Japanese Bench
By AFM
Located in Highland, IN
This striking bench has a combination of wood slats and woven jute seats. Manufactured by AFM
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Benches
Materials
Jute, Wood
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1950s Japanese Modernist Slat Bench with Rope Seats by AFM
By George Nakashima
Located in San Diego, CA
Japanese walnut bench with slats and woven jute seats. Made by AFM Furniture in Japan. It retains
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Vintage 1950s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Benches
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Afm Japanese Modernist Slat Bench with Woven Seats
By AFM
Located in San Antonio, TX
Beautiful minimalist AFM Quality Furniture Japanese modernist slat bench with a rush seat is made
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Furniture
Materials
Rush, Walnut
3-Seat Afm Japanese Modernist Slat Bench with Woven Seats
By AFM
Located in San Antonio, TX
Beautiful minimalist AFM Quality Furniture Japanese modernist 3-seat slat bench with a rush seat is
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Furniture
Materials
Rush, Walnut
Mid-Century Bench by AFM Furniture, Japan
By AFM
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Mid-Century bench by AFM furniture, Japan.
Category
Vintage 1950s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Benches
Materials
Cane, Wood
Vintage Japanese Modern Slat Coffee Table, circa 1960s
By AFM
Located in Oakland, CA
Stunning Mid-Century Modernist slat coffee table manufactured by AFM circa 1960s, Japan. Clean
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Oak
Teak coffee table by AFM Quality Furniture, 1960s Japan
Located in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District
This Japanese teak coffee table, crafted by AFM Quality Furniture in the 1960s, exemplifies the
Category
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Materials
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Hans Wegner Style Folding Rope Chair
By AFM, Hans J. Wegner
Located in Redding, CT
Hans Wegner style folding rope chair.
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Rope, Wood
AFM Japanese Modernist Slat Bench with Rush Seat
By AFM
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This Modernist bench was manufactured by AFM Quality Furniture in Japan. The slatted seat is
Category
Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Benches
Materials
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Vintage Chair by AFM Quality Frinture, Japan
By Hans J. Wegner
Located in Sammu-shi, Chiba
This is a vintage chair manufactured in Japan in the 1960s and 70s. "AFM Quality Frinture" is a
Category
Vintage 1960s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Materials
Beech
1950s Japanese Bench with Rope Seats
By George Nakashima
Located in San Diego, CA
1950s wood bench with rope seats. Made in Japan, 1950s. Retains original AFM, Made in Japan label.
Category
Vintage 1950s Japanese Mid-Century Modern Benches
Materials
Rope, Wood
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A Close Look at Mid-century-modern Furniture
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 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.
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