August 1987 Hawaiian Raku Vase by Kate & Will Jacobson
By Kate & Will Jacobson
Located in Chapel Hill, NC
August 1987 Raku Vase by Kate & Will Jacobson, Hawaii A stunning "naked raku" example, the Jacobsons are often credited with originating. "This firing technique reveals the unadorned...
Clay
Jon Pacini Pottery Lidded Crocus Bowl, Hawaii
Located in Fairfield, CA
Stamped on the bottom "Pacini Pottery, Kona Hawaii".
Ceramic
$177Sale Price|40% Off
MCM Hawaiian Art Pottery Pin-up Yellow Hula Girl Wall Sculpture
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original California Art Pottery Hawaiian Hula girl wall sculptures. The sculpture features a beautiful girl sitting with a raised leg, a grass skirt, a flower lei, and Hibiscus in th...
Pottery
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Modernist Abstract Vase
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, relatively large free form modernist abstract vase with indentations by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The high-fired vase features a s...
Porcelain, Pottery
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging sumptuously glazed Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired porcelain bowl features a vast array o...
Porcelain, Pottery
Toshiko Takaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
Would be a great addition to any collectors of her or other Mid-Century Modern pottery makers or make for an eye-catching stand-alone work in about any setting.
Porcelain, Pottery
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging gorgeously glazed Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired bowl features a Tenmoku glaze with an a...
Porcelain, Pottery
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Mid-Century Modern Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, relatively large sumptuously glazed bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The high-fired porcelain bowl features a shifting earth tone...
Porcelain, Pottery
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Mid-Century Modern Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging relatively large sumptuously glazed bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The high-fired porcelain bowl features a v...
Porcelain, Pottery
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging sumptuously glazed relatively large Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired bowl features a drip ...
Pottery, Stoneware
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging sumptuously glazed Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired bowl features a vast array of shifting...
Earthenware, Pottery
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A spectacular, rare and quite engaging early Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired bowl features a vibrant, shifting, thick, c...
Earthenware, Pottery
Toshiko Takaezu Signed Mid-Century Modern Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, sumptuously glazed bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The high-fired bowl features a shifting earth toned drip glaze and her famed ...
Earthenware, Pottery
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Mid-Century Modern Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, sumptuously glazed, spectacular bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The high-fired porcelain bowl features a shifting earth toned dr...
Porcelain, Pottery
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Mid-Century Modern Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful, sumptuously glazed bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The high-fired porcelain bowl features a shifting earth toned drip glaze with...
Porcelain, Pottery
Toshiko Takaezu Signed Mid-Century Modern Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging relatively large sumptuously glazed bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The high-fired stoneware bowl features a v...
Pottery, Stoneware
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and very engaging Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired stoneware bowl features a vast array of shifting, vibrant,...
Pottery, Stoneware
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired bowl features a vast array of shifting, vibrant, and colo...
Earthenware, Pottery
$450Sale Price / set|40% Off
Hawaiian Art Pottery Nude Pin-up Yellow Hula Girl Wall Sculpture, Pair
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original pair of Hawaiian Art Pottery Nude Hawaiian Hula girl wall sculptures by Fond Memories in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
Pottery
$447Sale Price / set|40% Off
MCM Hawaiian Art Pottery Nude Pin-up Yellow Hula Girl Wall Sculpture, Pair
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original pair of California Art Pottery Nude Hawaiian Hula girl wall sculptures. Each sculpture features a beautiful girl sitting with a raised leg, a grass skirt, a flower lei, and ...
Pottery
$510Sale Price|40% Off
Nude Hawaiian Girl California Pottery Wall Art by Dorothy Kindell
By Dorothy Kindell
Located in Van Nuys, CA
California artist Dorothy Kindell produced unique figurines and giftware in the 1940s - 1950s. Her clever figural ceramic art has become popular and highly collectible in recent year...
Ceramic
$270Sale Price|40% Off
1968 California Art Pottery Hawaiian Polynesian Hula Girl Bust Statue, Signed
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Mid-century Hawaiian Polynesian boy Ceramic bust statue by Marwal. The statue features a hand-sculpted bust of a young Polynesian girl with red hibiscus and black hair that has been ...
Ceramic
$255Sale Price|40% Off
MCM Shawnee Pottery 896 Hawaiian Hula Girl Polynesian Pink Plant Bust Vase
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Crafted by the renowned Shawnee Pottery company in the 1950s this features a bust of a young native Hawaiian woman with a Hibiscus in her hair and an open top for taking flowers.
Ceramic
$108Sale Price|40% Off
Mid-century "Hawaiian" Hula Girl in Grass Skirt Ceramic Statue
Located in Van Nuys, CA
1955 Mid-century Era pink and yellow hula girl ceramic statue. The statue features a beautifully detailed hula girl holding a flower in her hair with the word "Hawaiian" along the ba...
Pottery
$211Sale Price|35% Off
Rare Mid-Century Hawaiian Dancing Hula Ceramic Girl Vase Signed by Yona Lippin
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This elegant ceramic figurine by artist Yona Lippin is a prime example of mid-century California Pottery. The hula dancer is captured in a graceful pose, wearing a textured yellow "g...
Pottery
$117Sale Price|40% Off
Mid-century Anthurium Ceramic Candy Dish by Tropical Clay Hawaii
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Mid-century Hawaiian clay art pottery Anthurium flower candy bowl by Tropical Clay Hawaii featuring intricate details and a beautiful multicolor pattern.
Ceramic
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Studio Pottery Closed Form With Rattle Sculpture
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging sumptuously glazed closed-form sculpture with rattle by renowned Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu, famed for her use of color,...
Porcelain, Pottery
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Studio Pottery Closed Form With Rattle Sculpture
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging wonderfully glazed closed-form sculpture with rattle by renowned Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu, famed for her use of color,...
Porcelain, Pottery
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Studio Pottery Closed Form With Rattle Sculpture
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging colorfully glazed closed-form sculpture with rattle by renowned Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu, famed for her use of color, ...
Porcelain, Pottery
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Studio Pottery Closed Form With Rattle Sculpture
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging wonderfully glazed closed-form sculpture with rattle by renowned Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu, famed for her use of color,...
Porcelain, Pottery
Sold
H 18 in W 3.5 in D 2.5 in
Large Hawaiian Pottery Ceramic long-legged Flamingo Figurine by Found Memories
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Rare Hawaiian Pottery Modernist pink and gold long-legged flamingo ceramic figurine by Found Memories in Kailua-Kona, Hawaii.
Ceramic
Ed K Higa Signed Hawaiian Artist Mid-Century Studio Pottery Sculpture Raku Bowl
Located in Studio City, CA
A wonderful and gorgeously designed and glazed bowl by Hawain potter/artist Ed K Higa (initially we thought this bowl was by Charles Higa, also a Hawaiin artist but now believe it is...
Pottery
MCM California Pottery Hawaiian Hula Leilani Girl Planter Set by Delee
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original Mid-century matching Hawaiian Hula girl ceramic planter set by the Delee pottery company.
Ceramic
Sold
H 10 in W 6 in D 5 in
MCM California Pottery Hawaiian Hula Leilani & Maui Ceramic Planter Set by Delee
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Original Mid-century matching Hawaiian Hula Leilani & Maui ceramic planter set by the Delee pottery company.
Ceramic
Sold
H 6 in W 4 in D 3 in
MCM Hawaiian 896 Hula Girl Polynesian Pink Plant Bust Vase by Shawnee Pottery
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Crafted by the renowned Shawnee Pottery company in the 1950s, this features a bust of a young native Hawaiian woman with a Hibiscus in her hair and an open top for taking flowers.
Ceramic
Sold
H 2.1 in Dm 3.25 in
Toshiko Takaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Glazed Pottery Chawan Yunomi Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
Would be a great addition to any collectors of her or other Mid-Century Modern pottery makers or an eye-catching stand-alone work in about any setting.
Pottery
Sold
H 9.5 in W 12.75 in D 12.5 in
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Mid-Century Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Planter Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A quite large, heavy, beautifully glazed planter/bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The high-fired stoneware planter features a myriad of shifti...
Pottery, Stoneware
Sold
H 3.75 in W 6.85 in D 6.75 in
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging relatively large Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired porcelain bowl features a vast array of ...
Porcelain, Pottery
Sold
H 1.5 in W 3.25 in D 3.25 in
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Makaha Blue Pottery Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and special diminutive Chawan/ Yunomi tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu featuring her highly coveted Makaha deep blue glaze.
Porcelain, Pottery
Sold
H 3.5 in W 5.3 in D 5.1 in
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging sumptuously glazed Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired bowl features a vast array of shifting...
Earthenware, Pottery
Sold
H 2.75 in W 4.5 in D 4.4 in
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired bowl features a vast array of shifting, vibrant, and colo...
Porcelain, Pottery
Sold
H 3.25 in W 5.25 in D 4.75 in
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and engaging Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired, somewhat oblong shaped bowl features a vast array of shifting,...
Porcelain, Pottery
Sold
H 3.9 in W 5.25 in D 4.75 in
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Glazed Chawan Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and very engaging Chawan tea bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The fired porcelain bowl features a vast array of shifting, vibrant,...
Porcelain, Pottery
Sold
H 2.15 in Dm 3.25 in
Toshiko Takaezu Signed Japanese Shigaraki Ware Pottery Chawan Yunomi Tea Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
Would be a great addition to any collectors of Toshiko's work or Japanese/Hawaiian pottery collections or make for an eye-catching stand-alone accent work in about any setting.
Pottery, Stoneware
Sold
H 3.6 in W 9.5 in D 9.25 in
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Mid-Century Japanese Hawaiian Studio Pottery Oxblood Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
Would be a great addition to any collectors of Toshiko's or other Mid-Century Modern/ Japanese/ Hawaiian artist's pottery works or make for an eye-catching stand-alone accent work in...
Pottery, Stoneware
Dorothy Kindell Nude Hawaiian Girl California Pottery Wall Art
By Dorothy Kindell
Located in Van Nuys, CA
California artist, Dorothy Kindell, produced unique figurines and gift-ware in the 1940s-1950s. Her clever figural ceramic art has become popular and highly collectible in recent yea...
Ceramic
David Kuraoka Hawaiian Artist Signed Large Modern Ceramic Pottery Vessel
By David Kuraoka
Located in Studio City, CA
This is truly a stunning piece. Impossible not to gravitate right to it. It is both remarkable in design and sheer magnitude. Would clearly be the centerpiece to any collection or in...
Ceramic
Sold
H 2.75 in W 13 in D 13 in
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Midcentury Japanese Large Studio Pottery Ceramic Bowl
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
An absolutely gorgeous and wonderful large bowl by famed Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu. The quite large bowl features a unique design with wonderful brown...
Pottery
Sold
H 4.5 in Dm 4.25 in
Tashiko Tazaezu Signed Japanese Studio Pottery Closed Form With Rattle Sculpture
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautiful and quite engaging sumptuously glazed closed-form sculpture with rattle by renowned Japanese Hawaiian American pottery master Toshiko Takaezu, famed for her use of color,...
Porcelain, Pottery
Sold
H 10 in W 8.25 in D 0.5 in
Toshiko Takaezu Signed Japanese Pottery First Edition Book The Earth In Bloom
By Toshiko Takaezu
Located in Studio City, CA
The book is signed by both Japanese Hawaiian ceramic/pottery artist Toshiko Takaezu and author Stanley Yake and dated (2006).
Paper
Consolidated Listing for Peace Design
Located in Studio City, CA
Consolidated Listing: Japanese Antique Meiji Wabi-Sabi Shigaraki Ware Art Pottery Jar Tsubo Pot VaseJapanese Antique Meiji Wabi-Sabi Shigaraki Ware Art Pottery Jar Tsubo Pot Vase - L...
Pottery, Stoneware
HILDEGARDE
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Lux was a member of the American Art Congress, Associated American Artists for whom she designed Stonelain Pottery, and the Hawaii Artists & Sculptors League.
Terracotta
Vintage 1950's Cotton Hawaiian Pottery Novelty Print Dress
Located in Hudson on the Saint Croix, WI
vintage 1950's dress * blue and gold cotton * pottery bottles novelty print * halter neckline * full skirt * fitted bodice with back stays * metal side zipper condition | ...
Ceramic Sculpture "Hawaiian Girl" Ronzan, 1950
Located in Palermo, Italia
Ceramic sculpture depicting a "Hawaiian girl" sitting on a rock. Made by the great master Ronzan, circa 1950. Noteworthy is the elegance of the face features of it and all the detai...
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.
Their charming solid-oak pieces offer homes utility and comfort.
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.