Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
MID-CENTURY MODERN STYLE
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
- Eames lounge chair
- Nelson daybed
- Florence Knoll sofa
- Egg chair
- Womb chair
- Noguchi coffee table
- Barcelona chair
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.
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Style: Mid-Century Modern
French Green Majolica Oyster Marcel Guillot, circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
French green Majolica oyster signed Marcel Guillot, circa 1950.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Mid-Century Modern Wall Plaque by Marianne Starck Denmark
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Amazing ceramic tile ‘Birds’ in reliëf by Marianne Starck. Beautiful art of work and in very good condition.
I have also a 40cm piece for sale.
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
French Mid-Century Majolica Blue Flower Plate Charolles
By Charolles
Located in Austin, TX
Small French Mid-Century Majolica Blue Flower Plate Charolles.
7 inches diameter.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
French Majolica Daisy Marcel Guillot Vallauris, circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica Daisy Marcel Guillot Vallauris, circa 1950.
8.2 inches diameter.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Large Textural Wall Panel by Aldo Guarnieri, Italy, 1971 — Unique Piece
Located in Bagnolo Mella, Brescia
Striking and sculptural textural wall panel created and signed by Italian artist Aldo Guarnieri in 1971. Executed in wood, pastel, and hand-painted enamel, the piece showcases a mast...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Plaster, Wood, Paint
Set of 3 Baobabs from Madagascar in Raffia, circa 2000
Located in Barcelona, ES
Set of 3 Baobabs from Madagascar in Raffia (2000)
This stunning set of 3 Baobabs made from raffia hails from Madagascar and was crafted in the year 2000. These sculptural pieces evo...
Category
Early 2000s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Raffia
$1,490 Sale Price
50% Off
Large French Mid-Century Majolica Blue Flower Plate Charolles
By Charolles
Located in Austin, TX
Large French Mid-Century Blue Flower Plate signed Charolles.
9 inches diameter.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Mid-Century Large Oval Majolica Palissy Fish & Lobster Platter Vallauris
By Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Large oval Majolica Palissy wall platter Vallauris, circa 1950.
Large fishes, lobster, seaweeds, shells.
From Provence.
Measures: Length / 22.5 inches on 9 inches, height / 2.5 inche...
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
7 Hand Painted & Signed by Wiinblad Porcelain Christmas Plates, Rosenthal, 1970s
Located in Andernach, DE
Bjorn Wiinblad, Danish artist, has created this beautiful series for German art glass & porcelain makers Rosenthal for their Studio-Line art edition.
Plates from 1975 with the Annunc...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
Rosenthal Studio Line Porcelain Plate by Björn Wiinblad 'Limited Edition'
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Stunning wall plaque by Bjorn
Wiinblad for Rosenthal. The plaque was produced in 1975 in an edition of 5000, and this one is number 1328.
The text on the plate is German ‘auch die...
Category
1970s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
Majolica Fish Sealife Platter Vallauris, circa 1950
By Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica sealife platter Vallauris, circa 1950.
High relief of a fish, seaweeds,starfish and oyster.
Nautical style.
7.3 inches diameter
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Early 1960s Teruo Hara Stoneware Wall Sculpture for Design Technics
By Teruo Hara
Located in Southampton, NJ
A rare, early 1960s stoneware Wall Sculpture by famed Japanese-American potter Teruo Hara for Design Technics. Signed on the lower right with Hara's TH chop mark along with the DT ch...
Category
1960s North American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Pottery, Stoneware, Walnut
Mid-Century Rare Ceramic Oyster Plate Robert Picault Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Rare oyster Plate signed Robert Picault.
Robert Picault (1919 - 2000) was born in Vincennes, Paris and studied at the School of Applied Arts in Paris. After the war he spent a short...
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Giovanni de Simone Colored Ceramic Fish Squared Tile Plate, Italy 1960s
Located in Rome, IT
Beautiful squared wall mounted tile plate in colored ceramic representing three fishes by the Italian artisti Giovanni De Simone.
Giovanni De Simone was a great Sicilian artist...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Terracotta, Pottery
Michelin Set of Original Tiles, circa 1960
Located in Barcelona, ES
Michelin Man Set of sixteen tiles.
By unknwon manufacturer from Spain, circa 1960.
In original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving a beautiful patina...
Category
1960s Spanish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
$1,043 Sale Price
50% Off
French Mid-Century Majolica Pink Flower Plate Charolles
By Charolles
Located in Austin, TX
Small French Mid-Century Majolica Pink Flower Plate Charolles.
7 inches diameter.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Diaz Costa Set of Three Ceramic Hand Painted Artwork, circa 1960
Located in Barcelona, ES
Ceramic hand painted artwork of a bird by Catalan artist Diaz Costa, circa 1960. Signed. In original condition, with minor wear consistent of age and use, preserving a beautiul p...
Category
1960s Spanish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
$804 Sale Price / item
50% Off
French Majolica Daisy Marcel Guillot Vallauris, circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica Daisy Marcel Guillot Vallauris, circa 1950.
8.2 inches diameter.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Maurice André Large Colored Wall Tapestry for Robert Four Edition
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
Maurice André - Robert Four edition
Large wool wall tapestry by Maruice André
Realised circa 1960 by Robert Four Studio
Original perfect condition
Original perfect colors...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Tapestry
Mid Century Watercolor Drawing, Industrial / Architectural Theme
Located in St Annes, Lancashire
A super watercolour by an unknown artist,
C.1960
Great colours.
On artists board
Unframed.
Free shipping
Category
1960s English Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Majolica Palissy Portuguese Crab Wall Platter, circa 1940
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica faience Palissy Portuguese crab platter circa 1940.
Decorated with mussels and shells,
Caldas da Rainha.
9.8 inches diameter.
Hairline on the back.
Category
1940s Portuguese Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Mid-Century Majolica Yellow Oyster Plate Vallauris
By Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Mid-Century Ceramic Yellow Oyster Plate Vallauris
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Pablo Picasso Style Stoneware Wall Hanging Tile decorated with a Dove
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
A beautiful hand painted and thickly glazed decorative wall tile by an unknown artist, influenced by the works of Pablo Picasso.
The wall plaque is decora...
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Stoneware
$467 Sale Price
20% Off
Staffordshire Bone China Silhouette Made in England, Set of 3, FREE SHIPPING
Located in Bochum, NRW
Set of 3 Staffordshire silhouette images framed on porcelain medallions (black gold), with black velvet background.
These beautiful Fine Bone China Frame Wall Art...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
$214 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Set of French Majolica Oyster Plates & Platter Marcel Guillot, circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
Rare set of 8 Majolica oysters plates and platter signed Marcel Guillot, circa 1950.
Very rare color.
platter 16.5 inches , 8 plates 9.5 inches diameter.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Petucco & Tolio, Nove, Impressive Italian Ceramic Vino Wall Plate, Retro, 1960s
Located in Rothley, Leicestershire
Impressive Petucco & Tolio, Nove, Italian ceramic vino wall art plate, superbly strong color palette and artwork
A very large and striking piece of Ita...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Framed Butterflies Artwork, circa 1960
Located in Barcelona, ES
Framed artwork made of butterflies. Made by unknown artist in Spain, circa 1960. In original condition, with minor wear consistent of age and use, preserving a beautiul patina. M...
Category
1960s Spanish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Fabric
$304 Sale Price
73% Off
Large Antique Chinese Fan Painted Entirely by Hand 1940 China Ducks Flower
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Large Antique Chinese fan Painted Entirely by Hand 1940 China Ducks Flower.
Category
1940s Chinese Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wood, Paper
$858 Sale Price
20% Off
Spanish Ceramic Decorative Wall Plate with Fishing Scene
Located in Barcelona, ES
Large Cubist Wall Plate or Wall Decoration
Colorful Spanish Mid-Century Modern Manises ceramic wall plate by Vicente Martinez, Spain, 1960s.
This wall plate features a cubist design mediterranean fishing...
Category
Mid-20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$98 Sale Price
44% Off
Aqua Majolica Oyster Plate Gien, circa 1950
By Gien
Located in Austin, TX
Majolica oyster plate signed Gien, circa 1950.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
French Green Majolica Oyster Marcel Guillot, circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
French green Majolica oyster signed Marcel Guillot, circa 1950.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
French Majolica Daisy Marcel Guillot Vallauris, circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
French Majolica Pansy Marcel Guillot Vallauris, circa 1950.
8.3 inches diameter.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience, Majolica
Charles Levier Painting "Clown Avec Un Oiseau"
Located in Miami, FL
A Captivating Vision: "Clown Avec Un Oiseau" by Charles Levier.
This striking oil on canvas painting, titled "Clown Avec Un Oiseau" (Clown with a Bird) in French, is a captivating...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paint, Wood
Raul Coronel "Jeweled Village" Ceramic Wall Plaque Art
By Raul Coronel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Raul Coronel "Jeweled Village" ceramic wall plaque Art.
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Wood, Walnut
Wall Decoration "Horses" by Hertha Baller Vienna Around 1950s
Located in Wien, AT
Wall decoration "horses" by hertha baller vienna around 1950s
Original condition.
Category
1950s Austrian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Brass
Diaz Costa Mid Century Modern Ceramic Hand Painted Artwork, circa 1960
Located in Barcelona, ES
Ceramic hand painted artwork of a fish by Catalan artist Diaz Costa, circa 1960. Framed. Signed. In original condition, with minor wear consistent of age and use, preserving a be...
Category
1960s Spanish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
$304 Sale Price
70% Off
Rare Unica Collection Dishes Gio Ponti Franco Pozzi 1960 27 Pieces Multicolor
By Gio Ponti
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Very rare collection of 27 pieces produced by Franco Pozzi Ceramiche based on a design by Gio Ponti.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Custom Framed Antique Fern Botanical Engravings - Set of Four
Located in Pearland, TX
Lovely custom framed 19th century botanical fern engravings from Prof. Dr. Otto Wilhelm Thome's "Flora von Deutschland", published in 1886. Thomé (1840–1925) was a famous German bota...
Category
1880s German Antique Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wood, Paper
Bing & Grondahl Modernist Green Tile Wall Art Piece, 1960s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Exceptional Danish Mid-Century Modern piece of ceramic artistry. Handmade wall plaque made of six glazed tiles (each 15x15 cm) in white, dark pine and forest green colors, all handpa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Wood, Oak
Mid Century Italian Enamel Art Panel, 1950s
Located in Meer, VAN
Mid century Enamel Art Panel, Italy, mid 20th century. This is a wonderful and very decorative piece of enamel art, made in mid century Italy. This panel features bold colors and...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel
1970s Wall Art Terracotta Tile Greek Horse Chariot Angelos Tsakirakis
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1970s Ceramic Wall Tile Art MCM Terracotta Greek Horse Chariot
Angelos Tsakirakis Greek War Horses Ceramic Art Tile
signed AT
4.25 h x 8.38 w x .5 d
Preowned original vintage
Review ...
Category
1970s Greek Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Terracotta
French Rattan Bamboo Fish Shaped Mirror, 1960s
Located in Barcelona, ES
Unusual handcrafted rattan bamboo fish figure wall mirror, France, 1950s.
Rare find.
This spectacular mirror has a design combining the Mid-century taste from the French Riviera with...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wicker, Cane, Rattan, Mirror
$2,003 Sale Price
20% Off
20th Century Italian Rectangular Mahogany Wall Glass Mirror by Paolo Buffa
By Paolo Buffa
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A light-brown, vintage Mid-Century Modern Italian wall mirror with its original mirror glass, enhanced by brass nailheads, designed by Paolo Buffa in good condition. The backside of ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Metal, Brass
Four Flying Swallows Birds wood Mid Century Wall Decoration Vintage, 1960s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
Set of four beautiful vintage wooden flying swallows wall decorations. Each would make a beautiful ornament on a wall. They are with some patina and are an excellent craftsmanship. M...
Category
1960s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Nutwood
Set of 38 ceramic tiles by Roger Capron, France - 1970s
By Roger Capron
Located in Berlin, DE
Set of 38 tiles by Roger Capron, France - 1970s.
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Art: Area ad featuring Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring & Andy Warhol
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Basquiat, Keith Haring, Andy Warhol Area 1985:
Rare original advertisement for a May 8, 1985 Art event at AREA. Features an enduring portrait of the who’s-who of the 1980’s New York ...
Category
1980s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Modernist Carved Wood Face Decorative Sculpture Panel, a pair
Located in Atlanta, GA
Superbly handcrafted pair of Mid-Century-Modern wooden wall art sculpture panels. The artworks feature dimensional female and male faces or mask wood relief with stylized shapes and ...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wood, Rattan
Set of 5 ceramic tiles by Roger Capron, France - 1970s
By Roger Capron
Located in Berlin, DE
Set of 5 tiles by Roger Capron, France - 1970s.
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Set of 12 ceramic tiles by Roger Capron, France - 1970s
By Roger Capron
Located in Berlin, DE
Set of 12 tiles by Roger Capron, France - 1970s.
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
1970's Signed Casa Devall Starburst Wall Sculpture
By Casa Devall
Located in Redding, CT
1970's Signed Casa Devall starburst wall sculpture. Quite a Glamourous statement piece . Mixed metal artwork is very in style right now. Similar to the style of Curtis Jere's starbur...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Metal, Brass
Vintage Alexander Calder lithograph (1970s Calder prints)
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Vintage early 1970s Alexander Calder off-set lithograph:
Published by Art in America, circa early 1970s.
Good to very good overall vintage condition. Printed signature from an editi...
Category
1970s North American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$200 Sale Price
20% Off
Painting by Peter Keil Mid-Century Modern Art, Black & White Art, C 1964, Signed
By Peter Keil
Located in New York, NY
Peter Robert Keil was born to an artist blacksmith father whom he lost very early in his childhood during the Second World War during the end phase of the war, Keil's mother, also an artistically talented woman, took her son and struggled her way to West Berlin...
Category
1960s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Acrylic
$2,950 Sale Price
34% Off
colorful vintage 17" gruenstadt ceramic PLATTER plate 1960s 70s fat lava
Located in Mannheim, DE
Outstanding large mid century ceramic plate in bright colors combined with a shimmering copper glaze and black fat lava glaze. Manufactured by Grünstadt Keramik, 1960s to 1970s. Incl...
Category
1960s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Curtis Jere Wall Sculpture
Located in Queens, NY
Curtis Jere Wall Sculpture
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Metal
Mid-Century West German Pottery WGP Wall Plate from Dümler & Breiden, 1960s
Located in Hamburg, DE
Mid-Century West German Pottery WGP Wall Plate from Dümler & Breiden, 1960s, in Very Good conditions. Designed 1960 to 1969 This piece has an attribution mark.
Additional informatio...
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20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Large Etched Copper Wall Plate by Valentien 1960's
Located in London, GB
Large etched copper wall Plate by Valentien 1960's. The abstract pattern is applied by hand and radiated from the centre like a flower.
Category
1960s European Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Copper
Los Castillo E.Alvarado Arquitectura Mosaic with Montezuma Mexico, 1959
By Alvarado, Los Castillo
Located in Camden, ME
An E. Alvarado 1959 mosaic wall panel commissioned at the Taxco showroom of Los Castillo Plateros depicting the 1467 reconstruction of the temple of Huitzilopochtii after its damage ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Amethyst, Carnelian, Lapis Lazuli, Malachite, Multi-gemstone, Opal, Tour...
Set of 17 ceramic tiles by Roger Capron, France - 1970s
By Roger Capron
Located in Berlin, DE
Set of 17 tiles by Roger Capron, France - 1970s.
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Jaime Hayon & Nani Marquina 'Nani x Hayon' Wall Tapestry
Located in Tilburg, NL
Jaime Hayon & Nani Marquina 'Nani x Hayon' wall tapestry
Hayon x Nani, size 120x130, comes with wall hanging solution made with fabric sleeves sewn to the top back of the rug.
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
Mid-century Modern decorative art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Mid-Century Modern decorative art for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage decorative art created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include wall decorations, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, decorative objects and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, ceramic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Mid-Century Modern decorative art made in a specific country, there are Europe, North America, and United States pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original decorative art, popular names associated with this style include Robert Picault, Curtis Jeré, Vallauris, and Daniel Clesse. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for decorative art differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $50 and tops out at $406,322 while the average work can sell for $1,323.