524 results for "rationalist"

An iconic design distinguished by armrests that merge aesthetic beauty and functionality, this chair is a gorgeous piece by Franco Albini, a Rationalist architect from the 20th century. Fashioned of barrique-finished mahogany, the sleek structure features a continuous movement of bold visual impact. The seat and back are covered with green fabric, entirely customizable upon request. An outdoor cover...

Round table model T72 in wood, black lacquered metal and brass details, designed by Ettore Sottsass and produced by Poltronova in the late 1950s. The T72 table has a strong base mad...

A mobile valet stand featuring drawers, shelves, and a coat rack, crafted from walnut wood, glass, and brass, Italian manufacturing from the 1950s. Essential for an entryway and hig...

Memphis and Post-Modern style wall lamps with geometric design in the style Harvey Guzzini, Italy, 1970s (set of 2). Triangular-shaped body formed by two acrylic or methacrylate piec...

Circa 1968 manufacturer’s catalog for the Italian lighting company Flos, showcasing the innovative and influential designs by Tobia Scarpa and by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglion...

A rare and early, documented dining chair by Bastiaan Johannes “Bas” van Pelt (1900–1945) - Dutch interior architect, furniture designer, entrepreneur and noted member of the resista...

Memphis and Post-Modern style wall lamp with geometric design in the style Harvey Guzzini, Italy, 1970s. Triangular-shaped body formed by two acrylic or methacrylate pieces joined to...

Here we see a decision to project the universal ideals of modernity onto Indian reality. However, these pieces were inspired by North Indian culture, as well the cosmic and spiritua...

Amazing midcentury Rattan shell armchair. This piece was produced in Italy in the 1950s and is attributed to the mastery of Franco Albini. The uniqueness of this armchair is due t...

Marvellous midcentury armchairs with tubular steel structure and seats. "Lens" model was designed by Giovanni Offredi and produced for Saporiti, around 1968 in Italy. These items are made of a stunning new stain-resistant, fire-retardant petrol blue velvet. A magnificent and iconic set that will be perfect for a living room or study, thanks to the brightness of the chromed steel structure. These pieces are in amazing vintage conditions as shown in the photos. The shipping quote refers to the chairs shipped with the seating disassembled from the chrome base. Giovanni Offredi (born 1927, Milan–died 2007, Milan) was a prominent Italian furniture and product designer of the second half of the 20th century. As opposed to most of the other Italian furniture designers of his time, Giovanni Offredi was not an architect, nor did he start designing early in his professional career. Instead, Offredi partially fits the career path of some of the talented contemporary designers who pursue product design outside of a formal education in architecture. The earliest furniture design work known by Giovanni Offredi consists of exemplary furnishings made specifically for some of the wealthy families in Milan. Such is the case of the works done by Offredi for Casa C., in 1960, in Gorgonzola, a small town 14 miles from Milan. These works were designed with a surprisingly minimal simplicity and elegance, and they also clearly display a hallmark of his design work with the use of angular lines and exposed metal or wood frames—not unlike some of the modern Scandinavian design of the time. In the late 1960s, Giovanni Offredi met Sergio Saporiti, the owner of Italian design shop and furniture maker Saporiti, and in 1970, Offredi formalized a partnership with the furniture maker. This partnership would be long and successful and resulted in many furniture designs of distinct precision that were clearly modern and innovative and that went on to enjoy considerable commercial success. The most prominent furniture designs that Offredi made for Saporiti include the Paracarro table...

Franco Albini Tre Pezzi Armchari For Cassina In 1959, working with Franca Helg, his long-time assistant, Franco Albini designed Tre Pezzi, a c...

Osvaldo Borsani for Arredamenti Borsani Varedo, sideboard, chestnut, brass, Italy, first half of the 1930s An early and refined design by Italian visionary Osvaldo Borsani, this ra...

Pyramid table designed by Wim Rietveld. Manufactured by Ahrend de Cirkel in Netherlands, circa 1960. The table has the steel frame. In good original condition, with minor wear...

OLOF HULT - SCANDINAVIAN MODERN Trädgårdsurnor "Mikrokosmos" by Olof Hult, Sweden. Cast iron with natural patina. Model exhibited at The International Exposition of Modern Indus...

Ignazio Gardella for Azucena, 'Doppio Vetro' wall light, model 'LP7', brass, glass, Italy, 1955 The Doppio Vetro wall light, designed by Ignazio Gardella, stands as a defining piec...

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld Black Red And Blue Armchair For Cassina A variation of the iconic 1918 chair by G. T. Rietveld, the Black Red and Blue wood armchair grew out of the Dutch mas...

This unique architect's desk was designed by Frits Spanjaard in 1932. With its generous proportions, striking asymmetry, contrasting woods and the large knobs in solid Macassar ebony, the desk can be considered as an important example of the Haagse School (The Hague School) style. The desk has four large drawers on the right, which can be simultaneously locked with a single key. The interior on the left features six drawers and additional storage, and can be locked altogether as well. Particularly noteworthy are the four cleverly incorporated pull-out shelves of different dimensions creating additional space: two on the front, one on the right side and one large shelf on the back side. The desktop is executed in dark stained oak and features a dark grey leather insert. in 1932, the prosperous Van Stolk & Reese company commissioned Spanjaard to design the interior and furniture of their offices located on the Ceintuurbaan in Rotterdam. This custom desk was most likely designed for the office of the company’s director, which was designed by Spanjaard in a radically modernist way, combining his own sumptuous designs with the functionalist tubular steel furniture made by W.H. Gispen. Between 1925 and 1935 the work of Spanjaard was strongly connected to the Haagse School movement of which he’d become a main proponent. This style was not so much inspired by the Classic European Art Deco capitals such as Paris and Vienna but more by other national and international architectural developments such as the work of Frank Lloyd Wright. The influential magazine Wendingen published a series of articles on Wright still relatively unknown at the time in 1925 and the renowned architect Jan Wils also played an important role in the orientation towards Wrights work in The Netherlands. In its particular application of geometric shapes, primary colours and its sophisticated cubist division of the surface, the Haagse School designers were also aware of De Stijl movement, lead by contemporaries such as Gerrit Rietveld and Piet Mondriaan. At the same time the geometry, the harmonious proportions and the understated decorations were primarily based on the rationalist design principles of H.P. Berlage, who would later become one of Spanjaard’s clients himself. Design had to meet the functional demands of the user but purely utilitarian ideas were certainly not the most important. Due to his frequent travels to Germany, Spanjaard was also familiar with the designs of Marcel Breuer and Mies van der Rohe, especially appreciating the simplicity and purity of their designs. Biography Frits Spanjaard (1889-1978) started his career as the artistic director of the LOV furniture...

Summer scene with lily pads. Watercolor on paper by John J Inglis. Signed. Early 20th century. Unfamed. Image area measures 7.75" x 5.75. John Inglis, o...

Wonderful Mid-Century round stool or side table in curved bamboo and hand-woven rattan wicker. This gorgeous organic stool was produced in Italy during the 1960s and designed by the ...

This exquisite abstract sculpture, crafted from iron, is a striking piece inspired by the bold and evocative works of renowned Spanish artist Eduardo Chillida. Made in Spain around 1...

Ignazio Gardella for Azucena, set of ten armchairs, model P10 / R63, faux leather, nickel-plated brass, Italy, design 1963 A rare set of armchairs by Milanese architect Ignazio Gard...

A rare mahogany version of the Cavaletto or TL2 table designed by the great neo-rationalist designer, Franco Albini. Designed in 1950 for manufacturers Poggi...

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld Zig Zag Chair For Cassina Designed by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld in 1934 and quickly deemed a design icon, t...

This exquisite abstract sculpture, crafted from iron, is a striking piece inspired by the bold and evocative works of renowned Spanish artist Eduardo Chillida. Made in Spain around 1...

Chair designed by Gerrit Rietveld in 1920. Relaunched in 2015. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. One of the versions of the iconic model dated 1918. The structure is in black-stained beechwood with white contrasting parts. Seat and back in green lacquered multiplywood. The armchair can have a single seat and backrest cushion in fabric or leather. The black red and blue (Zeilmaker version) born from Rietveld’s chromatic experimentation While researching the origins of the red and blue model in collaboration with the Rietveld heirs, it emerged that the key idea of the first prototypes was based on the concept of spatial organization expressed through the monochrome tones of its elements. The first version was in fact produced in 1918 in completely unpainted wood.   In the following years Rietveld proposed various examples, either monochrome or painted in different colors, depending on the requirements of his customers and the interiors for which the chairs were intended. As such, it comes as no surprise to find this 1920s version, presented as part of Cassina’s MutAzioni selection, created for the school teacher Wicher Zeilmaker with a black frame with white ends and a dark green painted seat and backrest.  It was Rietveld’s ever-increasing involvement in the De Stijl movement that led him to also use primary colors on this model in 1923, and as such the chair became a veritable manifesto for the emerging neoplastic movement. Initially dubbed slat chair, Rietveld only gave it the name red and blue in the 1950s following its chromatic evolution. The various owners of the different examples used the chair as an abstract-realist sculpture in their interiors and, in some cases, as a simple tool for sitting on, adding cushions to make it more comfortable, just like Cassina offers for the black red and blue today. Important information regarding images of products: Please note that some of the images show other colors and variations of the model, these images are only to present interior design proposals. The item that is selling is on the first image. Important information regarding color(s) of products: Actual colors may vary. This is due to the fact that every computer monitor, laptop, tablet and phone screen has a different capability to display colors and that everyone sees these colors differently. We try to edit our photos to show all of our products as life-like as possible, but please understand the actual color may vary slightly from your monitor About the designer: Gerrit Thomas Rietveld, born in Utrecht on 24 June 1888, seems possessed of two personalities, each so distinct that one might take his work to be that of more than one artist. The first personality is that seen in the craftsman cabinet-maker working in a primordial idiom, re-inventing chairs and other furniture as if no one had ever built them before him and following a structural code all of his own; the second is that of the architect working with elegant formulas, determined to drive home the rationalist and neoplastic message in the context of European architecture. The two activities alternate, overlap, and fuse in a perfect osmosis unfolding then into a logical sequence. In 1918 Rietveld joined the “De Stijl” movement which had sprung up around the review of that name founded the year before by Theo van Doesburg. The group assimilated and translated into ideology certain laws on the dynamic breakdown of compositions (carrying them to an extreme) that had already been expressed in painting by the cubists: the “De Stijl” artists also carefully studied the architectonic lesson taught by the great Frank Lloyd Wright, whose influence was widely felt in Europe at that time. Collaborating first with Robert van’t Hoff and Vilmos Huszar...

Rene Gabriel for Lieuvin, lounge chair model RG178, oak, France, design circa 1946. This chair is designed by the French artist René Gabriel, known for his reconstructivist approach...

Midcentury amazing floor lsamp un Bamboo, rattan and fabric in the style of Franco Albini. Made in Italy in the 1960s. A beautiful floor lamp that is perfectly working but most of ...

Gorgeous midcentury rectangular wall shelf in curved rattan, bamboo and hand-woven wicker. This charming French Riviera style shelf was designed by Franco Albini and produced in Ita...

Elegant pair of modernist armchairs attributed to Francis Jourdain, a key figure in early 20th-century French design. The black lacquered wood frames feature clean, geometric lines e...

PL19 also known as Tre Pezzi armchair with black enameled steel tube structure, upholstered in white Mongolian goat wool. Designed by Franco Albini & Franca Helg for Poggi, Pavia...

Elegant, bold, and timeless: this rare bar cabinet designed by Willy Rizzo is the perfect embodiment of his unmistakable style, suspended between rationalist functionalism and sophis...

The Göteborg chair is Erik Gunnar Asplund’s poetic interpretation of Rationalist ideas. The chair was commissioned for the extension of the Town Hall in Göteborg, Sweden, whose warm,...

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld Black Red And Blue Armchair For Cassina A variation of the iconic 1918 chair by G. T. Rietveld, the Black Red and Blue wood armchair grew out of the Dutch mas...

A stunning mid-century modern credenza by the legendary Italian designer Gio Ponti, crafted circa 1950–1951 for M. Singer & Sons. This exquisite Model 2160 features a sleek, low-prof...

Magnificent Geometric Table Attributed to Architect Tito Pinori - Italian Design, 1970s-1980s A stunning example of sculptural Italian design, this geometric table attributed to arch...

Franco Albini TL3 Table For Cassina A design table with an innovative take-apart concept for which architect Franco Albini uses the strut component,...

Rare Ernesto Lapadula armchair from the Italian Art Deco period produced in 1930. The armchair can also be classified of the Italian Rationalist perio...

Rosewood veneered body on the front flared frame in solid rosewood welcomes central decorated glass and maple side doors finished with green aniline. Futurist-style handles are made ...

Step into a landmark moment in postmodern design with this Capodanno table lamp—an object that marks Ettore Sottsass’s decisive break from the austere functionalism of his Rationalis...

A striking and rare pair of clamp-mounted spotlights by renowned Swiss designer Dieter Waeckerlin, circa 1960s. These sculptural lamps epitomize Waeckerlin’s minimalist ethos, mergin...

Chair designed by Erik Gunnar in 1934-1937. Relaunched in 1983. Manufactured by Cassina in Italy. The Göteborg chair is Erik Gunnar Asplund’s poetic...

Stunning wall shelf in curved rattan and bamboo. This unique object was made in Italy in the 1960s and is attributed to the mastery of Franco Albini. This gorgeous wall shelf is fully made in curved rattan with a structure made of a single curved bamboo cane. The whole is kept together by a stunning weave of rattan wicker. The materials used make this shelf light...

Giuseppe Pagano was an Italian architect and designer, notable for his involvement in the movement of rationalist architecture in Italy up to the end of the Second World War. He desi...

Wonderful midcentury pair of "Bolla Lamp" in white perspex. Elio Martinelli designed these items were produced in Italy during the 1960s. These white plexi...

Lovely mid-century round stool in bamboo, rattan and wicker. Franco Albini designed this piece in Italy during the 1960s. This pouf is made in a gorgeous combination of curved bambo...

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld Zig Zag Chair For Cassina Designed by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld in 1934 and quickly deemed a design icon, t...

Wonderful French Riviera style pouf in curved rattan and hand-woven wicker. This delightful organic stool was designed by Franco Albini in Italy during the 1960s. This round organic...

Art Decò Rounded cabinet dry bar sideboard front and side doors by Alfio Fallica for Alfonso Liporesi, in white oak with illuminated upper compartment. G...

The minimalist and incredibly comfortable 'LC3' series chairs designed by Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Charlotte Perriand for Cassina. Large and in-charge, the 'LC3 - Fauteuil Grand Confort...

“Delfi” dining table, designed by Carlo Scarpa and Marcel Breuer and produced by the Italian manufacturer Studio Simon in 1969. Made of white Nax...

Wonderful midcentury white plexiglass "Bubble Lamp" wall or ceiling Light. This item was produced in Italy during the 1960s. This sconce was designed by Elio Martinelli, this white plexiglass lamp...

Extraordinary Mid-Century wall shelf in curved rattan, bamboo and wicker. This marvellous object was made in Italy in the 1960s and is attributed to the mastery of Franco Albini. Th...

Franco Albini Stadera Desk Table For Cassina The desk-table designed by Franco Albini makes a striking first impression, thanks to the two side-by-side trapezoidal tops supported by...

Ico Parisi for Cassina, pair of lounge chairs, model '875', leatherette, chrome-plated steel, Italy, design 1960, production 1960-1966 The '875' lounge chairs, designed by Ico Paris...

With its stacked elevation and subtle indentation, the Caldera Bowl echoes the rationalist architecture of Carlo Scarpa. Carved from marble, its refined form and textured surface inv...

Gerrit Thomas Rietveld Zig Zag Chair For Cassina Designed by Gerrit Thomas Rietveld in 1934 and quickly deemed a design icon, th...

Marvellous Mid-Century rectangular wall mirror in bamboo and rattan. This Cote d'Azur style mirror is attributed to the craftsmanship of Franco Albini and was designed in Italy durin...

Vittorio Introini for Saporiti, wall-mounted sideboard, aluminum, glass, lacquered ash, Italy, 1960s Exceptional sideboard designed by Vittorio Introini for Saporiti in the 1960s. ...

The Flying Carpet or Tappeto Volante armchair is an iconic seat with a base and an armrest in beech wood, the seat, and the back are made with polyuret...

Side table or guéridon. Tripod brass base holding a stained mirror tray, walnut edge. Brass, wallnut and stained mirror The model created around 1940. Italy 1960's Osvaldo Borsani...