1960s Brutalist Dark Bronze Candle Wall Sconces - a Pair

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Statement pair of bronze candle sconces! Stylized Greek key back, blade shaped bottom, 3 long, curved arms on each. Perfect … more Statement pair of bronze candle sconces! Stylized Greek key back, blade shaped bottom, 3 long, curved arms on each. Perfect for your living room or dining room.
Very good condition. Dealer MJS

*Brutalism, also known as Brutalist architecture, is a style that emerged in the 1950s and grew out of the early-20th century modernist movement. Brutalist buildings are characterized by their massive, monolithic and ‘blocky’ appearance with a rigid geometric style and large-scale use of poured concrete. The movement began to decline in the 1970s, having been much criticized for being unwelcoming and inhuman. The term ‘Brutalism’ was coined by the British architects Alison and Peter Smithson, and popularized by the architectural historian Reyner Banham in 1954. It derives from ‘Béton brut’ (raw concrete) and was first associated in architecture with Le Corbusier, who designed the Cite Radieuse in Marseilles in the late-1940s. Brutalism became a popular style throughout the 1960s as the austerity of the 1950s gave way to dynamism and self-confidence. Brutalism became synonymous with the socially progressive housing solutions that architects and town planners promoted as modern ‘streets in the sky’. With an ethos of ‘social utopianism’, together with the influence of constructivist architecture, it became increasingly widespread across European communist countries such as the Soviet Union, Bulgaria, Yugoslavia, and Czechoslovakia. less