Lane Mid Century Modern Walnut
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Wood
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Walnut
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Carts and Bar Carts
Laminate, Walnut
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Walnut, Burl
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Upholstery, Cane, Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Leather, Walnut
Vintage 1960s North American Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Laminate, Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Walnut
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Rosewood, Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Bedroom Sets
Chrome
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Walnut
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Abalone, Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Beds and Bed Frames
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Night Stands
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Beds and Bed Frames
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Brass
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Brass
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors
Mirror, Walnut
Vintage 1960s North American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Textile, Walnut
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Brass
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Blanket Chests
Walnut, Cedar
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Beds and Bed Frames
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dressers
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Shelves
Walnut
Mid-20th Century North American Modern Side Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Buffets
Brass
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Smoked Glass, Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Pier Mirrors and Console Mirrors
Mirror, Walnut
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Glass, Wood
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Wardrobes and Armoires
Wood, Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Stools
Faux Leather, Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Beds and Bed Frames
Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern End Tables
Rosewood, Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Beds and Bed Frames
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Beds and Bed Frames
Walnut
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Fruitwood, Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Console Tables
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Fruitwood, Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Wood, Walnut
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Wardrobes and Armoires
Walnut
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Serving Tables
Walnut, Laminate
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Credenzas
Walnut
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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 American 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.
Postwar American architects and designers were animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist “International Style” architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the ’30s 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, respectively, pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair. George Nelson and his design team created Bubble lamp shades using a new translucent polymer skin. Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were re-purposed: the Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs that used 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 influence 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.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century 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, blonde-wood furniture — and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.