Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
MID-CENTURY MODERN STYLE
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Emerged during the mid-20th century
- Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
- A heyday of innovation in postwar America
- Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
- A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
- Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
- Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
- Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
- Promotion of functionality
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
- Charles and Ray Eames
- Eero Saarinen
- Milo Baughman
- Florence Knoll
- Harry Bertoia
- Isamu Noguchi
- George Nelson
- Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
- Eames lounge chair
- Nelson daybed
- Florence Knoll sofa
- Egg chair
- Womb chair
- Noguchi coffee table
- Barcelona chair
VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by legendary manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
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Style: Mid-Century Modern
Cerutti Italy Tea, Coffee Pot, Carafe, Vessel INOX 18/10 Stainless Steel
By Cerutti
Located in Miami, FL
Original Cerutti Italy Mid-Century Modern Inox 18/10 stainless steel Serving Coffee or Tea Pot, Carafe, Vessel.
Marked underneath.
Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Stainless Steel
Christofle Tea and Coffee Service with Tray
By Christofle, Gallia
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Fine five piece silver plate set with coffee pot, tea pot, lidded sugar bowl and creamer all octagonal shapes with beaded details. The sugar bowl with twin handles with palmette moti...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Vintage Tea Set in White Porcelain & Teak by Henning Koppel for Bing & Grondahl
Located in Esbjerg, DK
Important design by Henning Koppel exhibited at the British Museum and Museum of Modern Art in New York. This set consist of a milk/sugar jug/bowl and the Koppel Characteristic teapo...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain, Teak
French Majolica Shell & Crab Teapot Circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica shell & crab teapot circa 1950.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Modernist Coffee / Tea Set by Lino Sabattini, Christofle
Located in Buffalo, NY
Silver-plated metal coffee and tea set consisting of four elements (coffee pot, teapot, creamer, ) and a tray. Designed by Lino Sabattini cor Christofle ....Varnished caned handles. ...
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Bone China Coffee Set From Kaiser Set For Six Person, Set of 33
By Kaiser
Located in Bastogne, BE
A wonderful delicate exclusive service from famous manufacturer Kaiser, Alka Collection, Germany.
Delightful thin-walled bone relief porcelain.
The sophi...
Category
1960s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
1960s Set of Six Fornasetti Tea Cups and Saucers White and Gold Ceramic Signed
By Fornasetti
Located in London, GB
A good vintage Set of six Fornasetti porcelain tea/coffee cups and saucers with geometrical gold decor. Each cup and saucer bearing the signature and logo. Made in Italy ca.1960s
...
Category
1960s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Mid-Century Ceramic Teapot Set by Alfa Ceramiche, Italy, 1950s
Located in Catania, CT
Good vintage condition with normal trace of age and use for this teapot set made from ceramic and produced in Italy during the 50s by Alfa Ceramiche.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Fratelli Brambilla Coffee Set in White Ceramic, Italy, 1965
Located in Milan, IT
Fratelli Brambilla coffee set in white ceramic, Italy 1965
Impressed stamp.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Complete Tea Set 17 Pieces 1960s
By Limoges
Located in Den Haag, NL
Love this elegant vintage tea or coffee set. In a lovely light blue color.
Comes with a transfer landscape decoration. I think England 1960s.
Nice high sleek teapot. Remarkably thi...
Category
1960s English Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Traditional Antique French Porcelain Coffee Set of 14 Pieces, circa 1940
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Antique tea set consistent of 14 pieces including coffee plates, coffee cups and pots.
Hand painted in the traditional French style.
Made b...
Category
1940s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
R. Martinez Mexican Brass & Copper Tea Service Set
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A four piece mid-century brass tea service set by R. Martinez, c.1950s Mexico. The set includes a lidded copper teapot with creamer and sugar pot both with curved handles. All the pi...
Category
1950s Mexican Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Brass, Copper
1964 Jaroslav Jezek Exlusive Porcelain Tea Set "Nefertiti", Czechoslovakia
Located in Praha, CZ
- Very good condition with minor signs of use
- 6 cups with plate and 3 pots
- Suggar Pot: 10cmx10cm
- Cup: 6,5cm 8,5cm 6,5cm
- Plate: 1,5cm 14cmx14cm
- Cream pot: 11,5cmx11,...
Category
1960s Czech Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Tea Service Guido Andlovitz Italy 1940s with Venice and Gondolas Laveno
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Saucers diameter 14.5 cm
Cups diameter 12 cm, height 4 cm
Teapot height 20 cm, width 25 cm, depth 10 cm
Sugar bowl 13 cm high, 14 cm wide, 7 cm deep.
Spout 11 cm high, 14 cm wide...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Set of Six Cups by Chodzież, Poland
Located in Chorzów, PL
A set of six cups by Chodziez, Poland.
Category
1960s Polish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Italian Glazed Ceramic Coffee Set from Flora, 1960s
Located in Palermo, PA
Italian glazed ceramic coffee set from Flora, 1960s.
Dimensions
Tray: H=3 cm; W=47 cm; D=27 cm.
Cup: H=5 cm; D=7 cm.
Saucer: H=2 cm; D=11 cm.
S...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Tea and Coffee Set "Elka" by Jezek for Brezova-Pirkenhammer, 1960s
By Pirkenhammer
Located in Praha, CZ
Elka coffee and tea set designed by Jaroslav Jezek in 1957
Awarded by Grand Prix at the Expo 1958
Manufactured and marked by Brezova - Pirkenhammer
6 tea cups with plates
6 coffee cu...
Category
1960s Czech Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Pottery Coffee Set with Matching Cups by Martz
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
An elegant coffee or tea set by Marshall Studios/Martz consisting of a large coffee pot with leather holder and four matching cups. Beautiful dark brown/almost black glaze, handmade....
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
White Ceramic Tea Set by David Louveau La Borne Stoneware Handmade Pottery
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
David Louveau
Original and unique handmade ceramic tea pot
White stoneware ceramic color
Wood firing ceramic effects
Original perfect condition
Measures: Height 13 cm ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary French Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Tea Set in Orange Ceramic by Liisi Beckmann for Gabbianelli, Italy, 1960s
Located in Rome, IT
Stackable tea set in glazed orange ceramic, designed in the 1960s by the Finnish designer Liisi Beckmann for Gabbianelli.
Consisting of: 2 teapots, 3 tea cups and a sugar bowl.
...
Category
1960s European Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
"Studio Line" White Porcelain Tea Pot by Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal
Located in San Diego, CA
Mid-Century Modern "Studio Line" white porcelain tea pot by Tapio Wirkkala for Rosenthal, circa 1970s. The piece is in very good vintage condi...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Midcentury Green Coffee / Tea Service for 6
Located in Chorzów, PL
Midcentury green coffee / tea service for 6
Very good condition.
Category
Mid-20th Century Polish Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Pair of Tea Pots in the Style of William Spratling
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1960, we offer this fantastic pair of tea pots in the style of William Spratling made in steel and silver plated and exotic ebony wood was used as the handle and accents over t...
Category
1960s Mexican Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Silver Plate
Modernist Sterling Hand Hammered Silver Coffee Service
Located in Montreal, QC
MODERNIST STERLING SILVER COFFEE SERVICE
Modernist sterling hand hammered silver coffee service and tray, the walnut tray and handles inlaid wit...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Rosenthal Tea Service for 6 People
By Rosenthal
Located in Chorzów, PL
Ecri porcelain tea and coffee set by Rosenthal for 6 people from the 1940s, decorated with gold.
Manufacture: Philipp Rosenthal & Co. AG (1939-1965)
Location: Germany / Bavaria...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Large Mexican Modern Sterling Silver Coffee Tea Serving Set William Spratling
Located in Atlanta, GA
A large six-piece sterling silver service for coffee and tea that consists of a gallery tray, a coffee pot, a tea pot, a hot milk or chocolate pot, a sugar and a milk jar. This stunn...
Category
1960s Mexican Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Pair of Vintage Earthenware Tea /Coffee Cups with Floral Motifs by Zaccagnini
Located in Bresso, Lombardy
Made in Italy, 1940s.
This pair of cups are made in earthenware, which features lacquered hand-painted floral motifs.
They are vintage therefore they might show slight traces of use,...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Earthenware
Fine Porcelain Tea and Coffee Set
Located in Antwerp, BE
The beautiful set comprised of a tea or coffee pot, a cream jug and a sugar bowl with lid and twelve cups and saucers, each piece with gilded borders; Portuguese exquisite Porcelain,...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
1960s Mid-Century Modern Green and Gold Ceramic Tea Pot by Pucci Umbertide
Located in Aci Castello, IT
An elegant mid-century modern light green and gold ceramic tea pot designed and manufactured by Pucci in the Sixties. It's signed on the bottom....
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Majolica Shell Creamer & Sugar Bowl Set- 2 Pieces Circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica shell creamer & sugar bowl Circa 1950.
Sugar bowl with lid / 4" by 4" , H / 3 inches.
Creamer / 4.3" by 3.5" , H / 3 inches.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Royal Copenhagen Denmark Porcelain Coffee / Tea Service Set
Located in Chicago, IL
A fine vintage Danish porcelain set. Pieces Signed on underside. Service of eight with small cake plates. All with artistic decoration to the porcelain. Porcelain is a ivory color (h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Tułowice Midcentury Coffee / Tea Service
Located in Chorzów, PL
Tulowice coffee / tea service.
Very good condition.
The set includes: a jug, sugar bowl, milk jug, 6 cups, 6 saucers.
Category
Mid-20th Century Polish Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Set of 4 Majolica Shells Cups & Saucers Circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
Set of 4 Majolica Shell cups & saucers Circa 1950.
All different colors inside.
Saucers / 5.2 by 4.2 inches
Cups / 4.5 by 3 inches.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Ochre Porcelain Tableware by Roger Mourre for Dieulefit, France, 1950's
By Dieulefit
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Dieulefit tea set
1 tea pot
10 cups
12 plate
1 sugar pot
Minor traces of use.
Marked at the bottom.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Early Jens Quistgaard for Dansk Flamestone Coffee / Tea Set
By Dansk, Jens Quistgaard
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Denmark 'Flamestone' coffee or tea pot, creamer, and sugar by Jens H. Quistgaard for Dansk designs, circa 1958-1964.
Features the Flamestone signature slate, almost brown glazed-ear...
Category
1950s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Earthenware, Porcelain
Pair of Rustic Traditional Ceramic Tea Cups, circa 1950
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Immerse yourself in the warmth and charm of these rustic traditional ceramic tea cups, dating back to the 1950s. Skillfully crafted in France, these de...
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Vallauris Coffee Set Yellow Brown Ceramic, Mid-Century Modern, France, 1950
By Vallauris
Located in Paris, FR
Authentic French midcentury creative full coffee set containing 9 pieces:
Measures: 6 cups diameter 8-8.5cm H 7 cm
6 saucers 11 cm x 11.5 cm
Jar H 26 cm x L 24 cm x 9.5 cm
Milk j...
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage 20th Century White and Green Coffee or Tea Set Signed circa 1950
By Mado Jolain
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
In the style of Mado Jolain
Original vintage tea or coffee set
2 pitchers and 2 cups or bowls
Original perfect condition
Signed under the base
Measures: Pitcher : hei...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Mid-Century Modern Double Ceramic Teapot by Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand
Located in New York, NY
This refined Mid-Century Modern Scandinavian double teapot was realized by the esteemed Gunnar Nylund for Rorstrand in Sweden circa 1960. It featur...
Category
1960s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Vallauris Blue Ceramic Coffee Set, Mid-Century Modern, France, 1950
By Vallauris
Located in Paris, FR
Creative French Mid-Century Modern coffee set signed by Vallauris presenting 7 pieces in a very good general condition.
Measures: 4 cups diameter 8-8.5cm height 7 cm
4 saucers 11 c...
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Lino Sabattini for Christofle, Modernist Teapot, 1960s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Lino Sabattini (1925-2016) for Christofle. Modernist teapot in silver plated metal, circa 1960.
In very good condition.
Stamped: Christofle Italy / ...
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Marius Giuge Fine Gilded Ceramic Tea and Coffee Set, Vallauris, circa 1960s
By Marius Giuge
Located in Antwerp, BE
The beautiful set comprised of a tea or coffee pot, a cream jug and a sugar bowl with lid and thirteen cups and saucers, each piece with gilded borders.
Exquisite ceramic, a make pr...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Michael Lambert Modernist Tea Set
Located in New York, NY
1980's modernist tea set by California ceramist Michael Lambert, in vintage original condition with minor wear and patina due to age and use.
Sugar holder...
Category
1980s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Clay
Mid-Century Studio Pottery Tea Pot with Blue Lava Glaze
Located in San Diego, CA
Mid-century studio pottery tea pot with blue lava glaze, circa 1970s. The pot is in very good vintage with no chips or cracks and measures 11" W x 8.7...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Pottery
Coffee Tea Service Flash One Dorothy Hafner Rosenthal Studio-Line Germany, 1980s
By Rosenthal
Located in Berlin, DE
Luxurious porcelain dinnerware set, flash one, by Dorothy Hafner for Rosenthal Studio-Line,
Germany, 1980s.
12x coffee or tea cups.
12x ...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Tommi Parzinger for Dorlyn Silversmiths Brass Coffee / Tea Set
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Beautiful vintage Tommi Parzinger coffee / tea set in its original brass finish circa 1950s. The set includes a large coffee pot with curved wood handle, stand with etched "X" details, burner with original wick to keep the pot warm...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Brass
Midcentury Modern German Blue & White Porcelain Coffee or Tea Set by Rosenthal
By Rosenthal
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful German porcelain coffee or tea cup set, with creamer and sugar, in white with touches of gold and blue. Set includes six cups, one creamer and one sugar bowl with lid, al...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Porcelain
Tommi Parzinger for Dorlyn Silversmiths Tea Service in Polished Brass & Walnut
Located in New York, NY
This gorgeous coffee or tea service set was designed by Tommi Parzinger, among the most celebrated Mid-Century Modernist designers, for Dorlyn Silversmiths circa 1960. The set includes one tea pot, a creamer, and a sugar bowl with lid. The service was created in lustrous brass of a particularly warm hue and features burnished walnut...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Brass
Sterling Tea Service Designed by Gio Ponti for Reed and Barton
Located in Lambertville, NJ
A sterling tea service with sterling tray designed by Gio Ponti for Reed and Barton, pattern 440 "Diamond" the tray is #1574. The set consists of ...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Sterling Silver
Brown Wood-Firing Ceramic Tea Pot by Jo Miquel 1993 mid-century French Design
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
Josette Miquel
Elegant brown stoneware ceramic tea pot
Original perfect conditions
Signed under the base
Brown woodfiring ceramic effects an...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Italian Mid-century Travel Espresso Set Coffee Maker
Located in Weesp, NL
Beautiful and complete mid-century Italian Lucciola Espresso travel set with Espresso machine which works both on 12 and 220 volts, a detachable espre...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Metal
White and Brown Design Porcelain Tea Pot by Laroussinie for Virebent, 1970
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
Virebent - designed by Jacques Laroussinie,
circa 1970
Original white and brown 20th century porcelain ceramic tea pot.
Original perfect condition
Signed under the base
...
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage John Prip for Reed & Barton "Dimension" Tea and Coffee Set Service
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Vintage John Prip for Reed & Barton "Dimension" modernist tea and coffee silver plated service set.
Designed by John Prip for Reed & Barton in 1960; "Dimension" pattern coffee and te...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Silver, Silver Plate
Paul McCobb for Contempi, Japan 38 Piece Ceramic Coffee Set in Orange and White
By Paul McCobb
Located in Mexico, DF
Beautiful and rare set of the coffee pitcher, sugar bowl with lid, and twelve sets of the round dish with coffee cup plus twelve dessert round plates in ceramic, designed by Paul McCobb for the "Contempi" line, Jackson Ceramics, Japan late 1950s. The set is orange and white, a very striking retro combination of colors. All 38 pieces are in very good shape. Paul McCobb was born in 1917 in Medford, Massachusetts. He moved from Boston to New York to pursue his dream of becoming a designer. When it came to designing he was completely self-taught with a very minimalistic approach to object creation influenced by Scandinavian design as well as the “Shaker” style in furniture making. Perspective and scale became the trademark for McCobb's designs, his tables, shelves, lamps, and other daily used articles...
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Antonia Campi Tea Service for Six in Porcelain and Gold by Laveno 1950s
Located in Montecatini Terme, IT
Rare ceramic tea service for six in a very elegant light blue shade with decoration refined in pure gold, it was designed by Antonia Campi and manufactured by Laveno Ceramica in Verbano during the early 1950s.
This set is composed of six (6) teacups, six (6) tea saucers, one (1) sugar bowl, one (1) teapot, and one (1) milk jug.
Measurements:
-Six cups 6 x 8 x 5.5 cm (each)
-Sugar bowl 9 x 12 x 7 cm
-Teapot 19 x 16, 5 x 9.5 cm
-Milk Jug 11 x 12 x 7 cm.
In 1856 Carlo Caspani, Alessandro Carnelli, and Severino Revelli, three employees of the Richard Ginori ceramics factory in Milano, set up the Società Ceramica C.C.R. making use of a disused building that had been a glass factory near the lakeshore. Production mainly consisted in fine earthenware and fire bricks.
One of the key choices for the success of this initiative was an industrial-scale production of low-cost earthenware for domestic use.
The manufacture of Laveno was gaining reputation; so that in 1869 part of its activity had to be moved to a new building called “Lago”.
In 1883 it adopted a new denomination, Società Ceramica Italiana (with an S.C.I. trademark) that was to become famous.
During this period, S.C.I. was led by bright managers: Tommaso Bossi and his successor Luciano Scotti, a graduate in engineering who led the company all the time from 1895 to 1956, raising it to its top level of capacity and production.
In 1925 the Mulini plant was built in the Boesio area, where the blends and ''bodies'' were prepared. The Magazzini Generali (a warehouse), were also built and directly connected to the railway network. All the factory sites were interconnected by a “Decauville” railway for transporting materials. Also in 1925 the Verbano plant was built, following an agreement with the German Rosenthal company, for producing porcelain tableware and, later, ceramic insulators.
The drive for innovation in production technologies, that took place during the Twenties, was accompanied by an equally intense artistic development. During the twenty's the architect Piero Portaluppi started collaborating with S.C.I. and thanks to Luciano Scotti’s foresight, young Guido Andlovitz, who had entered the company in 1923, was appointed art director in 1925, who introduced a renewal in the style of shapes and decorations, so that towards the end of the 1920s Ceramica di Laveno competed with Richard-Ginori, for the leading position in the ceramic art of Italy.
Near the end of the 1930s, collaboration was started with Angelo Biancini, who created a new product line of artisan taste.
In the late Forties, the young Antonia Campi joins the company as a decoration worker. Immediately, Guido Andlovitz notes her ability and potential qualities, and moves her into the artistic department. Starting with her 1948 first tiny vase...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Gold
Mid-Century Modern Ceramic Coffee Pot and Mug Set
Located in Redding, CT
Mid-Century Modern ceramic coffee or tea pot and mug set. Includes one large coffee or teapot and 10 matching mugs. With its whimsical Mid-Century Modern graphics of a winking eye sun lion...
Category
1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Serving Set "Cylinda Line" by Arne Jacobsen
By Arne Jacobsen, Stelton
Located in Vienna, AT
The epochal “Cylinda Line” serving set by Danish designer Arne Jacobsen, styled for Stelton in 1967. The set is entirely manufactured of stainless steel, the handles of the jugs are of black Bakelite. Our ensemble consists of mocha jug...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Stainless Steel
Espresso or Tea Set by Lagardo Tackett
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
The Lagardo Tackett tea or espresso set of cups and saucers is a stunning blend of artistry and functionality. Crafted with meticulous attention to detail, these sets are a testament...
Category
1950s Japanese Vintage Mid-Century Modern Tea Sets
Materials
Ceramic
Mid-century Modern tea sets for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Mid-Century Modern tea sets for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage tea sets created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, folk art, decorative objects and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with ceramic, metal and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Mid-Century Modern tea sets made in a specific country, there are Europe, France, and North America pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original tea sets, popular names associated with this style include Rosenthal, Tommi Parzinger, Gio Ponti, and Vallauris. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for tea sets differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $56 and tops out at $25,000 while the average work can sell for $895.
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