Michael Van Beuren Woven Side Table
By Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bauhaus trained, Mexico City based desiger, Michael Van Beuren created highly functional modern pieces inspired by Mexican vernacular styles and materials.
Rattan, Pine
Mexican Modernist Michael Van Beuren Woven Rope Cord Triangular Table
By Michael van Beuren, Domus
Located in Round Top, TX
The table offered is a Muebles Austin-produced table that Michael van Beuren designed for Domus, with wonderfully hand-tied and woven rope cord and mahogany-stained wood frame.
Cord, Rope, Wood
$18,000 / set
Michael Van Beuren Three Seater Woven Sofa
By Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bauhaus trained, Mexico City based designer, Michael Van Beuren created highly functional modern pieces inspired by Mexican vernacular styles and materials.
Rattan, Pine
Michael Van Beuren Lounge Chair Bench
By Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bauhaus trained, Mexico City based designer, Michael Van Beuren created highly functional modern pieces inspired by Mexican vernacular styles and materials.
Rattan, Pine
Woven Rattan Room Divider by Michael van Beuren, Mid-Century Design Mexico
By Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bauhaus trained, Mexico City based designer, Michael Van Beuren created highly functional modern pieces inspired by Mexican vernacular styles and materials.
Rattan, Pine
Dining Table by Michael van Beuren for Domus
By Domus, Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bauhaus trained, Mexico City based designer Michael van Beuren created highly functional modern pieces inspired by Mexican vernacular styles and materials.
Rattan, Pine
Oak Credenza with Woven Palm Cord Doors, Handmade, Michael van Beuren, LUTECA
By Michael van Beuren, Luteca Furniture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Designed in Mexico in circa 1945 by Michael van Beuren, an American designer trained at Germany's famous Bauhaus school, this credenza combines the sophistication of Europe's moderni...
Wood, Oak
Michael Van Beuren Bauhaus Teak and Raffia Loveseat, Circa 1940
By Michael van Beuren
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Mexican Modern Michael van Beuren teak and woven raffia lounge settee.
Rattan, Teak
Michael van Beuren Bauhaus Teak and Raffia Lounge Chair, circa 1940
By Michael van Beuren
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Mexican Modern Michael van Beuren teak and woven raffia lounge chair.
Raffia, Teak
Double Sided Mahogany & Rattan Bookshelf by Michael van Beuren for Domus Mexico
By Michael van Beuren, Domus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bauhaus trained, Mexico City based Michael van Beuren created a highly functional modern design inspired by Mexican vernacular styles and materials. Designed for Domus Mexico, this e...
Mahogany, Rattan
Midcentury, Line Lounge Chair by Michael van Beuren, Walnut & Velvet, by LUTECA
By Luteca Furniture, Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Line lounge chair was designed in circa 1945 by Michael van Beuren, an American who trained at Germany's prestigious Bauhaus school and then immigrated to Mexico to become one of...
Velvet, Walnut
Mid-Century Modern Woven Lounge chairs and Loveseat, circa 1960
By Michael van Beuren
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
The restrained geometry and balanced proportions strongly reflect the design language of Michael van Beuren, a key figure in Mexican modernist furniture.
Pine, Cane
Unavailable
H 33.5 in W 26 in D 28 in
Armchair & Stool Attributed to Michael van Beuren, Mexico, circa 1960
By Michael van Beuren
Located in Mexico City, Cuauhtemoc
Measures: Stool depth 15" x width 15" x height 10.2" Michael van Beuren attended the Bauhaus in Germany and later returned to New York to study architecture at New ...
Cane, Wood
1940s Basket Mahogany Wood Woven Palm Michael Van Beuren Mexico
By Michael van Beuren
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1940s Basket in mahogany wood and woven palm. Made in Mexico Unmarked Attributed to Michael Van Beuren of Domus in Mexico of Bauhaus tradition.
Seagrass, Mahogany, Natural Fiber
Sold
H 38.25 in W 60 in D 18 in
Woven Rattan Credenza by Michael van Beuren, Mid-Century Design Mexico
By Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bauhaus-trained, Mexico City-based Michael van Beuren created highly functional modern design inspired by Mexican vernacular styles and materials. This example is a credenza with a p...
Rattan, Pine
Woven Rattan Credenza by Michael van Beuren for Domus Mexico
By Michael van Beuren, Domus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bauhaus-trained, Mexico city-based Michael van Beuren created highly functional modern design inspired by Mexican vernacular styles and materials. This example is a small credenza wi...
Mahogany, Rattan
Michael van Beuren “San Miguelito” Chair
By Domus, Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
San Miguelito chair by Michael van Beuren for Domus, circa 1940s. The San Miguelito or Miguel chair was named after van Beuren’s Spanish moniker, “Don Miguel.”
Leather, Pine
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H 33.5 in W 23.25 in D 18.5 in
Set of 4 Midcentury Mexican Woven Arm Chairs by Michael van Beuren
By Michael van Beuren
Located in Charleston, SC
Stunning set of 4 rare midcentury Mexican pine and woven palm dining or side chairs by Michael van Beuren circa 1950s.
Pine
Sold
H 29.25 in W 25.25 in D 31.5 in
Michael van Beuren Mexican Modernist Pine and Woven Palm Lounge Chair, 1940s
By Michael van Beuren
Located in Coronado, CA
An uncommon and stunning lounge chair designed by American Bauhaus designer Michael van Beuren in Mexico in the 1940s. Warm pine frame with original handwoven palm fiber seat and bac...
Cane, Pine
Compact Woven Rattan Credenza by Michael van Beuren for Domus Mexico
By Michael van Beuren, Domus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bauhaus-trained, Mexico City-based Michael van Beuren created highly functional modern design inspired by Mexican vernacular styles and materials. This example is a small credenza wi...
Rattan, Mahogany
Michael Van Beuren Lounge Chair for Domus
By Domus, Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bauhaus trained, Mexico City based designer Michael Van Beuren created highly functional modern pieces inspired by Mexican vernacular styles and materials.
Cord, Mahogany
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H 29.5 in W 43.25 in D 20.5 in
Woven Credenza with Handwoven Palm Cord Doors by Michael van Beuren from LUTECA
By Luteca Furniture, Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Designed in Mexico in circa 1945 by Michael van Beuren, an American designer trained at Germany's famous Bauhaus school, who was devoted to combining the sophistication of Europe's '...
Wood
Mexican Modern Dining Table by Michael van Beuren for Domus Mexico
By Domus, Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bauhaus-trained, Mexico City-based Michael van Beuren created highly functional modern design inspired by Mexican vernacular styles and materials.
Teak, Rattan
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H 21 in W 37.5 in D 35.5 in
Convertible Coffee or Dining Table by Michael van Beuren for Domus Mexico
By Domus, Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bauhaus-trained, Mexico City-based Michael van Beuren created highly functional modern design inspired by Mexican vernacular styles and materials.
Teak, Rattan
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H 29.5 in W 84 in D 20.5 in
Handwoven Palm and Wood 4-Door Credenza by Michael van Beuren from LUTECA
By Michael van Beuren, Luteca Furniture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Designed in Mexico in circa 1945 by Michael van Beuren, an American designer trained at Germany's famous Bauhaus school, who was devoted to combining the sophistication of Europe's '...
Wood, Oak
Pair of Woven Leather Folding Stools
By Michael van Beuren, Domus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A pair of woven leather stool featuring a folding wrought iron base with an x-frame profile and hammered metal details. The seat is composed of brown leather in a plain weave. The le...
Metal, Iron
Stock Alacrán Chaise in Mahogany and Burgundy Nylon Webbing
By Luteca Furniture, Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Alacrán Chaise is an iconic, award-winning, midcentury design by the American Bauhaus trained designer Michael van Beuren. Realized during his lifetime in Mexico, it was one of t...
Nylon, Mahogany
Michael van Beuren Woven Rattan Top Coffee Table
By Michael van Beuren
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Attributed Michael van Beuren design coffee table, Mexico, circa 1950's. 2-tone hardwood frame with an under-frame strung with rattan, woven in a multi-strand basket weave resembl...
Rope, Wood
Michael Van Beuren Lounge Chair for Domus
By Michael van Beuren, Domus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bauhaus trained, Mexico City based designer Michael Van Beuren created highly functional modern pieces inspired by Mexican vernacular styles and materials.
Cord, Mahogany
Michael van Beuren High Back Lounge Chair for Domus
By Domus, Michael van Beuren
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bauhaus trained, Mexico City based designer Michael Van Beuren created highly functional modern pieces inspired by Mexican vernacular styles and materials.
Cord, Mahogany
Michael Van Beuren Game Table
By Clara Porset, Sergio Rodrigues, Michael van Beuren, Domus
Located in Round Top, TX
The table offered appears to be a Muebles Austin-produced version of a table Michael van Beuren would have designed for Domus, with wonderfully hand-tied and woven rope cord and maho...
Hemp, Wood
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H 35.13 in W 34.63 in D 15.63 in
1950's Mexican Organic Modern Mahogany & Woven Seagrass Chest of Drawers
By Michael van Beuren
Located in West Chester, PA
Organic modern chest of drawers in the style of Michael van Beuren featuring five dovetailed drawers with woven seagrass or raffia drawer fronts with shaped mahogany handles all in a...
Seagrass, Mahogany
Mexican Mid-Century Modern Woven Lounge Chair
By Michael van Beuren
Located in Kalamazoo, MI
Great looking and sitting chair made in the 1950s by Muebles Tropicales and retailed by J. L. Legoretta, Mexico City, Mexico. Featuring simple but elegant modern frames and a curvace...
Cane, Mahogany
Woven Leather Folding Stool
By Michael van Beuren, Domus
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The stool features a folding wrought iron base with x-frame profiles with hammered metal details. The seat is composed of brown leather in a plain weave. The leather straps wrap arou...
Wrought Iron
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H 1 in W 25.25 in D 15 in
1950s Serving Tray Solid Mahogany & Glass Woven Wood Lattice with Handles Mexico
By Clara Porset, Michael van Beuren
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration: Handled serving tray in solid mahogany with woven wood lattice covered in glass. 1950s entertaining midcentury Mexico in the design style of Clara Porset and...
Glass, Wood, Mahogany
Walnut and Cactus Leather Chaise from Luteca, Available Now
By Michael van Beuren, Luteca Furniture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Alacran Chaise is an iconic, award-winning, mid-century piece by the American Bauhaus trained designer Michael van Beuren. Realized during his lifetime in Mexico, it was one of t...
Leather, Walnut
Modernist Cabinet by Michael Van Beuren for Domus
By Michael van Beuren, Domus
Located in New York, NY
Designed by Michael van Beuren for his Domus company and produced in Mexico, circa 1945.
Cord, Pine
Michael Van Bueren Woven Sideboard
By Michael van Beuren
Located in Lakeland, FL
A Michael Van Bueren mahogany sideboard with doors on either side and 3 drawers at the center. The doors frame is made from a beautiful basket weave of rattan cord. Michael Van Bu...
Rattan, Mahogany
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.
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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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