Raymor Furniture
American
Few had their finger on the pulse of American furniture like importer and distributor Raymor. Founder Irving Richards first had his eyes opened to the world of furniture while attending the 1928 Salon d’Automne art and design fair in Paris. He joined Lightolier two years later and developed its business relationships, including with designer Russel Wright.
Wright and Richards met in 1935 and Russel Wright, Inc. was formed in 1936. Its American Modern ceramic tableware, produced under the name Wright Accessories in 1938, was a notably lucrative collaboration. Following the early success of American Modern, Richards obtained the majority share of Wright Accessories and changed its name to Raymor Mfg Division Inc. in 1941.
By 1952, the exclusivity over American Modern had ended (the line was initially produced by Wright Associates and later manufactured by Steubenville for two decades). To keep up with American markets, Raymor worked with prominent designers such as George Nelson, Ray and Charles Eames, and Hans J. Wegner.
The company’s imports expanded to Denmark, which contributed to the rise of Scandinavian modern designs in the American market. Throughout the 1950s, Richards established relationships with factories in Scandinavia, Italy and Germany, as well as with the influential tastemaker and importer Charles Stendig.
The furniture company Simmons bought Raymor in 1963 and changed its name to Raymor Richards, Morgenthau Inc. in 1969. During that time, Raymor’s Omnibus range of Scandinavian-style wall units became widely popular, along with Italian glass and pottery like Bitossi ceramics designed by Aldo Londi and Bagni ceramics by Alvino Bagni.
Shifting styles coupled with rising competition, and the departure of Richards from the company, ended Raymor. By the late 1970s, Raymor faced a wave of international factories able to produce similar products of lesser quality for a lower cost. Buyers were eager to frequently change their interior styles, limiting the need for high-end, durable furniture, which Raymor had been importing.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of vintage Raymor ceramics, lamps, decorative objects and more.
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Creator: Raymor
Dealer: Solo Modern
Raymor Bitossi Vase, Ceramic, Abstract, Brushed Metallic Gold, Platinum, Signed
By Bitossi, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Raymor Bitossi Vase, Ceramic, Abstract, Brushed Metallic Gold, Platinum, Signed. Medium to large scale cylinder vase glazed in metallic gold and platinum with a finely textured ribbe...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Raymor Travertine Vase, Signed
By Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Raymor Travertine Vase, Signed. Chunky thick walled cylinder vase with natural perforated decoration. Retains Raymor paper decal: "Made in Italy".
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
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Travertine
Bitossi Raymor Vase, Ceramic, Metallic Platinum, Silver, Chrome
By Bitossi, Raymor, Ettore Sottsass
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi Raymor vase, ceramic, metallic platinum, silver, chrome. Small scale platinum glazed vase with a rounded body, slightly elongated cylindrical neck, and flat shoulders. Not ma...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Bitossi for Raymor Lion, Ceramic, Yellow, Signed
By Bitossi, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi for Raymor Lion, Ceramic, Yellow, Signed. Chunky medium scale animal sculpture with whimsical detail and glazed in fun Pop Art yellow. Retai...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Bitossi Raymor Vase, Ceramic, Red, Blue, White, Stripes, Signed
By Bitossi, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi Raymor Vase, Ceramic, Red, Blue, White, Stripes, Signed. Small scale cylinder vase with modernist form and decorated with red, blue, and white stripes. Flared lip. The neck m...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Alvino Bagni for Raymor Vase, Ceramic, Orange, Green, Brown, Signed
By Raymor, Alvino Bagni
Located in New York, NY
Alvino Bagni for Raymor vase, ceramic, orange, green, brown, signed. Tall cylinder vase with a subtle textured sand glaze of bright orange, gree...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Raymor Bitossi White Ball Vase, Ceramic, Signed
By Bitossi, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Raymor Bitossi White Ball Vase, Ceramic, Signed. Petite with white glazed body and raw clay brown collar. Measures 2.5 in across the top and 2.75 across the base. Signed on underside...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Bitossi Raymor Vase, Ceramic, Metallic Platinum, Silver, Chrome, Signed
By Bitossi, Raymor, Ettore Sottsass
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi Raymor vase, ceramic, metallic platinum, silver, chrome, signed. Small scale platinum glazed vase with a rounded body, cylindrical neck, and flat shoulders. Signed with a pap...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Bitossi for Raymor Cambogia Vase, Ceramic, Blue, Purple, White, Stripes, Signed
By Bitossi, Raymor, Aldo Londi
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi for Raymor Cambogia (Cambodia) vase, ceramic, blue, purple, white, stripes, signed. Tall cylinder vase with banded stripes glazed in violet,...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Alvino Bagni for Raymor, Vase, Ceramic, White, Stripes, Blue, Yellow, Signed
By Raymor, Alvino Bagni
Located in New York, NY
Bagni for Raymor, vase, ceramic, white, stripes, blue, yellow, signed. Tall chunky bisque vase decorated with bands of blue turquoise, burnt orange, yellow and two shades of blue on ...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Alessio Tasca Raymor Vase, Ceramic, Green, White, Doves, Fish, Signed
By Alessio Tasca, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Alessio Tasca for Raymor vase, ceramic green white, signed. Small to medium scale chunky rectangular vase decorated with an S-pattern of fish ...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Bitossi for Raymor Box, Ceramic, Fused Glass, White, Orange, Blue, Signed
By Bitossi, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi for Raymor Box, ceramic and fused glass, white, orange and blue, signed. Small scale white glazed box with a lid decorated in an abstract pattern of...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Alessio Tasca Raymor Vase, Ceramic, Green, White, Doves, Fish, Signed
By Alessio Tasca, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Alessio Tasca for Raymor vase, ceramic, green and white, signed. Tall and chunky rectangular vase decorated with an S-pattern of fish on one s...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Alvino Bagni Raymor Vase, Spherical, White, Brown, Earth Tones, Signed
By Alvino Bagni, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Alvino Bagni Raymor vase, Spherical, White, Brown, Earth Tones, Signed. Chunky round ball vase with light and dark brown glaze over a speckled off-white glaze. Signed on the undersid...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Fantoni for Raymor Vase, Ceramic, White, Blue, Green, Signed
By Marcello Fantoni, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Fantoni for Raymor vase, ceramic, blue, green, signed. Medium scale chunky vase decorated with bands of aqua blue and moss green glaze over a chalky white bulbous form body. Signed o...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Bitossi Raymor Vase, Ceramic, White, Impressed Terracotta, Honeycomb, Signed
By Bitossi, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi for Raymor ceramic vase, white and impressed terracotta, signed. Small to medium scale cylinder vase with glazed white neck and an unglazed terracotta honeycomb patterned bod...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Bitossi for Raymor Vase, Ceramic, Gold, Matte Brown, Signed
By Bitossi, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi for Raymor vase, ceramic, gold and matte brown, signed. Medium scale bottle form vase with a flattened lip and glazed in a two-tone mat...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Bitossi for Raymor Box, Ceramic, White, Black, and Brown, Signed
By Aldo Londi, Bitossi, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi for Raymor box, ceramic white, black, and brown, signed. Small lidded box glazed in chocolate brown, white and black from Aldo Londi's Piastrelle Bi...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Bitossi Raymor Vase, Ceramic, Stripes, Red, Blue, White, Signed
By Bitossi, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi Raymor vase, ceramic, stripes, red, blue, white, signed. Small scale cylinder vase with modernist form and decorated with red, blue, and white stripes. Signed with Raymor lab...
Category
1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Bitossi Raymor Cambogia Vase, Ceramic, Stripes, Purple, White, Turquoise, Signed
By Bitossi, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi Raymor vase, ceramic, stripes, violet purple, white, turquoise, signed. Aldo Londi's medium scale "Cambogia" vase glazed in vibrant bands of turquoise, violet, light and dark...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Alvino Bagni for Raymor Vase, Ceramic, Brown, Beige, Earth Tones, Signed
By Alvino Bagni, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Alvino Bagni for Raymor vase, ceramic, brown, beige, earth tones, signed. Chunky medium scale organic gourd form vase with a pinched neck, sloped shoulders, and footed base. Signed on the underside with a Raymor label which reads: 4437 BAG.
Alvino Bagni was born in Lastra a Signa, Italy, in 1919, and from a young age he began to take an interest in ceramics, which was an important industry at the time in the area around Signa, Lastra a Signa and Montelupo (Florence). Thanks to the teachings of an elderly artist, Torello Santini, he got a job in the workshop of Arnaldo Pugi’s ceramics factory in Ponte a Signa. After the Second World War, Pugi gave Bagni the financial support to help him open his own workshop. And with 3,500 plates bearing the slogan “I like Ike” (produced for the electoral campaign of Dwight D. Eisenhower, who became 34th US president in 1953) the story of Ceramiche Bagni began. Alvino took several family members with him, first and foremost his wife Gina, who accompanied him throughout his career. The fifties and sixties were fundamentally important for the Bagni company, which succeeded in establishing privileged relations with a number of important names in American design and business, including Raymor (N.Y.) and Rosenthal, for whom he created extremely modern items for that time. In 1970 the company moved to a larger, more modern factory, where it was able to take business up a gear. Here Alvino surrounded himself with highly-skilled collaborators and artists, such as E. Borgini, M. Mannori, R. Buti, M. Santonocito, and many others, with whom he achieved a perfect balance between material, technique and aesthetics. By 1980 the factory had as many as 100 employees, and was renowned for its high-quality artistic production, elegant objects and its use of new and experimental techniques. As the working world changed, becoming increasingly globalized and open to new competition, the company found itself in difficulty. Tied as it was to its “artisanal” approach, it struggled to withstand the excessive drop in prices… despite all his efforts to save his employees and his factory, in 1990 it closed for good. However, in ’93 he was back in the game with the new venture Nuove Forme...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Raymor Pinecone Vase, Ceramic, Brown and Turquoise
By Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Raymor pinecone vase, ceramic, brown. Small scale tapered vase with a dark chocolate organic pinecone pattern. Imported from Italy by Raymor. The interio...
Category
1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Alvino Bagni Vase for Raymor, Ceramic Stripes, Blue, Yellow, White, Signed
By Alvino Bagni, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Alvino Bagni vase for Raymor, ceramic stripes, blue, yellow, white, signed. Chunky medium scale vase. Upper half of the vase has bands of pastel colors: light sky blue, burnt orange,...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Bitossi Number 5 Box, Ceramic, Red, White, Signed
By Bitossi, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi number five box, ceramic, red and white, signed. A rare and hard to find number series box by Bitossi. Imported to the United States by Raymor of New York. Signed with a Raym...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Raymor Vases, Ceramic, Sgraffito, Gold, Silver, Bronze, Signed
By Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Raymor vases, ceramic, sgraffito, gold, silver, gunmetal, signed. A pair of medium scale bottle form vases with incised geometric patterns and glazed in a burnished gold, dark silver...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Bitossi for Raymor Vase, Ceramic, White and Brown, Signed
By Bitossi, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi for Raymor vase, ceramic, white and brown, signed. Tall cylinder vase with white glazed body and coarse matte brown clay collar. Signed...
Category
1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Raymor Vase, Ceramic, Sgraffito, Green, Gold, Chrome, Signed
By Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Raymor vase, ceramic, sgraffito, green, gold, chrome, signed. Medium scale bottle form vase decorated with an incised green pattern over gold and dark chrome glazed body. Signed on u...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Raymor Table Lamp, Ceramic, Brown, Pinecone, Signed
By Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Raymor ceramic table lamp, brown pinecone, signed. Medium scale tapered lamp with pinecone relief decoration. Signed on the underside of base: RM, Italy. ...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Alvino Bagni Raymor Ashtray Bowl, Ceramic, Abstract, Blue, Green, Brown, Signed
By Alvino Bagni, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Alvino Bagni for Raymor bowl, ceramic, blue, green, abstract spirals, signed. Medium scale ceramic bowl or ashtray decorated with sky blue, light brown, dark brown, and light green s...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Bitossi Raymor Box, Ceramic, Metallic Chrome Silver, Black, Iridescent, Signed
By Bitossi, Raymor
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi for Raymor box, ceramic, metallic chrome silver and black, signed. Small scale lidded box with a top glazed in metallic chrome silver and black. The...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Raymor Furniture
Materials
Ceramic
Raymor furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Raymor furniture are available for sale on 1stDibs. These distinctive items are frequently made of ceramic and are designed with extraordinary care. There are many options to choose from in our collection of Raymor furniture, although brown editions of this piece are particularly popular. Many of the original furniture by Raymor were created in the mid-century modern style in europe during the 20th century. If you’re looking for additional options, many customers also consider furniture by Murano Glass Sommerso, Alfredo Barbini, and Flavio Poli. Prices for Raymor furniture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — on 1stDibs, these items begin at $150 and can go as high as $22,297, while a piece like these, on average, fetch $1,500.