Mid Century G Plan

G Plan Bedroom Furniture

Victor Wilkins For G Plan

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Midcentury Teak Nesting Tables

Midcentury Modern Teak Furniture

G Plan Teak Dining Table

Materials

Teak

$6,606 / set

Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chair & Ottoman in Italian Leather by G Plan Model 62

By G Plan Furniture

Located in London, GB

Once described as 'the world’s most comfortable chair' this recently reupholstered piece in fine Italian black leather will surely bring out your inner Bond Villain. Appearing in ori...

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2010s English Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

Materials

Materials

Teak

Unavailable

H 28.75 in W 95.67 in D 34.65 in

Retro Black Vinyl Chaise Sofa G Plan, Mid-Century

By G Plan Furniture

Located in Greater Manchester, GB

The 1960s saw G Plan enter their heyday and its not Gard to see why when they were producing furniture as stunning as this black vinyl chaise Sofa with it’s intricate button backed h...

Walnut

1970s Dyrlund Scandinavian Modern Extendable Rosewood Dining Table Denmark

$3,900

H 28.5 in Dm 51 in

1970s Dyrlund Scandinavian Modern Extendable Rosewood Dining Table Denmark

By Dyrlund

Located in Chula Vista, CA

Danish Modern 1970s Scandinavian Rosewood Extendable Dining Table. Attribution Dyrlund unsigned Solid wood legs. Round top in plywood book matched rosewood veneer. Clean modern desig...

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Vintage 1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Dining Room Tables

Materials

Rosewood, Plywood

$4,395

H 28.5 in W 86.63 in D 35.38 in

Norway Large Dining Table Mid-Century Teak by Gustav Bahus

By Alf Aarseth

Located in Baltimore, MD

Beautiful large teak Mid-Century Modern expandable Dining Table with rounded corners designed by Alf Aarseth and manufactured by Gustav Bahus in Norway in the 1960s. Features richly ...

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Vintage 1960s Norwegian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables

Materials

Teak

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Mid Century G Plan For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the mid century g plan you’re looking for. Frequently made of wood, hardwood and teak, every mid century g plan was constructed with great care. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect mid century g plan — we have versions that date back to the 18th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century are available. A mid century g plan is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Mid-Century Modern, Scandinavian Modern and Industrial styles are sought with frequency. You’ll likely find more than one mid century g plan that is appealing in its simplicity, but G Plan Furniture, G-Plan and Ib Kofod-Larsen produced versions that are worth a look.

How Much is a Mid Century G Plan?

Prices for a mid century g plan start at $185 and top out at $56,417 with the average selling for $1,822.

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

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.