Modern Redux

Modern Redux Redux is devoted to the pursuit, rehabilitation, and reintroduction of fine 20th Century Modern furnishings and decorative arts to a contemporary audience.

Modern Redux is devoted to the pursuit, rehabilitation, and reintroduction of fine 20th-century modern furnishings & decorative arts to a contemporary audience.

This substantial and hard to source 60s flambé glazed bowl by renowned sculptor and ceramic artist, Helmut Freidrich Sch...
10/12/2023

This substantial and hard to source 60s flambé glazed bowl by renowned sculptor and ceramic artist, Helmut Freidrich Schäffenacker of Ulm, Germany, is thick-walled and irregularly shaped with a beautiful running glaze in shades of red, orange, blue, and white with a touch of yellow on a heavy orange clay body.  It is marked in relief with its shape number '812' on the underside.

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tall, orange rectangular, vases from Übelacker Keramik (aka Ü-Keramik) that transition at the shoulders to round necks a...
10/12/2023

tall, orange rectangular, vases from Übelacker Keramik (aka Ü-Keramik) that transition at the shoulders to round necks and mouths covered with a thick and bubbly, fat-lava drip glaze. one with shades of butterscotch and gunmetal, and tbe other in white.


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A handmade table lamp designed by Aldo Londi for BITOSSI CERAMICHE of Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy, in the 1970s. The col...
10/12/2023

A handmade table lamp designed by Aldo Londi for BITOSSI CERAMICHE of Montelupo Fiorentino, Italy, in the 1970s. The columnar lamp base is made with BITOSSI's signature chamotte clay and decorated with an "argyle" sgraffito décor in shades of turquoise, light blue, and black. It was assembled by Norwood Lamps of Montreal, Canada, and has been outfitted with a 3-way socket and an in-line dimmer. We have paired it with a vintage, beige-fabric-covered shade. @

A ceramic table lamp assembled using an abstract geometric lamp base created in Italy by master potter Alvino Bagni.  Ma...
10/12/2023

A ceramic table lamp assembled using an abstract geometric lamp base created in Italy by master potter Alvino Bagni.  Made of hand turned chamotte earthenware, it has been glazed in matt black with a glossy geometric wax resist decor on top, consisting of quartered circular elements and diamond shapes in shades of blue, purple, green, and yellow.

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This quirky handmade vase was created by Erwin Spuler at the majolica factory workshop in Karlsruhe.  it is in perfect c...
10/07/2023

This quirky handmade vase was created by Erwin Spuler at the majolica factory workshop in Karlsruhe.  it is in perfect condition and is marked on the bottom.

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An extra tall conical vase designed by master ceramicist Eva Fritz-Lindner for the Majolica factory at Karlsruhe, German...
10/07/2023

An extra tall conical vase designed by master ceramicist Eva Fritz-Lindner for the Majolica factory at Karlsruhe, Germany.  The beautiful mottled blue glaze is decorated with three rings comprised of light orange hourglass-shaped forms and a single handle connecting the mouth of the vase to its shoulder.  it is fully marked on the bottom with both the Karlsruhe logo and Fritz-Lindner's own workshop sign "i3"

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A clever doorstop by Donald Drumm from the 1970s in the form of two cats. All of Drumm's sculptures are made by hand fro...
10/06/2023

A clever doorstop by Donald Drumm from the 1970s in the form of two cats. All of Drumm's sculptures are made by hand from sand-cast aluminum.

DONALD DRUMM was born in Warren, Ohio, in 1935. After studying medicine for two years at Hiram College in Hiram, Ohio, he decided to pursue a career in art. He transferred to Kent State University where he received a B.F.A. and an M.A. He subsequently worked as a designer for the industrial design firm Smith, Scherr and McDermott for two years. In 1960 Drumm opened his own studio, as a full-time practicing sculptor and designer/craftsman near the University of Akron in Akron, Ohio. In 1971, together with his wife, Lisa Drumm, he expanded the studio to incorporate a one-room gallery. Since then the enterprise has grown extensively and now embraces eight buildings, providing gallery facilities for over 500 artists and studio space for three resident artists.

In the late 1950s, Drumm pioneered the use of cast aluminum as an artistic medium. In addition, he has been a pioneer in the use of contemporary building materials, and techniques for the creation of Arts and crafts. The 1960s brought about many teaching opportunities for Don as he was artist-in-residence at Bowling Green State University and taught at Penland School of Crafts.

He continues experimenting and constantly creating to this day. Drumm has won numerous awards along the way, including Ohio Designer Crafts' “Lifetime Achievement Award”, “Outstanding Contributors of the Century”, to the Akron community by the Beacon Journal Publishing Company, first recipient of the Outstanding Visual Artist Award from the Akron Area Arts Alliance in 2000, and the first recipient of the American Institute of Architecture (AIA) “Artist and Craftsman Excellence” award.

Drumm has worked on a wide range of public, commercial, and private commissions in the USA and abroad.

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A grouping of '50s-era ovoid vases from SCHEURICH KERAMIK. The hand-painted décor recalls an abstract still life of frui...
10/06/2023

A grouping of '50s-era ovoid vases from SCHEURICH KERAMIK. The hand-painted décor recalls an abstract still life of fruit in yellow, red, and teal on bubbly gray backgrounds.

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Canadian-designed tubular torch-cut aluminum and walnut accent lamps.  Manufacturer unknown. @...
10/06/2023

Canadian-designed tubular torch-cut aluminum and walnut accent lamps.  Manufacturer unknown.

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A rare organically shaped abstract vase designed in the 1950s by one of SMF Schramberg's most noted and creative designe...
09/30/2023

A rare organically shaped abstract vase designed in the 1950s by one of SMF Schramberg's most noted and creative designers, Elfie Stadler.  The bent and dented form is certainly one of her best, and is dressed in the curdled gray and yellow glaze combination known as 'Capri.'

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09/29/2023

HORIZONTAL STRIATIONS

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RARE CLÄRE ZANGE TEA CADDY FOR KRÖSSELBACH A rare ceramic tea caddy designed in the 1950s by Cläre Zange for KRÖSSELBACH...
09/28/2023

RARE CLÄRE ZANGE TEA CADDY FOR KRÖSSELBACH

A rare ceramic tea caddy designed in the 1950s by Cläre Zange for KRÖSSELBACH.

KERAMIKWERKSTATT KRÖSSELBACH was established in 1946, in the southwest of Germany, downstream of the small town of Eberbach on the east bank of the Neckar river, by mother and daughter Carla and Gisela Schließler, on the site of what had once been the family’s summer home, in cooperation with master potter Michael Fischler. Gisela (aka Giselle, b. 1924), whose formal sculptural training at the Academy of Fine Arts in Karlsruhe was cut short in 1942 with the privations of WWII, had been experimenting with clay in a small shed on the property. When Fischler heard of a pottery wheel that Gisela had received as a gift, he applied with the family for work as a potter. (Fischler was a refugee from Silesia, one of millions of ethnic Germans who fled or were expelled from various Eastern and Central European countries during the late stages of WWII and the post-war period.) Carla arranged for a small workshop to be constructed, with an integrated apartment for the Fischler family. The raw material for the pottery was obtained from a nearby clay pit and was wet processed using a drum mill.

Apart from Michael Fischler, the workshop retained several employees skilled in handicrafts or painting in the late ‘40s. Their talents were often applied in contrasting ways. Carla Schließler was an entrepreneur, not a ceramicist, and these first artisans were given unusual latitude to realize their own ideas—as long as the output was sellable. Fischler’s ceramics were painted with engobe and transparently glazed in the Silesian manner; one employee painted Chinese/Japanese motifs on purchased dishes; another explored faience techniques for traditional floral decorations. Happily the arrival of Cläre Zange at KRÖSSELBACH in 1948 signaled a transition to a more coherent formal and decorative language.

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Modern Redux is a refurbished-vintage furniture retailer at the cross section of nostalgia and grace. Built by locals passionate about design, we’re devoted to the pursuit, rehabilitation, and reintroduction of 20th century modern furnishings and decor to a contemporary audience. An Austin original, our business was built by purveyors of fine furnishings who curate a collection unparalleled in uniqueness and unmatched in quality. At Modern Redux, we breathe new life into period pieces one day at a time.