Modern Carts and Bar Carts
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 The modernists rejected both natural and historical references and relied primarily on industrial materials such as metal, glass, plywood, and, later, plastics.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.
21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
1980s Italian Vintage Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Iron
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
20th Century Italian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass, Chrome
20th Century Italian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Aluminum
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Aluminum
Mid-20th Century French Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Mid-20th Century French Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Aluminum
Late 20th Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
20th Century Belgian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Metal, Brass, Steel
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
Mid-20th Century Italian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Plastic
1950s Dutch Vintage Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Glass, Maple
1970s American Vintage Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Lucite
Late 20th Century French Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass, Chrome
1990s Italian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Metal
Late 20th Century Unknown Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Metal
21st Century and Contemporary North American Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
20th Century American Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
1970s Italian Vintage Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Metal, Brass, Chrome
Late 20th Century Italian Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
20th Century American Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
1960s Argentine Vintage Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass
1980s German Vintage Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Chrome, Metal
1970s American Vintage Modern Carts and Bar Carts
20th Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Brass, Chrome