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Alexander Girard Radio

Rare Alexander Girard Detrola Radio, circa 1946, Modernist
By Alexander Girard
Located in Buffalo, NY
underside: [12132]. USA Medium Design/Decorative Art Manufacturer Detrola Radio Alexander Girard American
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Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Musical Instruments

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Brass

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Organic Modern Small Table Lamp Natural Wood Handmade Ivory Fluted Shade
By Isabel Moncada
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Modernist Space Age Clairtone G3 T13 Stereo System with Globe Speakers
By Clairtone
Located in Buffalo, NY
Vintage classic Modernist / Spaceage of high design Clairtone G3 T13 with Garrard turntable all made in Canada.Amazing design.. All functions working perfectly..Sounds great!! Phon...
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Clairtone Project G2 Series T11 Console Stereo System & Garrard Turntable
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Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
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Alexander Girard Ashtray/ Match Holder from La Fonda Del Sol
By Alexander Girard
Located in Highland, IN
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Alexander Girard for Herman Miller Neck Ties. NOS. Silk. Vintage 1960s, Signed
By Alexander Girard, Herman Miller
Located in Kansas City, MO
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Mid-Century Modern Coral Pink Crosley Model T-60 AM Tube Table Radio
By Crosley Radio
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
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1969, Jean Prouvé Filling Station
By Jean Prouvé
Located in Perpignan, FR
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1969, Jean Prouvé Filling Station
H 118.12 in Dm 393.71 in
1954 George Nelson for Herman Miller Walnut Twin Headboard 2x Available
By Herman Miller, George Nelson
Located in Philadelphia, PA
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One of a Kind Midcentury Side Table Designed by Alexander Girard
By Alexander Girard
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
One of a kind Midcentury side table designed by Alexander Girard. handmade terrazzo table with inlay on steel frame legs. Features Girards early signature ( triangle, square, circle)...
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By Henry Ward
Located in Amsterdam, NL
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Collection of Vintage Antique Alexander Girard Radios
By Alexander Girard, Raymond Lowey, Crosley Radio, Dieter Rams, Charles and Ray Eames
Located in Framingham, MA
Incredible collection of Alexander Girard designed radios for various manufacturers. The radios
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Mid-Century Modern Vintage Antique Cathedral Radio by Detrola Alexander Girard
By Crosley Radio, Alexander Girard
Located in Framingham, MA
Girard since he was a radio designer there during this time, and made the model 571s. Chassis
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Rare Alexander Girard for Detrola Radio 1946
By Alexander Girard
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Rare radio designed for Detrola by Alexander Girard. An other example of this radio
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Alexander Girard Detrola Radio
By Alexander Girard
Located in Pittsburgh, PA
Radio designed by multitalented designer Alexander Girard for Detrola.
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Alexander Girard Detrola Radio
H 8 in W 12.25 in D 8 in
Large Mid-Century Modern Radio by General Electric
By General Electric, Alexander Girard, Charles and Ray Eames
Located in Framingham, MA
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MCM Mid Century Modern Stereo Console George Nelson for Herman Miller, Working
By George Nelson
Located in Madison, WI
until the mid-1960s, and was responsible for bringing Charles and Ray Eames, Alexander Girard and Isamu
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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

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.