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Mcm Nightstands From 1950s

Vintage MCM Rosewood Nightstand End Table by Glenn of California
By Glenn of California
Located in Topeka, KS
the forefront of the West Coast modernist design movement in the 1940’s and 1950’s. The company made a
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers

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Aluminum

Vintage MCM Rosewood Lingerie Chest by Glenn of California
By Glenn of California
Located in Topeka, KS
credited for being at the forefront of the West Coast modernist design movement in the 1940’s and 1950’s
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers

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Aluminum

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Organic Modern Small Table Lamp Natural Wood Handmade Ivory Fluted Shade
By Isabel Moncada
Located in San Antonio, TX
PATA DE ELEFANTE SMALL table lamp was designed for the Atomic collection by Mexican artist Isabel Moncada. Named Pata de Elefante –Elephant's Foot– for the prominent shape at its ba...
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21st Century and Contemporary Mexican Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Fiberglass, Linen, Fabric, Wood

Sasco Semi-Flush Mount Brass Light Fixture, Custom Finishes
Located in Pound Ridge, NY
The Sasco is a versatile custom-made solid brass and glass globe light fixture, which can be mounted on the ceiling or wall. Shown here in our factory brass, an uneven unfinished br...
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2010s American Flush Mount

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Brass

'Plissé White Edition' Pleated Textile Table Lamp by Folkform for Örsjö
By Örsjö Industri AB
Located in Glendale, CA
'Plissé White Edition' pleated textile table lamp by Folkform for Örsjö. This unique table lamp was awarded “Lighting of the Year 2022” by Residence Magazine Sweden, who called it “...
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21st Century and Contemporary Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Textile

Midcentury Studio Craft Handmade Tall Dresser Wardrobe Style of Nakashima
By George Nakashima
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
Stunning Mid-Century Modern Studio Craft custom handmade tall 3 drawer dresser wardrobe style of Nakashima. Very clean all original 2 section Wardrobe - lower dresser with upper ward...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Dressers

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Brass

Canadian Vintage Rosewood Wardrobe by Roger Rougier
By Roger Rougier, Milo Baughman
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Bring home a stunning example of Canadian modernism with this spellbinding rosewood wardrobe designed by Roger Rougier. A multicolored wood grain facade is uniquely offset by off-whi...
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Cabinets

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Metal, Chrome

Poul Volther Tall Rosewood Chest of Drawers, circa 1960s
By Poul Volther
Located in London, England
Poul Volther, Model F-17 chest of drawers, circa 1950s. A tall chest of drawers made from exquisite solid and veneered rosewood with six drawers. The chest is in immaculate condit...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers

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Oak, Rosewood

Danish Midcentury Teak double bed with Cane headboard by Hans Wegner for Getama
By Hans J. Wegner, GETAMA
Located in Berlin, DE
Elegantely shaped double bed model GE 701 designed by Hans Wegner in the 1960s and produced by Getama. The headboard is made of woven cane and has floating side tables with black gla...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Beds and Bed Frames

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Cane, Teak

Soda Blown Murano Glass High Coffee Table in Amber by Yiannis Ghikas
By Yiannis Ghikas, Miniforms
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Soda was born upside-down, with a puff of air. It weighs 20 kilos, and it is blown, drawn out and shaped by three master glassmakers. The result is a single volume of glass with thre...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Blown Glass

Venini Fungo Table Lamp in Gray and White by Massimo Vignelli
By Venini, Massimo Vignelli
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Glass table lamp with an interesting shape and two-tone coloring. Its sleek design and muted color pallette make it a modern, simple and understated lighting option for any space. Al...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Modern Table Lamps

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Art Glass

Trapezi Five Lights Neutral Shades Contemporary Pendant/Chandelier Brass, Glass
By Silvio Mondino Studio
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
The Trapezi contemporary chandelier is inspired by the idea of a Circus Trapeze artist. Hand blown glass in a variety of forms and colors is combined with brass bars and hung by L...
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21st Century and Contemporary Italian Organic Modern Chandeliers and Pen...

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Brass

Drexel Viewpoint 70 Gentlemen’s Chest \ Dresser
By Drexel
Located in Denton, TX
Drexel Viewpoint 70 Gentlemen’s chest \ dresser. Tons of drawers for maximum storage. The left side drawers make a perfect jewelry storage space. Refinished in a walnut color with ch...
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dressers

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Chrome

Arne Vodder Attributed Bureau Produced by N.C. Møbler in Denmark
By Arne Vodder
Located in Limhamn, Skåne län
Rare bureau attributed to Arne Vodder. Produced by N.C Møbler in Denmark.
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Vintage 1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers

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Rosewood

Danish Mid Century Teak Highboy Dresser
Located in VANCOUVER, CA
Teak dresser, circa 1960's. Six drawer dresser with solid wood edging with stunning book-matched veneer on all drawer faces and dovetail construction. Bow front design is subtle and ...
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Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Dressers

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Teak

Danish Mid Century Teak Highboy Dresser
Danish Mid Century Teak Highboy Dresser
H 42.5 in W 27.5 in D 18 in
Round Coffee Table with Ball Sphere Legs Base in Violet Viola Calacatta Marble
By Kelly Wearstler
Located in AMSTERDAM, NL
Round Violet Marble coffee table with ball legs. A sculptural sphered base coffee table made from solid stone with a honed finish that enhances the richness of the beautiful natura...
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2010s Organic Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

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Marble

Contemporary Round Center Coffee Table in Wood Marquetry Black & White
Located in Porto, PT
Santiago Center Table celebrates the 20th-century art movement, Cubism, with handcraft expertise. Rough and natural materials approach us with an exact message: modest luxury. This a...
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21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Modern Center Tables

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Birdseye Maple, Wood

Marvelous Milo Baughman Style Rosewood Chrome Desk Mid-Century Modern
By Milo Baughman
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Marvelous Milo Baughman style Mid-Century Modern rosewood desk. This desk retains its original finish with some minor scratches and dings-only ads to authenticity. The chrome base ha...
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

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Chrome

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Green MCM Pair Ceramic Table Lamps in Style of Gordon Martz for Marshall Studios
By Gordon Martz
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
of Gordon Martz for Marshall Studios. Very rare, from the 1950s and difficult to find, especially in
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

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Ceramic

1965 MCM Drexel Declaration Record Cabinet by Kipp Stewart & Stewart MacDougall
By Kipp Stewart & Stewart MacDougall, Drexel
Located in Topeka, KS
groove plates below, 1 false back to place your 45’s or cassette tapes behind, & 1 divider that slides in
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Cabinets

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Walnut

2 Mid Century Modern Kent Coffey "Titan" Nightstands Oak Bedside End Tables Pair
By Kent-Coffey
Located in Dayton, OH
the North Carolina furniture industry in the early 1900s. The Kent-Coffey collections of the 1950s
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Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Side Tables

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Oak

Vintage Danish MCM Teak Low Boy Dresser / Nightstand - 042404
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage Danish mid-century modern, made in the 1950's - Recently refurbished The piece is more
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Vintage 1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Night Stands

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Teak

Heywood-Wakefield Nightstand or End Table Pair
By Heywood-Wakefield Co.
Located in Phoenix, AZ
Pair of unique, restored Heywood-Wakefield nightstands or end tables made from maple. The open
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern End Tables

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Maple

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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 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.

Questions About Mcm Nightstands From 1950s
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    MCM is an acronym for “Mid-Century Modern”. So a MCM nightstand would refer to a side table crafted in the mid-century modern style. MCM style is influenced by designers from the 1930s to the 1960s. Shop a collection of mid-century modern furniture from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.