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Gubi Beetle Brass

Beetle Sofa, Conic Base, Fully Upholstered with Semi-Matte Brass Legs
By Gubi
Located in Berkeley, CA
Taking its inspiration from the beetle lounge chair, the elongated beetle sofa has a rounded
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Sofas

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Brass

Beetle Ottoman, Conic Base, Brass Semi Matte
By Gubi, GamFratesi Design Studio
Located in Berkeley, CA
The Beetle ottoman is adding an extra level of comfort to the Beetle lounge chair, but is
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Ottomans and Poufs

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Brass

Beetle Ottoman, Conic Base, Brass Semi Matte
Beetle Ottoman, Conic Base, Brass Semi Matte
$1,807 / item
H 16.5 in W 23.5 in D 17.75 in
Beetle Lounge Chair, Fully Upholstered, Conic Base, Antique Brass
By GamFratesi Design Studio, Gubi
Located in Berkeley, CA
The Beetle lounge chair is with its comfortable design and generously proportioned silhouette, the
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

Materials

Brass

Beetle Lounge Chair, Fully Upholstered, Conic Base, Brass Semi Matte
By Gubi, GamFratesi Design Studio
Located in Berkeley, CA
The Beetle lounge chair is with its comfortable design and generously proportioned silhouette, the
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

Materials

Brass

Beetle Sofa, Conic Base, Fully Upholstered with Black Chrome Legs
By Gubi
Located in Berkeley, CA
Taking its inspiration from the beetle lounge chair, the elongated beetle sofa has a rounded
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Sofas

Materials

Brass

Beetle Dining Chair, Front Upholstered, Conic Base, Antique Brass
By Gubi, GamFratesi Design Studio
Located in Berkeley, CA
Looking closely at the anatomy of the beetle insect, characterized by its solid outside and soft
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Brass

Beetle Dining Chair, Un-Upholstered, Conic Base, Antique Brass
By Gubi, GamFratesi Design Studio
Located in Berkeley, CA
With the introduction of the un-upholstered Beetle chair, the collection has bloomed into a chair
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs

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Brass

Beetle Dining Chair, Seat Upholstered, Conic Base, Antique Brass
By GamFratesi Design Studio, Gubi
Located in Berkeley, CA
Taking inspiration from the four-legged creature – the beetle, GamFratesi has been looking closely
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Brass

Beetle Dining Chair, Fully Upholstered, Conic Base, Antique Brass
By GamFratesi Design Studio, Gubi
Located in Berkeley, CA
The Beetle chair has since its introduction in 2013 being well received by end-consumers as well as
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Brass

Beetle Dining Chair, Front Upholstered, Conic Base, Brass Semi Matte
By Gubi, GamFratesi Design Studio
Located in Berkeley, CA
Looking closely at the anatomy of the beetle insect, characterized by its solid outside and soft
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs

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Brass

Beetle Dining Chair, Un-Upholstered, Conic Base, Brass Semi Matte
By GamFratesi Design Studio, Gubi
Located in Berkeley, CA
With the introduction of the un-upholstered Beetle chair, the collection has bloomed into a chair
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs

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Brass

Beetle Dining Chair, Seat Upholstered, Conic Base, Brass Semi Matte
By GamFratesi Design Studio, Gubi
Located in Berkeley, CA
Taking inspiration from the four-legged creature – the beetle, GamFratesi has been looking closely
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Brass

Beetle Dining Chair, Fully Upholstered, Conic Base, Brass Semi Matte
By GamFratesi Design Studio, Gubi
Located in Berkeley, CA
The Beetle Chair has since its introduction in 2013 being well received by end-consumers as well as
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Brass

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Set of Four Beetle Dining Chair, Conic Brass Base, Belsuede #132
By GamFratesi Design Studio, Gubi
Located in Berkeley, CA
The Beetle chair has since its introduction in 2013 being well received by end-consumers as well as
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs

Materials

Brass

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Gubi Beetle Brass For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the piece of gubi beetle brass you’re looking for. An item from our selection of gubi beetle brass — often made from brass, metal and plastic — can elevate any home. If you’re shopping for a choice in our collection of gubi beetle brass, we have 5 options in-stock, while there are 12 modern editions to choose from as well. Your living room may not be complete without an object in our assortment of gubi beetle brass — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 21st Century. When you’re browsing for the right option in this array of gubi beetle brass, those designed in Mid-Century Modern styles are of considerable interest.

How Much is a Gubi Beetle Brass?

Prices for a piece of gubi beetle brass start at $425 and top out at $7,735 with the average selling for $1,390.

Gubi for sale on 1stDibs

Iconic Danish furniture and lighting manufacturer Gubi was founded in Copenhagen by designer-couple Lisbeth and Gubi Olsen in 1967. The brand is celebrated globally for its innovative chairs, lighting fixtures, mirrors, sofas and other furnishings and decor. 

The company began as a platform to manufacture the textiles and furniture designed by Lisbeth and Gubi. Soon, the business model broadened. While recent contemporary pieces manufactured by Gubi such as GamFratesi’s Beetle chair have become darlings of today’s interiors, the company is also widely known as a leader in reissuing exquisite Scandinavian and other mid-century modern furniture by a range of design legends. 

Swedish architect and interior designer Greta Magnusson Grossman — the first woman to receive a prize for furniture design from the Swedish Society of Industrial Design — emigrated to the United States and built 14 homes in Los Angeles in the postwar era that were inspired by the Case Study Houses. She furnished these homes with her own designs, and her impossibly sleek Grasshopper table lamps and floor lamps — created for Barker Bros. but today made by Gubi — were frequent fixtures in the interiors. Another Scandinavian architect and industrial designer, Louis Weisdorf designed the wildly popular Multi-Lite line of lighting fixtures, which were originally created during the early 1970s and reissued by Gubi in 2016.

Beyond lighting, Spanish designer Barbara Corsini created the distinctively geometric Pedrera coffee table during the mid-1950s that is now made by Gubi, while the Hungarian-born French master of postwar design, Mathieu Matégot, created the Tropique dining table and an elegant three-legged Nagasaki chair, both of which were reissued by the Danish brand. French furniture designer Pierre Paulin created the inviting, organically shaped Pacha lounge chair in 1975. This design yielded a loveseat and a sofa as well. All of these pieces were reissued by Gubi.

Since 2001, Gubi founders’ son, Jacob Olsen, has managed the company, and travels the world to find heirs to the iconic designers of yesteryear in order to secure permission to give their works a second life. 

On 1stDibs, find Gubi lighting, seating, tables and more. 

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.

Materials: Brass Furniture

Whether burnished or lacquered, antique, new and vintage brass furniture can elevate a room.

From traditional spaces that use brass as an accent — by way of brass dining chairs or brass pendant lights — to contemporary rooms that embrace bold brass decor, there are many ways to incorporate the golden-hued metal.

“I find mixed metals to be a very updated approach, as opposed to the old days, when it was all shiny brass of dulled-out silver tones,” says interior designer Drew McGukin. “I especially love working with brass and blackened steel for added warmth and tonality. To me, aged brass is complementary across many design styles and can trend contemporary or traditional when pushed either way.”

He proves his point in a San Francisco entryway, where a Lindsey Adelman light fixture hangs above a limited-edition table and stools by Kelly Wearstleralso an enthusiast of juxtapositions — all providing bronze accents. The walls were hand-painted by artist Caroline Lizarraga and the ombré stair runner is by DMc.

West Coast designer Catherine Kwong chose a sleek brass and lacquered-parchment credenza by Scala Luxury to fit this San Francisco apartment. “The design of this sideboard is reminiscent of work by French modernist Jean Prouvé. The brass font imbues the space with warmth and the round ‘portholes’ provide an arresting geometric element.”

Find antique, new and vintage brass tables, case pieces and other furnishings now on 1stDibs.

Finding the Right Seating for You

With entire areas of our homes reserved for “sitting rooms,” the value of quality antique and vintage seating cannot be overstated.

Fortunately, the design of side chairs, armchairs and other lounge furniture — since what were, quite literally, the early perches of our ancestors — has evolved considerably.

Among the earliest standard seating furniture were stools. Egyptian stools, for example, designed for one person with no seat back, were x-shaped and typically folded to be tucked away. These rudimentary chairs informed the design of Greek and Roman stools, all of which were a long way from Sori Yanagi's Butterfly stool or Alvar Aalto's Stool 60. In the 18th century and earlier, seats with backs and armrests were largely reserved for high nobility.

The seating of today is more inclusive but the style and placement of chairs can still make a statement. Antique desk chairs and armchairs designed in the style of Louis XV, which eventually included painted furniture and were often made of rare woods, feature prominently curved legs as well as Chinese themes and varied ornaments. Much like the thrones of fairy tales and the regency, elegant lounges crafted in the Louis XV style convey wealth and prestige. In the kitchen, the dining chair placed at the head of the table is typically reserved for the head of the household or a revered guest.

Of course, with luxurious vintage or antique furnishings, every chair can seem like the best seat in the house. Whether your preference is stretching out on a plush sofa, such as the Serpentine, designed by Vladimir Kagan, or cozying up in a vintage wingback chair, there is likely to be a comfy classic or contemporary gem for you on 1stDibs.

With respect to the latest obsessions in design, cane seating has been cropping up everywhere, from sleek armchairs to lounge chairs, while bouclé fabric, a staple of modern furniture design, can be seen in mid-century modern, Scandinavian modern and Hollywood Regency furniture styles.

Admirers of the sophisticated craftsmanship and dark woods frequently associated with mid-century modern seating can find timeless furnishings in our expansive collection of lounge chairs, dining chairs and other items — whether they’re vintage editions or alluring official reproductions of iconic designs from the likes of Hans Wegner or from Charles and Ray Eames. Shop our inventory of Egg chairs, designed in 1958 by Arne Jacobsen, the Florence Knoll lounge chair and more.

No matter your style, the collection of unique chairs, sofas and other seating on 1stDibs is surely worthy of a standing ovation.