The Glass Contemporary Coffee Table

I am your classic passionate enthusiast when it comes to Contemporary Furniture. My particular passion and focus is on the Glass Contemporary Coffee Table , even though I enjoy a types of modern to contemporary furniture.

For the last year or so my wife and I have been focused on building our modern furniture collection. Though it tends to be in burst of activity, that I go on the hunt for the next special edition to my collection. My current favorite is the Noguchi Table! Absolutely stunning!

There’s a couple of important things to know, for those thinking about adding Contemporary Furniture or Glass Contemporary Coffee Table to their home.

Most of what is considered Contemporary Design today is nothing more than the evolution of Modern Design. Did you know that 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.

Before the modernist design movement the focus was on furniture as ornament, the time put into creating a piece was usually directly related to its value and desirability. For first half of the 20th Century consumes desires shifted towards function and accessibility. 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.

Now you may ask what are some common examples of iconic modern furniture?

a) Marcel Breuer’s Wassily Chair – The Wassily Chair is an ingenious design using only lightweight tubular steel and minimal leather straps

b) Eileen Gray side table – A “non-conformist” design was made for Gray’s sister so that she could eat breakfast in bed.

c) Barcelona chair – (My wife’s current favorite) Was designed by Mies Van Der Rohe and Lilly Reich in 1929 for an international design fair in Barcelona

d) Noguchi coffee table – (My current favorite) Designed by Isamu Noguchi, consist of two identical pieces of wood and a glass top … my ideal modern glass coffee table.

As of late, the modern style as given way to contemporary design. Today contemporary furniture designers and manufacturers continue to evolve design. Constantly in-search of new materials, with which to produce unique forms, still employing simplicity and lightness of form, in opposition to intensely ornate. Most of all they are still striving to step outside of what has gone before to create entirely new visual experiences for us.

The designs that prompted this paradigm shift were produced in the middle of the 20th century, most of them well before 1960. And yet they are still regarded internationally as symbols of the modern age, the present and perhaps even the future. Modern Classic Furniture became an icon of elegance and sophistication.

For more thoughts on Modern/Contemporary furniture check out my blog Glass Contemporary Coffee Table.

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