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1950s Italian Shield Mirror

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1950s Italian Brass Shield Wall Mirror In The Manner Of Gio Ponti

$3,412

1950s Italian Brass Shield Wall Mirror In The Manner Of Gio Ponti

Located in London, GB

A patinated brass framed mirror of shield-like form with original bevelled and lightly foxed plate, in the manner of Gio Ponti.

Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Wall Mirrors

Materials

Brass

An orignal 1950s Italian shield mirror with solid wood back

$3,480

An orignal 1950s Italian shield mirror with solid wood back

By Gio Ponti

Located in London, GB

An orignal 1950s Italian shield mirror with solid brass frame and solid wood back

Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mirrors

Materials

Brass

A large orignal Italian 1950s shield mirror with brass frame

$4,435

A large orignal Italian 1950s shield mirror with brass frame

By Gio Ponti

Located in London, GB

A large orignal Italian 1950s shield mirror with thick brass frame and orignal plate with solid wood back. The overall condition is good with some small spots of foxing on the origna...

Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Mantel Mirrors and Fireplace Mi...

Materials

Materials

Metal, Brass

Gio Ponti Style Mid-Century Modern Brass Shield Form Mirror, Italy, 1950

Sold

H 25.2 in W 14.57 in D 0.79 in

Gio Ponti Style Mid-Century Modern Brass Shield Form Mirror, Italy, 1950

Located in Madrid, ES

Gio Ponti style mirror, shield form with brass structure.

Category

Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors

Materials

Brass

$2,850

H 35.5 in W 27.5 in D 1 in

Italian Brass Mirror by Le Lampade

By Gio Ponti

Located in Sag Harbor, NY

1950s style Italian brass mirror by Le Lampade Handmade in Italy.

Category

2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors

Materials

$3,800

H 29 in Dm 23 in

Palmer Smith Art Deco Aluminum Globe Lamp

By Palmer Smith

Located in Atlanta, GA

Rare Art Deco Aluminum Globe Lamp by Palmer Smith, unsigned, American, circa 1930s. In 25 years of collecting American Art Deco, we have only seen this lamp form come up for sale twi...

Category

Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Table Lamps

Materials

Metal, Aluminum

Chic 'Méandre' Gilt Bronze Side Chair by Design Frères

$2,900 / item

H 32.5 in W 18 in D 20 in

Chic 'Méandre' Gilt Bronze Side Chair by Design Frères

By Design Frères

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Undulating 'Méandre' gilt bronze finish side chair by Design Frères. Gilt bronze finish over steel frame. Natural linen upholstered cushion with contrasting piping. Chic and unders...

Category

21st Century and Contemporary American Modern Chairs

Materials

Steel

H 31.5 in W 33.47 in D 43.31 in

The Albert, Custom Made Belgian Linen Armchair

Located in Jesteburg, DE

Introducing the home collection. A small selection of timeless Flemish designs made by hand for us in a small third generation workshop in Belgium. Has been used by many influent...

Category

2010s Belgian Modern Club Chairs

Materials

Linen

Panoplie Iron Double Loop Bench, Boucle

$2,150 / item

H 20 in W 36 in D 18 in

Panoplie Iron Double Loop Bench, Boucle

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Beautiful bench with curved and looped iron base painted in a matte black finish, inspired by French design. Rectangular cushioned seat upholstered in an ivory boucle fabric. Designe...

Category

2010s American Benches

Materials

Iron

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Gio Ponti Shield Mirror For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal gio ponti shield mirror for your home. Each gio ponti shield mirror for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, brass and glass. If you’re shopping for a gio ponti shield mirror, we have 31 options in-stock, while there are 1 modern editions to choose from as well. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect gio ponti shield mirror — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century are available. A gio ponti shield mirror is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Mid-Century Modern styles are sought with frequency.

How Much is a Gio Ponti Shield Mirror?

Prices for a gio ponti shield mirror can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $556 and can go as high as $10,800, while the average can fetch as much as $2,053.

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

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.

Finding the Right Wall-mirrors for You

Vintage and antique wall mirrors add depth and openness to a space — they can help create the illusion that a narrow hallway isn’t so narrow. But you don’t need hundreds of enormous arched French or Italian mirrors framed in gilded bronze to dress up your home (maybe just a few).

A few well-placed large wall mirrors and other types of mirrors can amplify lighting and help showcase the decorative and architectural features of your home. For the Palace of Versailles during the 17th century, French King Louis XIV ordered the construction of the Hall of Mirrors after spending millions of dollars importing expensive Venetian mirrors from the revered glass-blowing factories on the island of Murano. A mirror-manufacturing rivalry between Paris and Venice took shape, and soon, across from 17 large windows that open out over the adjacent Palace Gardens on one side of the Hall, more than 350 mirrors — large mirrors made of groupings of small panes — were installed, effectively bringing the radiant colors of the outdoors into the opulent corridor.

Wall mirrors for your living room can work miracles — pull your landscaping’s colors and textures indoors, Louis XIV–style, by covering the length of an interior wall across from your living-room windows with wall mirrors.

For a similar effect, surrounding your mid-century modern wall mirror with leafy air plants and fern floor plants can amplify the sense of serenity that greenery offers in your home. Choose wall mirror frame styles to match your home’s decor, or shop for a frameless, organically shaped mirror that’s cut or beveled for a clean yet distinctive showpiece. For a free-spirited Bohemian feel, create a cluster of mismatched antique wall mirrors — an arrangement of circular Art Deco wall mirrors, Rococo-style silver leaf mirrors and decorative oval Victorian mirrors could add spice to an otherwise unadorned dining-room wall.

Elsewhere, there’s nothing vain about buying a full-length mirror for your bedroom, bathroom or walk-in closet to help you perfect your look for the day. Another may be needed in your entryway for a last-minute ensemble inspection. In fact, a shimmering 18th-century hall of mirrors awaits visitors behind the steel door of Stephen Cavallo’s atelier in Manhattan.

“We like to see the look on people’s faces when they walk in,” says Cavallo.

Decorating your home and office with wall mirrors is an art form in and of itself — get started today with the variety of antique and vintage wall mirrors on 1stDibs.