Lane Burled
Vintage Lane Burled Wood Nightstands - Set of 2
By Lane Furniture
Located in Clarksboro, NJ
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
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Handsome Burled Walnut Patchworks Paul Evans Style Lane Side End Table
By Paul Evans
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Handsome Paul Evans style burled walnut patchwork end table chest. We love the lid that lifts up to
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
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Milo Baughman Style Burl Wood Nightstands by Lane, Pair
By Lane Furniture, Milo Baughman
Located in South Bend, IN
A gorgeous pair of Milo Baughman style Mid-Century Modern burl wood nightstands
By Lane Furniture
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
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Ash, Burl
Milo Baughman Style Burl Wood Parsons Dining Table by Lane, Newly Refinished
By Lane Furniture, Milo Baughman
Located in South Bend, IN
An outstanding Mid-Century Modern Parsons extension dining table in gorgeous book-matched burled
Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Materials
Burl
H 30 in W 100 in D 40 in
Burled Olivewood Night Stand
Located in Pasadena, TX
A mid-century modern nightstand with matte black lacquer case and burled olivewood front. 2 drawers
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
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Olive
Milo Baughman Style Burl Wood Sideboard, Credenza, or Bar Cabinet, Refinished
By Lane Furniture, Milo Baughman
Located in South Bend, IN
By Lane Furniture
USA, 1970s
Beautiful book-matched burled olive wood, with ash wood case
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Sideboards
Materials
Ash, Burl
H 32.38 in W 67.75 in D 18 in
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Lane Burled For Sale on 1stDibs
Choose from an assortment of styles, material and more with respect to the lane burled you’re looking for at 1stDibs. Frequently made of wood, burl and brass, every lane burled was constructed with great care. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect lane burled — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A lane burled is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Mid-Century Modern styles are sought with frequency. You’ll likely find more than one lane burled that is appealing in its simplicity, but Lane Furniture and Roland Carter produced versions that are worth a look.
How Much is a Lane Burled?
Prices for a lane burled start at $875 and top out at $3,775 with the average selling for $1,825.
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
- Eames lounge chair
- Nelson daybed
- Florence Knoll sofa
- Egg chair
- Womb chair
- Noguchi coffee table
- Barcelona chair
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 legendary 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.
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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