
Experience a significant piece of history in an elegant form with our Japanese post war aluminum rive...
Category
20th Century Japanese Modern Home Accents
Materials
Iron, Aluminum
$1,516 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pair of Faux Marble Pop Art "Nose" Bookends
Located in San Diego, CA
Pair of large faux marble surrealist pop art "nose" bookends, circa 1970s. They are in good vintage condition and each bookend measures: 4" W x 8.75" H x 6.5" D. Super fun edition to...
Category
Early 20th Century American Modern Home Accents
Materials
Resin
$680 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Ego Screen Pearl White Large by Karim Rashid for Scarlet Splendour
By Karim Rashid
Located in Kolkata, IN
Ego screen pearl white is a breathtaking maze-like pattern of the human face. It can be used as a divider or even a console. The Ego Screen is an illusion...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
20th Century Continental Hand-Painted Oil on Board Four-Fold Floor Screen
Located in Germantown, MD
Continental Hand- Painted Wood Four-Fold Floor Screen. Oil on board fllor screen or room divider.
Measures 64" in width and stands 72" tall.
Category
20th Century American Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood, Paint
$3,746 Sale Price
25% Off
Contemporary Monumental Three Fold Maple and Glass Screen/Room Divider
Located in Queens, NY
Contemporary monumental 3-fold screen / room divider with burl maple frame and central glass panels with silver metal hardware.
Category
20th Century Unknown Modern Home Accents
Materials
Glass
Sunset Oak Screen with Artisanal Dunes
Sunset-Inspired Veneer Detailing
Located in Cairo, EG
Bring the magic of rolling dunes and radiant sunsets into your living space with this captivating piece. Designed as a striking focal point to be shared and admired, it transforms yo...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Egyptian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Oak, Acrylic
$9,585 Sale Price
10% Off
Gorgeous Pair of Multi Sommerso Art Glass Obelisks by Luigi Onesto for Murano
By Luigi Onesto
Located in San Diego, CA
Gorgeous pair of multi sommerso art glass obelisks by Luigi Onesto for Murano Glass, circa 1996. The pair are in very good vintage condition with one small scratch on the backside o...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Murano Glass
Christian Caudron, Contemporary Obelisk Lamp, White Alabaster, Marble Base
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Contempory white alabaster Obelisk lamp designed and produced by Christian Caudron, Meilleur Ouvrier de France 2015*, in his Parisian workshop.
The Obelisk is made of alabaster, a t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Modern Home Accents
Materials
Alabaster, Marble
20th Century Trunk for Storage
Located in Miami, FL
20th century chest on bracket feet with a top that opens to reveal storage and drawers below.
Category
1940s Spanish Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Pine
Frosted Glass Horse Head Bookends with Black Glass Base in the Style of Lalique
By Lalique
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Solid glass Horse head bookends with solid black glass base. The pair are wonderful and are very reminiscent of Lalique. Very sophist...
Category
20th Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Art Glass, Wood
$720 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Esther Fuhrman Abstract Bronze Stairway Scupture
20th C.
Located in San Diego, CA
Incredible piece by Esther Fuhrman (American, b. 1939). This beautiful abstract modern bronze sculpture of a stairway leading to a gold-tone element pie...
Category
1980s American Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bronze
$680 Sale Price / item
20% Off
Hand Carved brutalist Decorative Nankong Totem Sculpture #2 Medium
By Egg Designs
Located in Bothas Hill, KZN
All our totem sculptures are hand-carved in Southern Africa from sustainable African alien timber by a group of Zimbabwean artists who set their own prices, thus making them fair tra...
Category
2010s South African Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass, Steel
Large Red Boho Coconut Shell Obelisk Sculpture by Maitland Smith
Located in Palm Springs, CA
1970’s Red coconut shell with aged brass feet obelisk sculpture by Maitland Smith.
Constructed of wood covered with tessellated stained red coconut shell and cleared lacquered with ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Coral, Brass
Aurora Pink Portal Glass Bookends, ANDREW HUGHES
Located in New York, NY
The Portal design is a simple exercise in optics and color. The Aurora color and reflective light are diffused by a surface etching on the top third of the interior of each bookend. ...
Category
2010s American Modern Home Accents
Materials
Blown Glass
$3,000 / set
Magazine rack att. to Franco Albini
Located in Lugo, IT
Bamboo magazine rack
Good Condition
Thank you
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Stone Bookends
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Stone Bookends, nice color weight and size! Ready to go!
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Stone
$265 / set
Roto Screen / Room Divider, Steel Frame, Brass and Copper Mesh by Mario Milana
By Mario Milana
Located in Milano, Lombardia
The rotO is a room divider composed of three circular elements that overlap and unfold by rolling. This rotational object creates a dynamic screen, or room divider, that plays with t...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass, Copper, Steel
Cerca Screen by Alva Design
Located in Geneve, CH
Cerca Screen by Alva Design
Dimensions: D 3 x W 290 x H 185 cm.
Materials: Solid wood (Peroba Mica) and brass.
Available in different wood options. Th...
Category
2010s Brazilian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
$13,427 / item
1950s, Venini Glass Spiraling Obelisk
By Venini
Located in Roma, IT
Spiraling clear-glass obelisk with red flame-like intrusions made by Venini. One of the most celebrated models of Venini.
This type of glass is called "Vetro Sommerso", model 4256 fr...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Glass
Welcome Biombo Room Divider by Sofia Alvarado
Located in Geneve, CH
Welcome Biombo Room Divider by Sofia Alvarado
Unique piece
Materials: Metal base, Guayacan wood, mirror glass
Dimensions: 185cm (H) x 300cm (W)
FI is an ornamental artist who embodi...
Category
2010s Panamanian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
$17,113 / item
Modular Metal
Textile Room Divider from Salon of Art + Design by Costantini
By Costantini
Located in New York, NY
Modular Metal & Textile Room Divider from Salon of Art + Design by Costantini and Virginia Harper
Costantini collaborated with Virginia Harper for the 14th Edition of the Salon of A...
Category
2010s Argentine Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Collection of Vintage Luggage, a Set of Four English Travel Cases
Located in London, GB
Collection of vintage luggage, a set of four English travel cases.
English, 20th Century
Green: height 18cm, width 67cm, depth 38cm.
Tan: height...
Category
20th Century English Modern Home Accents
Materials
Leather
Interlock Screen 4 Panels By André Fu Living
By André Fu
Located in Admiralty, HK
a timeless screen designed to integrate seamlessly into all interiors. be it used as a backdrop behind a sofa setting, or a partition besides a dining room, its ability to provide a degree of screening gives endless possibilities. crafted entirely with ash strips that interlock and thoughtful detailing that allows each panel to fully fold back, it is a piece to entice all spaces.
Wooden screen with 4 foldable panels in oak with bronze detail on the top edge, with wooden hinges.
Category
2010s Chinese Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bronze
$21,023 / item
Giovannozzi Home, Partition Wall in Portoro Marble and Metal Brass Finish, Italy
Located in Tivoli Terme, Roma
Partition wall composed in Portoro marble and metal brass finishing, created by Michele Arcarese Architect together with Giovannozzi.
- Slabs in marbl...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Marble, Brass
Rainbow Nesting Sculpture, Contemporary Colored Concrete Piece by Erik Olovsson
Located in Stockholm, SE
Rainbow nesting sculpture made in colored concrete in 4 separate pieces. Each piece is casted in high quality pastina cement by skilled craftsmen from Italy. The sculpture could be u...
Category
2010s Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Concrete
Vintage Italian Hand Painted Screen Styled After Maitland Smith
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage Italian Hand Painted Screen Styled After Maitland Smith
The ruins of Roman buildings overlook wooded hills. Expressive clouds floa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Restoration Hardware Industrial Modern Metal Spinning Globe Bookends - a Pair
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Restoration Hardware Industrial Modern Metal Spinning Globe Bookends - a Pair. Circa Late 20th Century. Measurements: 6.5" H x 5" W x 6...
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Geometric Oak Room Wood Divider Screen Moon by Ana Volante
By Ana Volante
Located in Miami, FL
Oak wood moon divider
Baltic birch plywood with quarter cut white oak veneer
Designed by Ana Volante
Dimensions each pyramid
160cm x 50cm x 42...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Home Accents
Materials
Plywood
Fornasetti Bookends Gift Tema E Variazioni N. 171 Black/White/Red Metal
By Fornasetti
Located in MILANO, IT
There can be wit and unpredictability in the order: this was Fornasetti idea when he designed his first bookends. The mix of images with their functional design make these accessorie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Vintage Norman Bleckner Brass Bull Bookends Pair Of
Located in North Miami, FL
These pair of vintage polished Norman Bleckner brass bull bookends have the original label on the bottom. New black felt feet were replaced with the ol...
Category
1970s American Vintage Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Giovannozzi Home, Partition Wall in Green Marble and Metal Brass Finish, Italy
Located in Tivoli Terme, Roma
Partition wall composed in green marble and metal brass finishing, created by Michele Arcarese Architect together with Giovannozzi.
- Slabs in marble ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Marble, Brass
Reverso Separè Sunset by Draga&Aurel Resin and Brass 21st Century
By Draga
Aurel
Located in Como, IT
Exploring transparency in epoxy resin, Reverso is a dual-facing room divider that adds a colored veil to the surrounding space. The soft, shaded nuances are achieved through a handcr...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Contemporary Monumental Three Fold White Wood and Glass Screen/Room Divider
Located in Queens, NY
Contemporary monumental 3-fold screen / room divider with white lacquer painted wooden frame and central glass panels with silver metal hardware.
Category
20th Century Unknown Modern Home Accents
Materials
Glass
White Brera Bookcase, Designed by Lievore Altherr Molina
Located in Beverly Hills, CA
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This bookcase main peculiarity are some vertical elements which break the linear con...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Lacquer
Bronze Screen
By FOS
Located in Copenhagen, DK
The bronze screen by FOS is placed in the center of the exhibition Warm Leatherette. Functioning as a tissue in the lung that FOS created for the exhibition.
Using a traditional met...
Category
2010s Danish Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bronze
$55,049
Shade Low Divider in Pink Vip Upholstery with Matt Black Base by Marco Zito
By Marco Zito
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Shade, as in the Japanese meaning of “divider”, has been restyled in a contemporary way and found a place in the living area. Shade is a filter, a divider, a compact system created for constructing spaces: decorating, separating, reserving private and intimate corners. The two sizes and the different textiles for...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Home Accents
Materials
Upholstery
Vintage Pair of Dolphins Bronze Bookends
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage pair of bronze dolphins bookends.
The dolphin figurines are displayed hovering a wave
Size: each 10" height x 3" x 5".
Weight: heavy: 5lbs. 8.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bronze
$450 / set
Leather Bookend Brown Epi In the Style of Louis Vuitton
Located in New York, NY
A single (one) rich brown epi leather booked, in the style of French Masion, Louis Vuitton (LV), in the Modern or Minimalist design style, circa late-20th century. Very good conditio...
Category
Late 20th Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Leather
$460 Sale Price
20% Off
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