Modern Furniture
Modern furniture refers to furniture produced from the late 19th
century through the present that is influenced by modernism. It was
a tremendous departure from all furniture design that had gone
before it. Dark or gilded carved wood and richly patterned fabrics
gave way to the glittering simplicity and geometry of polished
metal. The forms of furniture evolved from visually heavy to
visually light.
Prior to the modernist design movement there was an emphasis on
furniture as ornament, the length of time a piece took to create was
often a measure of its value and desirability. During the first half
of the 19th Century a new philosophy emerged shifting the emphasis
to function and accessibility. Western design generally, whether
architectural or design of furniture had for millennia sought to
convey an idea of lineage, a connection with tradition and history.
The modern movement sought newness, originality, technical
innovation, and ultimately the message that it conveyed spoke of the
present and the future, rather than of what had gone before it.
Modernist design seems to have evolved out of a combination of
influences: Technically innovative materials and manufacturing
methods, the new philosophies that emerged from the Werkbund and the
Bauhaus School, from exotic foreign influences, from Art Nouveau and
from the tremendous creativity of the artists and designers of that
era.
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