Bitossi Aqua Ceramic Table Lamp, Blue Silk Lampshade by R. Houben
By Bitossi
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic table floor lamp by Bittosi, 1960s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a uniqu...
Ceramic
Large Pistachio Green Ceramic Table Lamp, Silk Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Large and clean heavy quality ceramic table or floor lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers ...
Ceramic
Ceramic Table Lamp B. Rooke, Beige Brique Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful large ceramic table or floor lamp by R Rooke, Uk, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers...
Ceramic
Red Black Ceramic Table Lamp, Custom Orange Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic table floor lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. ...
Ceramic
Ceramic Floor/Table Lamp B. Rooke, Natural Custom Made Lampshade by R. Houben
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful ceramic table or floor lamp by R Rooke, Uk, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a uni...
Ceramic
Large Ceramic Table Lamp with Custom Made Lampshade by René Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
A rare large ceramic table lamp from late-20th century Germany. Sculptural piece, made of handmade ceramic elements in brown and orange tones. With a special custom made lamp shade b...
Metal, Brass
Brown Striped Ceramic Table Lamp, Custom Made Emboidered Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful Large ceramic table lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. T...
Ceramic
Ceramic Floor/Table Lamp B. Rooke, Beige Custom Made Lampshade by R. Houben
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful ceramic table or floor lamp by R Rooke, Uk, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a uni...
Ceramic
Turquoise Lava Glazed Ceramic Table Lamp, Custom Silk Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful Large ceramic table lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. T...
Ceramic
Ceramic Floor/Table Lamp B. Rooke, Ochre Custom Made Lampshade by R. Houben
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful ceramic table or floor lamp by R Rooke, Uk, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a uni...
Ceramic
White Glazed Ceramic Table Lamp, Custom Made Silk Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful Large ceramic table lamp, with white glazed ceramics and a neutral shade, manufacturedin the 70es. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any in...
Ceramic
Delft Polychrome Ceramic Table Lamp Pair, New Olive Green Velvet Shades
By Amitābha Studio, Royal Tichelaar Makkum
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Mid-century hand-painted Dutch Delft polychrome ceramic table lamps, a rare matched pair, by Royal Tichelaar Makkum, in iron red, blue, and green on white, with new bespoke olive gre...
Brass
Ceramic Floor/Table Lamp B. Rooke, Beige Custom Made Lampshade by R. Houben
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful ceramic table or floor lamp by R Rooke, Uk, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a uni...
Ceramic
Bauhaus Style Hala Chrome and White Enameled Model '144' Table Lamp
By Hala Zeist
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Dutch Mid-Century white enameled ' Model 144' table lamp by pioneering post-war lighting manufacturer Hala, Netherlands . This handsomely designed, Bauhaus-influenced light is outfit...
Metal, Aluminum
Tapered Oval Brown Ceramic Table Lamp, Custom Multicolor Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality large ceramic table floor/table lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. This bas...
Ceramic
Conical Green Ceramic Table Lamp Berndt Friberg, Custom Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic table floor lamp by Berndt Friberg, 1970s. The shade is designed and made by René Houben. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any ...
Ceramic
Gold Scratched FLoor Table Lamp Italy 1960, Custom Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic table floor lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. ...
Ceramic
Beautiful Green Brown Ceramic Table Lamp, New Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful ceramic table lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. This bas...
Ceramic
Blue Gray Striped Ceramic Table Lamp, Custom Made Silk Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful Large ceramic table lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. T...
Ceramic
Ceramic Floor/Table Lamp B. Rooke, Beige Custom Made Lampshade by R. Houben
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful ceramic table or floor lamp by R Rooke, Uk, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a uni...
Ceramic
Holm & Andersen Sculptural Orange Table Lamp, Custom Made Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic table floor lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. ...
Ceramic
Beige Green Gray Marble Table Lamp, Silk Beige Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Clean heavy quality marble table floor lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique pres...
Ceramic
Nautilus Brass Table Lamp, Custom Made Snake Skin Pattern Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful brass table lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shapes and materials, it offers a unique presenc...
Ceramic
Orange Red Glazed Ceramic Table Lamp, Custom Made Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic table floor lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. ...
Ceramic
Pair of Brass Glass Table Lamps R. Rooke, Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
By Carl Fagerlund
Located in Rijssen, NL
Pair of heavy quality ceramic table lamp, Fagerlund, Denmark, 1970s. A set is rare to find. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With it...
Ceramic
Blue Marbled Glazed Ceramic Table Lamp, Custom Made Blue Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic table floor lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. ...
Ceramic
Ceramic Table Lamp by B. Rooke, New Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful Large ceramic table lamp by R Rooke, Uk, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a uniq...
Ceramic
Large Green Ceramic Floor Table Lamp, New Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970s
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautifu large green colored ceramic table or foor lamp from the 70s. This ceramic lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its sculptural sha...
Ceramic
XL Diamondshape Ceramic Table Floor Lamp, New Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
Located in Rijssen, NL
1 of the 2 beautiful Xl ceramic table or foor lamp from the 70s. This ceramic lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its diamondshape and de...
Ceramic
Ceramic Floor Table Lamp Blue Green, Green Blue Silk Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful colorful table or floor Lamp , 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful decorative print, it offers a uniqu...
Ceramic
Multi Color Ceramic FLoor Table Lamp, Silk Beige Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic table or floor lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presen...
Ceramic
Round Ceramic B. Rooke Table Lamp, New Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful ceramic table lamp from Bernard Rook, UK 1970s. This ceramic lamp base from Bernard Rooke brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its sculptu...
Ceramic
Blue Scheurig Ceramic Table Lamp with Custom Lampshade by René Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
A rare ceramic table lamp, Germany 1970s. Sculptural piece, made of handmade ceramic with a new custom made matching lamp shade by René Houben. The lamp is in perfect vintage condit...
Metal, Brass
Very rare RAAK Amsterdam ‘Light Sculpture’ table / floor lamp, Netherlands, 1970
By Maija Liisa Komulainen, RAAK
Located in Oud Beijerland, NL
Very rare and highly sculptural Light Sculpture lamp by RAAK, offered in very good vintage condition. The design consists of four anodized aluminum tubes, each with a different shap...
Metal, Aluminum
Neutral XL Textured Ceramic Floor Table Lamp, Natural Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality and extra large ceramic table or floor lamp by Tue Poulsen for Tue Keramik, 1960s Denmark. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interio...
Ceramic
Pair of Brown Beige Ceramic Floor Table Lamp, Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Pair of heavy quality ceramic table, 1960s Denmark. The lampshades are designed by Rene Houben. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With i...
Ceramic
$720Sale Price|20% Off
Louis Kalff Crane Feet Table Lamp for Philips
By Philips
Located in Vienna, AT
Dutch table lamp designed by Louis Kalff, 1950s. Original condition with patina.
Brass, Steel
Hand-Painted Chinoiserie Ceramic Table Lamp, Delft Polychrome, New Pleated Shade
By Royal Tichelaar Makkum, Amitābha Studio
Located in Sitges, Barcelona
Dutch Delft polychrome chinoiserie table lamp from a vintage ceramic vase by Tichelaar Makkum, hand-painted, circa 1948-1979, and paired with a new coral pleated silk shade. A flower...
Brass
$620Sale Price|20% Off
classic Louis Kalff table lamp for Philips CROW FOOT beautifully preserved
By Louis Christiaan Kalff
Located in Landshut, BY
Louis Kalff table lamp Mid century Beautifully preserved Crow's foot table lamp from the 1950s, designed by Louis Kalff for Philips. Classic textured lacquer fully functional and ...
Sheet Metal, Iron
Metallic Look Ceramic Table Lamp, Custom Made Bouclé Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic table floor lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. ...
Ceramic
Elongated Ovoid Lime Green Ceramic Table Floor Lamp with Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic floor lamp or XXL table Lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a uni...
Ceramic
Beautiful Ceramic Table Lamp, New Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful ceramic table lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. This bas...
Ceramic
XL Multi Color Ceramic FLoor Table Lamp, Silk Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
XL heavy quality ceramic table or floor lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique pr...
Ceramic
XXL Red Brown Ceramic FLoor Table Lamp, Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic floor lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings playful elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. Thi...
Ceramic
Ceramic Table Lamp by B. Rooke, New Ochre Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful Large ceramic table lamp by R Rooke, Uk, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a uniq...
Ceramic
XL Ceramic Table Lamp B. Rooke, Earth Tones Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful large ceramic table or floor lamp by R. Rooke, Uk, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offer...
Ceramic
Round Ceramic Table Lamp with Custom Silk Lampshade by René Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
A beige ceramic table lamp with blue and brown accents. Sculptural piece, made of handmade ceramic in fresh tones, with a new custom made matching silk lampshade by René Houben. The...
Metal, Brass
Bitossi Aqua Black Blue Ceramic Table Lamp, Blue Silk Lampshade by R. Houben
By Bitossi
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic table floor lamp by Bittosi, 1960s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique...
Ceramic
XL Ceramic Table Lamp B. Rooke, Beige Silk Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful large ceramic table or floor lamp by R Rooke, Uk, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers...
Ceramic
Vibrant Orange Ceramic Table Lamp, Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic table lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. A bol...
Ceramic
Pair of Bitossi Table Lamps with New Silk Custom Made Lampshades by René Houben
By Bitossi
Located in Rijssen, NL
Exceptional pair of ceramic table lamp by Bitossi, Italy, 1960s. Sculptural pieces made of handmade ceramic in blue or grey or green tones, with a combination of dry and glazed finis...
Metal, Brass
Iconic RAAK Amsterdam Extra Large Globe Chrome and Glass Table Lamp
By RAAK
Located in Voorburg, NL
Unique RAAK table lamp in excellent condition. Designed and made by RAAK Amsterdam, Holland. Very rare and beautiful lamp with a chrome base ad a glass globe all around it. Very larg...
Chrome
Oval Ceramic B. Rooke Table Lamp, New Beige Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful ceramic table lamp from Bernard Rook, UK 1970s. This ceramic lamp base from Bernard Rooke brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its sculptu...
Ceramic
Danish Sculptural Wooden Floor Table Lamp, Custom Made Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic table floor/table lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique presence. This wooden ba...
Wood
Brown Ceramic Table Lamp Earth Tones Emboidery Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful ceramic table lamp with custom made shade by R. Houben. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers ...
Ceramic
1 of 4 Soholm Table Lamps with Silk Custom Made Lampshades, René Houben 1960
By Soholm Pottery
Located in Rijssen, NL
1 of the 4 ceramic table lamps by Soholm, 1960s. Sculptural pieces made of handmade ceramic in rich blue or grey tones, with a combination of dry and glazed finishes. With new custom...
Metal
Round Ceramic Table Lamp with Custom Blue Silk Lampshade by René Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
A beige ceramic table lamp with blue and brown accents. Sculptural piece, made of handmade ceramic in fresh tones, with a new custom made matching silk lampshade by René Houben. The...
Metal, Brass
Large Ceramic Table Lamp by B. Rooke, New Lampshade by R. Houben, 1970
By Bernard Rooke
Located in Rijssen, NL
Beautiful Large ceramic table lamp by R Rooke, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a unique pr...
Ceramic
Elongated Ovoid Lime Green Ceramic Table Floor Lamp with Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
Heavy quality ceramic floor lamp or XXL table Lamp, 1970s. This lamp base brings refined elegance and rich visual appeal to any interior. With its beautiful shape, it offers a uni...
Ceramic
1 of the 2 Amber Bubble Glass Table Lamps, Custom Beige Lampshade by R. Houben
Located in Rijssen, NL
High quality amber glass bubble table lamp, 1970s. This unique table lamp features a striking vintage amber glass base with an elegant, sculptural bubble silhouette. The warm amber ...
Ceramic
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.
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Modern icons are showing up in gracefully layered dining nooks, living rooms and lounges — proof that great design only gets better with context.
With its grid-like doors and wavy trim, the 1940s design feels as fresh as ever.
The alluring pendant light exemplifies the designer’s winsome mid-career work.
Prehistoric motifs give the mid-century Italian fireplace an elemental feel.
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You know the designs, now get the stories about how they came to be.
Designer Susan Yeley turned to 1stDibs to outfit an Indiana home with standout pieces that complement its modernist style.