Ace-Hi "Prelude Series" Rectangular Coffee Table
By ACE-HI, Prelude
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Produced by Ace-Hi of Gardena, California, the Prelude line of furniture features solid walnut construction and simplified (but never reductive) purity of form.
Walnut
Mid Century Modern Solid Walnut Stereo Console Cabinet by Ace-Hi Furniture
By ACE-HI
Located in San Jose, CA
Vintage record console credenza manufactured by Ace-Hi Furniture of California, circa 1960's. This unique media cabinet is made of solid planked walnut featuring sliding doors accent...
Walnut
Expertly Restored -California Modern Sculpted Floating-Top Side Tables / Ace-Hi
By ACE-HI
Located in Los Angeles, CA
___________________________________ Transforming a piece of Mid-Century Modern furniture is like bringing history back to life, and we take this journey with passion and precision. W...
Walnut, Wood
Expertly Restored - Mid-Century Modern Walnut Night Stands by Ace-Hi
By ACE-HI
Located in Los Angeles, CA
________________________ Transforming a piece of Mid-Century Modern furniture is like bringing history back to life, and we take this journey with passion and precision. With over 17...
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Pair of Solid Walnut Danish modern Ace side tables in the style of Peter Hivdit
By ACE-HI
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Pair of Solid Walnut Danish modern side tables in the style of Peter Hivdit Produced by Ace-Hi of Gardena, Calif., the Prelude line of furniture featured solid walnut construction...
Walnut
ACE-HI Sculptural Walnut Coffee Table
By ACE-HI
Located in Phoenix, AZ
This early 1960's walnut coffee table by ACE-HI features 3 circle top surfaces. Newly finished.
Walnut
Midcentury Solid Walnut ACE-HI Desk
By ACE-HI
Located in San Jose, CA
Mid-Century Modern prelude desk for ACE-HI in solid planked walnut. This desk offers plenty of storage space complete with seven spacious drawers accessorized with pewter handles.
Walnut
Mid Century Solid Walnut ACE-HI Dresser
By ACE-HI
Located in San Jose, CA
Mid-century prelude dresser for ACE-HI Furniture in solid planked walnut. This piece features fourteen storage drawers accessorized with pewter pulls.
Walnut
Mid-Century Solid Walnut Ace-Hi Desk
By ACE-HI
Located in San Jose, CA
Mid-Century Modern ACE-HI desk in solid walnut. This desk offers plenty of storage space complete with seven spacious drawers accessorized with pewter handles.
Walnut
Ace-Hi "Prelude Series" Square Coffee Table
By ACE-HI
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Produced by Ace-Hi of Gardena, Calif., the Prelude line of furniture featured solid walnut construction and simplified (but never reductive) purity of form.
Walnut
Mid-Century Solid Walnut Ace-Hi Desk
By ACE-HI
Located in San Jose, CA
Mid-Century Ace-Hi executive desk in solid walnut. This desk offers plenty of storage space complete with five spacious drawers accessorized with pewter handles.
Walnut
Mid Century Ace-Hi Solid Walnut Dresser Chest
By ACE-HI
Located in San Jose, CA
Mid-century prelude dresser chest for Ace-Hi Furniture in solid planked walnut. This piece includes five spacious drawers with the original pewter pulls.
Walnut
Solid Walnut Coffee Table by Ace Hi
By ACE-HI
Located in San Diego, CA
There are very few pieces of furniture made in solid wood for a couple of reasons but Ace-Hi is one of the few makers of solid wood construction.
Walnut
Mid-Century Solid Walnut Ace-Hi Desk
By ACE-HI
Located in San Jose, CA
Mid-Century executive Ace-Hi desk in solid walnut. This desk offers plenty of storage space complete with five spacious drawers accessorized with pewter handles.
Walnut
Mid Century Solid Walnut Dresser by Ace-Hi
By ACE-HI
Located in San Jose, CA
Vintage prelude dresser for ACE-HI Furniture in solid planked walnut. This piece offers plenty of storage and includes nine storage drawers accessorized with pewter pulls.
Walnut
Ace-Hi Walnut Multi-tiered 1960's Coffee Table
By ACE-HI
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Streamlined coffee table in rich solid walnut by ACE-HI featuring raised left and right sides and a sunken center.
Walnut
Mid-Century Modern Solid Walnut Dresser by ACE-HI
By ACE-HI
Located in San Jose, CA
Vintage prelude dresser for ACE-HI Furniture in solid planked walnut. This piece offers plenty of storage and includes seven drawers accessorized with pewter pulls.
Walnut
Ace-Hi "Prelude Series" Round Coffee Table
By ACE-HI
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Produced by Ace-Hi of Gardena, California, the Prelude line of furniture features solid walnut construction and simplified (but never reductive) purity of form.
Walnut
1960s Mid Century Walnut Desk by Ace- Hi
By ACE-HI
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Mid-century walnut desk designed and manufactured by ACE-Hi in the United States circa 1960s. This beautiful writing desk features a walnut frame with five drawers giving you plenty ...
Walnut
Vintage Pair of Solid Walnut Nightstands by Ace-Hi
By ACE-HI
Located in San Jose, CA
Mid-Century Modern pair of nightstands or bedside tables by ACE-HI Furniture, California. This set is made of solid planked walnut and includes three storage drawers with pewter hand...
Walnut
Vintage Pair of Solid Walnut Nightstands by Ace-Hi
By ACE-HI
Located in San Jose, CA
Mid-Century Modern pair of nightstands or bedside tables by ACE-HI Furniture, California. This set is made of solid planked walnut and includes three storage drawers with pewter hand...
Walnut
Mid-Century Modern Sculpted Floating-Top Coffee Table by ACE-HI
By ACE-HI
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mid-Century Modern sculpted floating-top coffee table by ACE-HI.
Wood, Walnut
Midcentury Ace-Hi Walnut Dresser
Located in San Jose, CA
Midcentury Ace-Hi Dresser in solid planked walnut. This piece features eleven spacious drawers with pewter pulls.
Pewter
California Modernist Coffee Table by ACE-HI, 1960s
By ACE-HI
Located in Coronado, CA
A stunning, California modernist coffee table manufactured by ACE-HI of Gardena, CA as part of their "Prelude" line in the 1960s.
Walnut
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H 16 in W 58 in D 20 in
Newly Refinished - Mid-Century Californian Modern Walnut Coffee Table by Ace-Hi
By ACE-HI
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition: Expertly Refinished With over 15 years of experience, our workshop has followed a careful process of restoration, showcasing our passion and creativity for vintage desig...
Walnut
Pair of "Prelude" Side Tables by Ace Hi
By ACE-HI
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Produced by Ace-Hi of Gardena, California, c.1960s, the Prelude line of furniture featured solid walnut construction and simplified purity of form.
Walnut
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H 21.5 in W 28.25 in D 17.25 in
Newly Refinished - Mid-Century Modern Two-Tier Walnut Side Table by Ace-Hi
By ACE-HI
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Condition: Expertly Refinished With over 15 years of experience, our workshop has followed a careful process of restoration, showcasing our passion and creativity for vintage desig...
Walnut
Newly Refinished - Mid-Century Modern Walnut Side Table by Ace-Hi
By ACE-HI
Located in Los Angeles, CA
:) Crafted in the 1960s by Ace-Hi Furniture, this Mid-Century Modern side table showcases the elegance and warmth of solid walnut.
Walnut
Pair of Solid Walnut Prelude Side Tables by Ace Hi
By ACE-HI
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful pair of solid walnut (not veneer) side tables by Ace-Hi. These are dated 1962 under each table. They feature a beautiful tapered edge and a warm walnut.
Walnut
Newly Refinished - Mid-Century Modern Walnut Side Table by Ace-Hi
By ACE-HI
Located in Los Angeles, CA
:) This Mid-Century Californian Modern walnut coffee table by Ace-Hi Furniture, c.1960’s, showcases the clean lines and timeless elegance that defined the era.
Walnut
Mid Century Floating Top Coffee Table by Ace-Hi
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Designer: Ace-Hi Furniture Manufacturer: Ace-Hi Furniture Period/Style: Mid Century Modern Country: United States Date: 1960’s Dimensions: 25″H x 59.25″W x 20.25″D Materials:...
Walnut
Mid Century Modern Walnut Lowboy Dresser by ACE-HI, c1960s
By ACE-HI
Located in Chino Hills, CA
Discover the epitome of mid-century design with this exquisite vintage walnut dresser by Ace-Hi, crafted in the vibrant 1960s. This dresser represents a true testament to the era's d...
Metal
Mid Century Modern Walnut Lowboy Dresser by ACE-HI, c1960s
By ACE-HI
Located in Chino Hills, CA
Discover the epitome of mid-century design with this exquisite vintage walnut dresser by Ace-Hi, crafted in the vibrant 1960s. This dresser represents a true testament to the era's d...
Metal
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
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
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 celebrated 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.
Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. 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.