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Hugh Spencer

Clairtone Project G1 Hi-Fi Stereo System with Lab 80 Turntable by Hugh Spencer
By Clairtone
Located in Dallas, TX
1960s. Designed by Hugh Spencer, less than 300 of the G1 units were ever produced. Refinished. Repaired
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Musical Instruments

Materials

Aluminum, Steel

Clairtone Project G2 Series T11 Console Stereo System & Garrard Turntable
By Clairtone
Located in Vancouver, British Columbia
designed by Hugh Spencer and introduced at the National Furniture Show in Chicago in January 1964. Striking
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Vintage 1960s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Musical Instruments

Materials

Aluminum

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Clairtone T10 Designed by Hugh Spencer
By Clairtone
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Classic Clairtone T10 stereo designed in 1964, Silver Medal Winner of the 1964 Milan Triennale. This Canadian stereo system was absolute cutting edge! A little over 300 ever produced...
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Vintage 1960s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Musical Instruments

Materials

Aluminum

Clairtone Project G 1 T4 Rosewood Stereo System First Generation by Hugh Spencer
By Clairtone
Located in Dallas, TX
Holy Grail of designer electronics from the 1960s. Designed by Hugh Spencer, less than 100 of these
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Stainless Steel

Clairtone Project G 1 T4 Rosewood Stereo System First Generation by Hugh Spencer
By Clairtone
Located in Dallas, TX
, phone or Bluetooth device. Designed by Hugh Spencer, less than 100 of these first-generation T4 units
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Cabinets

Materials

Stainless Steel

The Project G Stereo
Located in Chicago, IL
Designed by Hugh Spencer The Project G by Clairtone, Silver Medal winner of the 1964 Milan
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Vintage 1960s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Sideboards

Materials

Aluminum

The Project G Stereo
The Project G Stereo
H 27.5 in W 84.5 in D 18.5 in
1960s Clairtone Project G2 Rosewood Stereo System
By Clairtone
Located in Dallas, TX
be easily added to connect your ipad, phone or other device. Designed by Hugh Spencer.
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Cabinets

Materials

Rosewood

Clairtone Project G-1 Model T10 Rosewood Stereo System
By Clairtone
Located in Dallas, TX
Hugh Spencer less than 300 of these T10 units were ever produced.
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Cabinets

First Generation Clairtone Project G T4 Rosewood Stereo System
By Clairtone
Located in Dallas, TX
your ipad, phone or bluetooth device. Designed by Hugh Spencer less than 100 of these first generation
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Credenzas

Materials

Stainless Steel

Planpit Executive Sand Garden Coffee Table by Hugh Spencer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
An incredible coffee table by Hugh Spencer, designed and created in the 1960s this table was made
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

Materials

Wood

Hugh Spencer Brazilian Palisander & Chrome Floating Credenza
Located in Hanover, MA
Designed by one of Canada's most noted mid-century modern designers, Hugh Spencer, for his firm
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Vintage 1960s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Credenzas

Materials

Chrome

Clairtone Project G2 Rosewood T10 Console Stereo System & Turntable by Al Faux
By Clairtone
Located in Dallas, TX
originally conceived by Peter Munk, David Gilmour and Hugh Spencer. The futuristic design of the G2 was the
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Musical Instruments

Materials

Aluminum

Scarce Midcentury, Clairtone Project G Stereo System
By Clairtone
Located in St. Louis, MO
1960s. Please inquire for price and condition. Designed by Hugh Spencer. “In the sixties
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern More Furniture and Collectibles

Clairtone Model G2 Stereo Entertainment System
Located in North Hollywood, CA
" and one graced Hugh Hefner's Playboy mansion.
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Vintage 1960s Canadian Mid-Century Modern More Furniture and Collectibles

Materials

Acrylic, Rosewood

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Gerrit Thomas Rietveld Zig Zag Chair by Cassina
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Midcentury Rare Side or Serving Table, Space Age Style, Italy, 1970s
Located in Praha, CZ
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16th Century Painted Spanish Coffered Ceiling, Isabella Stewart Gardner
Located in Essex, MA
16th Century Spanish Renaissance Coffered Ceiling. Tempura on Pine is brilliant colors of azure, red, black and white. Moorish Rosettes and intertwined motifs throughout. Was redu...
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Danish Design Midcentury Pianette by Louis Zwicki in Mahogany, 1950s
Located in Breda, Netherlands
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1970s Joe Colombo Inspired Half Round Space Age Vanity with Mirror and Light
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Pair of Carved Redwood Door Panels by Evelyn Ackerman
By Evelyn & Jerome Ackerman
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Incredible 1960’s carved redwood panels for entry doors by Evelyn and Jerome Ackerman. Designed to go over a double entry doors. Four panels with frame for each door. The door pulls ...
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Speakers Audiorama 4000 by Grundig, 1970s, Set of 2
By Grundig
Located in bruxelles, BE
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Rare 19th Century Italian Memento Mori Bust / Sculpture Carrara Marble Vanitas
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F E Olds & Son Ambassador Trumpet, circa 1952
Located in High Point, NC
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F E Olds & Son Ambassador Trumpet, circa 1952
F E Olds & Son Ambassador Trumpet, circa 1952
$750
H 6 in W 21.75 in D 8.5 in
Sexy 1970s Pierre Cardin Queen Size Bed Headboard Nightstands Mid-Century Modern
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Mid-Century Era Eko Vox Teardrop Mark 6 Hollow Body 6 String Electric Guitar
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Hugh Spencer For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the hugh spencer you’re looking for. Frequently made of wood, rosewood and metal, every hugh spencer was constructed with great care. Your living room may not be complete without a hugh spencer — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. A hugh spencer, designed in the Mid-Century Modern style, is generally a popular piece of furniture. Many designers have produced at least one well-made hugh spencer over the years, but those crafted by Clairtone are often thought to be among the most beautiful.

How Much is a Hugh Spencer?

A hugh spencer can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $28,000, while the lowest priced sells for $3,500 and the highest can go for as much as $48,000.

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.