Carved Hand Stool, Mexico 1960's
By Pedro Friedeberg
Located in New York, NY
Carved hand stool in the manner of Pedro Friedberg. 3 sizes are available. This is the medium one.
Fruitwood
1960's Hammered Copper Mexican Decorative Bowl
Located in New York, NY
1960's modern hand hammered copper bowl from Mexico, well made and heavy signed by the artist, in vintage condition lightly hand polished with some wear and patina due to age and use.
Copper
Alexander Blazquez Mexican Modern Metal Bird Sculpture, 1960's
By Sergio Bustamante
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Alexander Blazquez Mexican Modern Metal Bird Sculpture, 1960's.
Metal
Alexander Blazquez Mexican Modern Metal Bird Sculpture, 1960's
By Sergio Bustamante
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Alexander Blazquez Mexican Modern Metal Bird Sculpture, 1960's.
Metal
Mexican Modern, Don S Shoemaker, Sling Swinger chair with footstool, 1960's
By Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Uccle, BE
Iconic Don S. Shoemaker Sling Swinger chair with footrest. Made from cocobolo (Mexican rosewood) and black leather in the 1960s. The biomorphic lines of the exotic rosewood create an...
Leather, Cocobolo
Mexican Modern Lounge Chair, Wood and Leather, 1960's
By Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Uccle, BE
This is the Sloucher chair made in the 1960's. Leather has been restored. Made of Cocobolo Rosewood. Don S. Shoemaker (1919 - 1990) was born in Nebraska and studied at the Art Inst...
Leather, Cocobolo
Mexican Modern Leather and wood Magazine rack, Don S. Shoemaker, 1960's
By Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Uccle, BE
Label: Señal S.A.Hecho en Mexico. Wood and black leather mid-century modern magazine rack from the sixties. The leather has a beautiful sensual feel and is in excellent condition. T...
Leather, Walnut
Mexican Modern, Rectangular coffee table, 1960's Don S. Shoemaker
By Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Uccle, BE
Label: Señal S.A.Hecho en Mexico. Cocobolo wood and black leather mid-century modern coffee table from the sixties. The leather has a beautiful sensual feel and is in excellent cond...
Leather, Cocobolo
1960s Mexican Terracotta Face Planter Vintage Mid-Century Figural Fun Pot
By Edwin and Mary Scheier
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Rings true, meaning there is not a crack through the body of the vessel. There are two chips, pictured. Dia 8 x H 7.25 in
Terracotta
Mid Century Silver Plated Fish Bottle Opener, Los Castillo, Mexico, 1960s
By Los Castillo
Located in London, GB
An eccentric silver plated articulated fish bottle opener attributed to Los Castillo and made in Taxco, Mexico, c. 1960. This bottle opener is a marvellous and functional piece in e...
Silver Plate
1960's Felipe Delfinger Mexican Brutalist Wrought Iron & Art Glass Candleholder
By Erik Höglund, Felipe Delfinger
Located in San Diego, CA
Up for sale is a wonderful Mexican Brutalist candleholder designed by Felipe Delfinger and made in Mexico. This dates from the 1960s. No signatures. Great form and design. Made of ar...
Wrought Iron
Mid-Century Modern Studio Pottery Barro Negro Vase from Lama Oaxaca Mexico 1960s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century Modern Studio Pottery Barro Negro Vase from Lama Oaxaca, Mexico, 1960s
Pottery
Brass & Glass Mosaic Water Pitcher by Salvador Teran, Mexico 1960's
By Salvador Teran
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Introducing the exquisite Brass & Glass Mosaic Water Pitcher by Salvador Teran, a stunning piece hailing from Mexico's vibrant 1960s era. Crafted with utmost precision, this pitcher ...
Brass
$6,000Sale Price|20% Off
Rare Cocobolo Don Shoemaker Fountain, Organic Mexican Mid-Century Modern, 1960s
By Don S. Shoemaker
Located in San Diego, CA
Exceptional one of a kind organic midcentury Mexican modernist fountain designed by Don Shoemaker. Don Shoemaker fountain is made of Cocobolo wood which is similar to rosewood and...
Cocobolo
$600Sale Price|20% Off
1960's J.G Casas Modernist Abstract Figural Wood Carved Sculpture Mexican Artist
By Don S. Shoemaker
Located in San Diego, CA
We are offering a wonderful hand carved wood figural sculpture by Mexican artist, J.G. Casas, circa 1960's. The sculpture has the original JOM Calidad, Mexico tag on the bottom. Grea...
Wood
1960's Mexican Thunderbird Zapotec Carpet with Modern Style
Located in Dallas, TX
Handwoven wool. Made in Mexico. Measures: 03'11 x 06'05. Date: 1960's. Mid-20th Century.
Wool
$675 / set
2 Mexican Brass Boxes, 1960s
By Taxco
Located in Delft, NL
2 Mexican brass boxes, 1960s Two Mexican brass lidded boxes with one in relief Amethyst stones 2 Rectangular boxes with hinged lid, marked with Mexico, raised on 4 round ball feet. ...
Amethyst, Brass
Mexican Box, c. 1960s
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1960, We offer this beautiful mid century Mexican box. Made in wood and stone.
Stone
Gilt Wrought Iron With Fused Amber Glass Insert, Mexico 1960's
Located in New York, NY
Gilt iron end table with an amber slag glass medallion in its center
Wrought Iron
1960s Tin Mexican Folk Art Mask Vintage Mid-Century Face w/ Nose Ring
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A wonderful and more uncommon Mexican folk art mask design. It is stamped, MEXICO on hang tab.
Tin
1960s Sterling Silver Drop Earrings Taxco Mexico
By Taxco
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1960s Ribbed Sterling Silver Dangle Earrings Mexican 1.13 w x 2 h x .38 Preowned vintage Stamped Refer to images
Sterling Silver
Tonala Folk Art Pottery Oval Platter Signed, Mexico, circa 1960's
By Ken Edwards
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage Large Folk Art Tonala Sandstone Pottery Oval Platter with Bird and Flowers Signed J.C. Mex. Tonala Folk Art pottery plate hand painted with bird and flowers, Mexico, circa 19...
Pottery
1960s Taller Maya Mixed Metal Modernist Necklace, Mexico
By Taller Maya
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The piece retains its original hallmark: “Maya” and “Mexico” Measurement: Length: 16.50 in (41.9 cm) This necklace is an excellent example of mid-20th-century Mexican modernist jew...
Brass, Copper
Tonala Folk Art Pottery Plate Hand Painted with Birds, Mexico, circa 1960's
By Ken Edwards
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Handcrafted Ken Edwards ceramic plate Tonala Mexico Folk Art Pottery. Vintage Ken Edwards Mexican ceramic birds and flowers from Tonala Pottery. Beautiful vintage Mexican hand made...
Ceramic
1960s Sterling Silver Spiral Maze Ring Taxco Mexico
By Taxco
Located in Chula Vista, CA
AMBIANIC presents MCM Stacked Sterling Silver Spiral Maze Ring Taxco Mexico size 7 1/4 1 L X .88 diameter exterior Preowned vintage wear condition Refer to images please
Sterling Silver
1960s Artisan Earrings Copper Blue Enamel Taxco Mexico
By Taxco
Located in Chula Vista, CA
AMBIANIC presents 1960s Copper Blue Earrings artisan Taxco Mexico .88 x 1 x .63 D Original preowned condition Refer to images
Copper, Enamel
1960s MCM Abstract Artwork Oil Painting Mexico City
By Leonardo Nierman
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, a 1960s mid-century modern abstract painting Mexico City.
Gold Leaf
1960s Patinated Silverplate Heart Basket Taxco Mexico
By Los Castillo, Taxco
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1960s Mexican Silverplated Patinated Basket in the style of Los Castillo Taxco Mexico. Stamped underneath with foundry stamp. 9 h x 4.75 diameter x 5 w Patinated vintage original un...
Silver Plate
$1,627Sale Price|25% Off
Don S. Shoemaker Sling Folding Armchair, 1960s Mexico
By Don S. Shoemaker, Senal
Located in San Pedro Garza Garcia, Nuevo Leon
Original design by Don S. Shoemaker, made in Santa María de Guido, Michoacán, Méx. This armchair is being offered without the leather, but it was professionally restored to bring out...
Wood
1960s Taxco Mexico Abstract Fish Malachite Sterling Silver Pin
By Los Castillo
Located in Chula Vista, CA
AMBIANIC presents 1960s Taxco Mexico Abstract Stylized Fish Malachite Sterling Silver Pin Brooch stamped 2.13 h x 1.75 w x .26 Preowned vintage condition Refer to photos for details
Malachite, Silver
1960s Arne Norell Leather “Mexico” Lounge Chair
By Arne Norell
Located in Turners Falls, MA
1960’s Arne Norell “Mexico” lounge chair. Button tufted high quality original Red Buffalo leather. Very comfortable and beautifully designed. Produced by Norell Mobel AB, Sweden.
Leather
12 Mexican 925 Sterling Silver Fish Sipper Straws Mid-Century Drink Stir 1960s
By Taxco
Located in Hyattsville, MD
This wonderful set of 12 mid-century vintage sterling silver sipper straws. Made in Mexico by TAXCO and feature a curling fish twisting up the straws to create the spoon form. The s...
Sterling Silver
1960s Mexican Modernism Vibrant Oil Painting Abstract Original Art
By Pedro Coronel
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1960s Mexico Modernism Vintage Abstract Oil Painting signed initials K A in the lower righthand corner. Oil on plywood 25.25 w x 32.5 x 1 d frame is .5 thick facing front Original vi...
Paint, Wood
$4,200 / set
1960s Arturo Pani Bronze Side Tables Mexico City
By Arturo Pani
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1960s Arturo Pani modern side tables Mexico City. aluminum and bronze. Unmarked. Measures: 21.63 tall x 20.25 x 20.5 and 20.5 tall x 22 x 22 Square tables include the original bevele...
Aluminum, Bronze
Tonala Mexico Large Decorative Tile Wall Decor, 1960s
By Tonala Pottery, Ken Edwards
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Large square ceramic wall decor or tile features hand-painted Folk Art style decor with charming detailed motif of two white birds standing next to large flowering plants and red gra...
Ceramic, Pottery
1960s Long Line Lacquer & Wood Credenza Monterrey Mexico
By Eugenio Escudero
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, a 1960s sleek modern line credenza Monterrey Mexico two tone lacquer & wood Restored by Ambianic lacquered top off-white with gold leaf accent. Five doors fin...
Gold Leaf
1960s Modernist Fish Handcrafted Wood Bottle Opener Mexico
By William Spratling
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1960s Modern Fish Handcrafted Wood Bottle Opener Unmarked 6.25 w x 1.75 tall x 1.5 Preowned vintage condition unrestored. See all images.
Wood
Los Castillo Taxco Malachite & Silver Plate Bird Pitcher, Mexico 1960s
By Los Castillo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Depth: 4.75 in. Origin Taxco, Mexico 1960s Materials Silver Plate Malachite Inlay Maker Los Castillo Style Mexican Modern / Mid-Century Modern
Malachite, Silver, Silver Plate, Copper
Los Castillo Taxco Malachite & Silver Plate Bird Pitcher, Mexico 1960s
By Los Castillo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A striking example of Mexican Modernism and Taxco silversmithing, this exceptional mid-century water pitcher was designed and manufactured by the renowned Los Castillo workshop in Ta...
Malachite, Silver, Silver Plate, Copper
$520Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage Aztec Inspired Sterling Silver Brooch/Pendant, Mexico, 1960s
By Salvador Teran
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage Aztec god of death Miclantecuhtli inspired pendant/brooch in sterling silver. Marked: FV México, Sterling 925.
Silver
1960s Speckled Blue 15 Enamelware Plates Camping Dinnerware Mexico
Located in Chula Vista, CA
MCM 1960s set of fifteen (15) enamel dining plates. enamelware speckled blue and silver Made in Mexico 1.25 tall x 10.25 in diameter. Original Preowned condition. See images please.
Enamel
Pair of 1960's Vintage Mexican Folk Art Terracotta Head Face Planter Plant Pots
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
We are delighted to offer for sale this rare and collectable pair of Mexican circa 1960’s hand painted terracotta larger planter pots A very good looking well made and decorative ...
Terracotta
1960s Modernist Cone Table Lamp Mahogany Bronze Mexico
By Luis Barragan
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1960s Mexican Modernism Custom Cone Shaped Table Lamp Handmade Mexico Mahogany Wood and Bronze 23.5 h x 6 diameter at widest Original Preowned Vintage Unrestored Condition. Lamp shad...
Bronze
1960s Mexican Artist Rodolfo Nieto Abstract Oil Painting Morton Label
By Rodolfo Nieto
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1960s Mexican Artist Rodolfo Nieto Abstract Oil Painting on Board Retains Morton label 32W x 27.25 H x .25 thick Original Unrestored Vintage preowned condition. Please review our ima...
Paint
1960s Excello Industrial Metal Floor Lamp Wood Wrap Mexico
By Eugenio Escudero
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Floor lamp 1960s Industrial Modern Mexican vintage metal floor lamp in a dynamic Wood Wrap design. Maker Stamped EXCELLO. 61 tall x 13 diameter inches Design features four exposed bu...
Metal
1960s Arturo Pani Bronze Marble Cocktail Table Mexico City
By Arturo Pani
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Mexico 1960s spectacular round tiered cocktail table bronze and marble Arturo Pani No label present, attribution Arturo Pani. Bronze and steel frame with clean modern lines. Sculptu...
Marble, Brass, Bronze, Steel
Los Castillo Taxco Malachite Inlay Silver Plate Catchall Tray, Mexico 1960s
By Los Castillo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Charming mid-century silver-plated decorative tray with malachite inlay designed and manufactured by the renowned Los Castillo silversmith workshop in Taxco, Mexico, circa 1960s.
Malachite, Silver, Silver Plate, Brass
$4,160Sale Price / set|37% Off
Don Shoemaker Sling "Swinger" Chair and Ottoman, Mexico 1960s
By Don S. Shoemaker
Located in Camden, ME
A Classic 20th century chair and ottoman from one of the great craftsman's workshops of Mexico: Senal, S.A., Don Shoemaker's tropical paradise in Michoacan, Mexico. This iconic chai...
Leather, Cocobolo
1960s Mexican Modernist Pin Malachite and Silver
By Taxco
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Mexican Modernist Pin Malachite and Silver 2 1/16 diameter x .25 d Preowned vintage Refer to listed images
Malachite, Sterling Silver
1960s Mexican Modern Glass Wall Art Sculpture with Bronze Figurines
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Wall Sculpture 1960s Mexican Modern Wall Art Abstract Sculpture with Figures crafted in Bronze and Glass. 13 3/4" H x 33 1/2" x 1 1/2" D, Art 29 3/8" x 9 5/8" H Original Unrestored V...
Bronze
1960s Sculptural Mahogany Wall Mirror Eugenio Escudero Mexico City
By Eugenio Escudero
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Mexican Modern Sculptural Mahogany Wall Mirror Made in Mexico circa the 1960s. Attributed Eugenio Escudero Unmarked 29.5 h x 49.75 w x 5 Wood in original vintage condition. Sun fad...
Glass, Mirror, Mahogany
1960s MCM Mexican Salvador Terán Female Mosaic & Brass Tray or Wall Hanging
By Evelyn & Jerome Ackerman, Salvador Teran
Located in St. Louis, MO
Salvador Terán (1920-1974) Mid-Century Modern glass & brass mosaic tray or wall hanging from his atelier "Salvador" in Mexico City, Mexico, circa 1965. Female mosaic in blue glas...
Brass
$479Sale Price|20% Off
1960's Sky Blue New Mexico Chimayo Rug from Ortega’s Weaving Shop
By Navajo
Located in Dallas, TX
Measures: 01'08 x 03'03. Date: 1960s. Mid-20th Century.
Wool
Brutalist Sconce by Felipe Delfinger (Derflingher) for Feders, Mexico, 1960s
By Felipe Derflingher
Located in San Antonio, TX
This Mexican mid-century modernist sconce is high-quality in construction with thick glass and assorted colors that are encased in iron.
Metal
1960s Gold Black Goblet Table Lamps Marble Base Mexico
By Roberto and Mito Block
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Table lamps Mexican Modernism 1960s Striking table lamp pair Modern black and gold goblet on round marble base Unmarked Style of Roberto and Mito Block 16 tall to socket x 8.5 in dia...
Marble, Brass
$120Sale Price|20% Off
1960s Mexican Artisan Two Tone Grande Sculptural Silver-Plated Fork
By William Spratling
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Artisan two tone sculptural silver plated fork Mexico 1960s In the style of William Spratling Silverware Dimensions: 10 L x 1.75 W x 1.5 Unrestored preowned vintage condition and pre...
Silver Plate
Tonala Mexico Bird Jar with Lid, Signed Hand-painted 1960s
By Ken Edwards, Tonala Pottery
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Ceramic cylinder-shaped jar features Folk Art style decor with highly detailed floral motifs and garlands, repeating on both front and back sides of the jar. The lid is decorated wit...
Ceramic, Pottery
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.
Modern icons are showing up in gracefully layered dining nooks, living rooms and lounges — proof that great design only gets better with context.
With its grid-like doors and wavy trim, the 1940s design feels as fresh as ever.
The alluring pendant light exemplifies the designer’s winsome mid-career work.
Prehistoric motifs give the mid-century Italian fireplace an elemental feel.
Their charming solid-oak pieces offer homes utility and comfort.
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You know the designs, now get the stories about how they came to be.
Designer Susan Yeley turned to 1stDibs to outfit an Indiana home with standout pieces that complement its modernist style.