Las Vegas Showgirl Mid-Century Bronze Sculpture, 1950´s
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
Las vegas showgirl mid-century bronze sculpture. 1950´s Show girl / can can dancer mid-century dancer sculpture.
Bronze
Retro Mid-century Style Black Ceramic Ashtray With Las Vegas Sign & Stand
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This stylish mid-century-inspired black ceramic ashtray features the iconic "Welcome to Fabulous Las Vegas" sign in a diamond-shaped ashtray. The chrome stand offers a cigarette hold...
Chrome
Castaways Hotel Las Vegas Glass Ashtray
Located in Bradenton, FL
A yellow tinted glass ashtray from The Castaways Hotel, a hotel and casino in Paradise, Las Vegas, Nevada. The center is printed with a green circle branded with the Castaways logo. ...
Glass
Sands Hotel Las Vegas Glass Ashtray
Located in Bradenton, FL
A clear glass ashtray from the Sands Hotel, in Las Vegas, Nevada. The center is printed with their logo in red text against yellow and reads “A Place In The Sun, Sands, A Hughes Hote...
Glass
Castaways Hotel Las Vegas Glass Ashtray
Located in Bradenton, FL
A gray tinted glass ashtray from The Castaways Hotel, a hotel and casino in Paradise, Las Vegas, Nevada. The center is printed with a green circle branded with the Castaways logo. Th...
Glass
Castaways Hotel Las Vegas Black & Gold Glass Ashtray
Located in Bradenton, FL
A black glass ashtray from The Castaways Hotel, a hotel and casino in Paradise, Las Vegas, Nevada. The lip is printed with the Castaways logo. The hotel, permanently closed in 1987, ...
Glass
Las Vegas Hotel Glass Ashtrays - Set of 2
Located in Bradenton, FL
A set of two Las Vegas hotel ashtrays from The Sands and The Thunderbird Hotel. Both in excellent condition. Dimensions per ashtray.
Glass
1960 United Airlines - Las Vegas Original Vintage Poster
By Stan Galli
Located in Winchester, GB
With artwork from the great poster designer and illustrator Stan Galli, this stunning and rare poster from 1960 promotes United Airlines routes to Las Vegas. Depicting a couple sunba...
Paper
Castaways Hotel Las Vegas Glass Ashtrays - a Pair
Located in Bradenton, FL
A pair of yellow tinted glass ashtrays from The Castaways Hotel, a hotel and casino in Paradise, Las Vegas, Nevada. The center is printed with a green circle branded with the Castawa...
Glass
Castaways Hotel Las Vegas Glass Ashtrays - a Pair
Located in Bradenton, FL
A pair of gray tinted glass ashtrays from The Castaways Hotel, a hotel and casino in Paradise, Las Vegas, Nevada. The center is printed with a green circle branded with the Castaways...
Glass
Collection of Eleven Vintage Las Vegas Casino Ashtrays
Located in San Diego, CA
A very cool collection of eleven glass vintage Las Vegas casino ashtrays circa 1970s. All of the ashtrays are in very good vintage condition with no chips or cracks and clear, crisp ...
Glass
Las Vegas Casino Glass Ashtrays - Set of 4
Located in Bradenton, FL
A set of four glass ashtrays from the Las Vegas casinos Stardust, Sam's Town and The Golden Nugget. All in excellent condition. Dimensions per ashtray.
Glass
Golden Nugget Casino of Las Vegas Black Glass Ashtray
Located in Bradenton, FL
A black glass ashtray from the Golden Nugget Gambling Hall in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. Printed around the outside with the brand logo in white.
Glass
Vintage Set of Fifteen Las Vegas $1 Poker Chips
Located in San Diego, CA
A really cool vintage set of Las Vegas casino $1 poker chips, circa late 1900s. The chips are 1.5"D and in very good overall condition. The set includes a chip from the following ca...
Bakelite, Plastic
Vintage Set of Thirteen Las Vegas $1 Poker Chips
Located in San Diego, CA
A really cool vintage set of Las Vegas casino $1 poker chips, circa late 20th century. The chips are 1.5"D and in very good overall condition. The set includes a chip from the follo...
Plastic, Bakelite
Castaways Hotel Las Vegas Black & Gold Glass Ashtrays - a Pair
Located in Bradenton, FL
A pair of black glass ashtrays from The Castaways Hotel, a hotel and casino in Paradise, Las Vegas, Nevada. The lip is printed with the Castaways logo. The hotel, permanently closed ...
Glass
TWA Las Vegas 1950s Airline Travel Advertising Poster, David Klein
Located in Bath, Somerset
Las Vegas was an ideal subject, perfectly suited to the bright, modern and slightly theatrical style of post-war airline promotion.
Linen, Paper
$280Sale Price / set|20% Off
Set of Four Vintage Las Vegas Showgirls Figurative High Ball / Cocktail Glasses
Located in San Diego, CA
Super rare set of four vintage Las Vegas "Showgirls" figurative high ball / cocktail glasses, circa 1970s. Each glass has three nude showgirls 3-dimensionally impressed in the glass....
Glass
Poker roulette craps Las Vegas Gaming themed cocktail glasses with ice bucket
Located in Ferndale, MI
Set of eight glasses with matching ice bucket . All are embelished with game of chance images . Poker roulette , chess , dominos , craps , chuck a luck are all displayed. Large wh...
Glass
Mid-Century Modern Art Glass Dice Cocktail Glasses, Pair, Circa 1970s
Located in San Diego, CA
Perfect for a vintage bar, Las Vegas–inspired interior, or Mid-Century Modern entertaining set.
Art Glass
Mid Century Modern Polished Stainless Steel and Glass Dining Table
Located in Culver City, CA
Acquired from the home of an architect and interior designer in Las Vegas—read: people with very good taste and absolutely no patience for mediocrity—this polished stainless steel di...
Stainless Steel
Mid-century "Drinker" Pink Flamingo Ceramic Tabletop Sculpture Will George
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Mid-century pink and green ceramic flamingo tabletop statue by Will George. It features a beautifully detailed pink flamingo with highly detailed, lush leaves and a grass base. The f...
Porcelain
Mid 20th Century Mosaic Art ~Birds of Paradise~ Full Length Floor Mirror
By Evelyn & Jerome Ackerman
Located in Las Vegas, NV
An enormous mosaic art framed floor mirror by the artist Marjorie “Midgi” Rappaport . Measures 6 feet tall X 8 feet wide. Marjorie was married to Robert Rice, Beverley Hills jeweler...
Art Glass
Rare Mid-century Ceramic Pink Flamingo Flower Table Planter Signed Will-George
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Mid-century pink and green ceramic flamingo tabletop California art pottery planter, signed Will-George. The planter features a beautifully detailed pink flamingo that sits directly ...
Ceramic
Organic Modern Cast Bronze Bowl Sculpture with Fish Design by John Forsythe
Located in Topeka, KS
Fabulous organic modern bronze fishbowl sculpture by John Forsythe comprised of cast bronze with golden bronze and green patination. Gorgeous vintage condition with no outstanding fl...
Bronze
Colonial Painted Folk Art Canopy Bed, Ex. Collection of Estee Lauder
Located in Las Vegas, NV
This is an extraordinary Folk Art painted post bed from the American southwest, circa 1830-1840. A rare size unique Folk Art form identified as from early Germanic settlements of Tex...
Wood
Golden Nugget Black Glass Ashtrays - a Pair
Located in Bradenton, FL
A pair of black glass ashtrays from the Golden Nugget Gambling Hall in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. Printed around the outside with the brand logo in white. Dimensions per ashtray.
Glass
Gae Aulenti Jumbo Coffee Table, Arabescato Marble, Knoll, 1960's
By Gae Aulenti, Knoll
Located in Culver City, CA
The home was a true design time capsule ~ a who’s-who of mid-century and post-war European and American modernism that featured exceptional works by Knoll, Stendig, and other design ...
Marble
'Ocean's 11' Original Vintage U.S. Insert Movie Poster, 1960
Located in Devon, GB
Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Sammy Davis Jr. ooze effortless cool as they stroll down the Las Vegas strip on this scarce US insert poster for seminal 1960 heist movie ‘Ocean’s 11’....
Paper
$55,860Sale Price|30% Off
RENE PORTOCARRERO 1952 Art Jarron Con Flores Ink And Gouache Ink On Paper
By René Portocarrero
Located in Miami, FL
Jarron Con Flores, ink on paper by Rene Portocarrero (1912-1985). This wonderful drawing made by Rene Portocarrero, is one of the few that survive from his artistic period of the 1...
Paper
Modernist Sculpture Coffee Table after Carlo Mollino Arabesque in Sculpted Iron
By Carlo Mollino
Located in Las Vegas, NV
From the showroom of Barneys New York to your living room, this massive sculpted iron and white enamel coffee table designed after the Carlo Mollino's 1949 "Arabesque" table. 3rd li...
Enamel, Iron
Important Silver Plate Champagne Bucket or Ice Bucket from Jack E. Leonard 1971
By F.B. Rogers Silver Co.
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A large silverplate champagne bucket or ice bucket which was given to Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme by Gladys & Jack Leonard. Jack Leonard was a well-known actor and comedian in the...
Silver Plate
$156Sale Price|52% Off
Vintage Soda Siphon Seltzer Glass Bottle with Metal Mesh
Located in New Orleans, LA
circa 1960s Gorgeous bar accessory as seen in many movies from that time period, (think) Palm Springs, Las Vegas, (the rat pack)…. so very cool! Just place it on your bar for the...
Chrome
$945Sale Price|62% Off
Signed Vintage Seriagraph by Dietrich Grunewald
By Dietrich Grunewald
Located in Redding, CT
Dietrich's fine art career crystallized during the 1960's (mid century modern) enabling him to flourish independently for the rest of his life.
Canvas, Wood, Paint
$600Sale Price|20% Off
Bruno of Hollywood B & W Original Nude Photograph Woman with Flowers, Framed
By Bruno Bernard (Bernard of Hollywood)
Located in Palm Springs, CA
A beautiful mid century modern nude by photographerBruno Bernard aka Bruno of Hollywood.
Paper
$1,487Sale Price|50% Off
Claude Victor Boeltz Golden Crystal French 1970s Table Sculpture
By Claude Victor Boeltz
Located in New York, NY
A French 1970s Gold and bronze clam shell center peice sculpture with three large quartz and amethyst crystal clusters. Signed Biography: Claude Boeltz was born in Paris in 1937. T...
Rock Crystal, Gold, Bronze
$2,580Sale Price|25% Off
White Bunny Drawing by Oleg Cassini for Playboy October 1979, Signed
By Oleg Cassini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Cassini’s brother Igor coined the term “the Jet Set” for this generation that constantly flew from New York to Los Angeles (then a ten-hour flight), Las Vegas, Paris, Rome, and the R...
Paper
Unavailable|$1,900
Mid-Century Modern Large Brass Sculpture Sands Casino Logo
Located in LAS VEGAS, NV
This beautiful Mid-Century Modern brass sculpture was sourced from the Sands Hotel and Casino.
Brass
Midcentury Las Vegas Strip Neon Bail Bonds Sign Art
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Large, old Las Vegas strip neon sign from the midcentury. Centered by red neon letters spelling Bail Bonds. The frame is constructed from wood covered with zinc sheet metal. There ar...
Metal
1950s Las Vegas Blvd Camera Store Neon Sign *Saturday Sale**
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Vintage 1950 double sided neon sign patterned after a 3-A autographic Kodak Jr folding camera, the sign comes complete with all neon, original paint and a light up flash on top. ...
Restored Mid Century Sahara Low Boy Dresser Credenza
Located in Las Vegas, NV
This is a mid century modern low dresser credenza from Kent Coffey’s Tableau collection .
Walnut
10ft Vintage Mid-Century Sofa/End Table Combination Designed by Florence Knoll
By Florence Knoll
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Authentic early sofa and end table designed by Florence Knoll in the mid 1950s. It features a steel frame with eight square, tubular legs and an attached walnut table with glass top...
Metal
4 Culver Glasses & 8 Dessert Plates by Dana Oldfather for Ink Dish Plus Extras
By Culver Ltd.
Located in Topeka, KS
Magnificent vintage MCM or Mid-Century Modern to Modern dishware set including 4 Culver LTD highball glasses with 22 carat gold textured details, 8 dessert or salad plates with 2 dif...
Gold
1960 United Airlines, New York Original Vintage Poster
By Stan Galli
Located in Winchester, GB
With artwork from the great poster designer and illustrator Stan Galli, this stunning and rare poster from 1960 promotes United Airlines routes to Las Vegas. Depicting the Statue of ...
Paper
Pair of Christopher Guy Harrison, Dining Chairs
By Christopher Guy Harrison
Located in Kingston, NY
Christopher Guy Harrison (British, 1960-2020). Pair of dining chairs. Christopher Guy Harrison was born in Britain, raised in Spain and France. He drew on his international backgroun...
Leather, Wood
California Pottery Flamingo Statues signed Will-George
By Will George
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Handmade Flamingo Statues signed by California Potter "Will-George", circa 1940. This set includes two statues Dimensions: 1. flamingo H 10 in x W 4 in x D 3 in. 2. flamingo H 7....
Pottery
Beatles Portraits Set Original Vintage 1964 Posters Framed Nicholas Volpe
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
4 professionally Framed 1964 Nicholas Volpe Beatles Portrait Posters in very good condition. Each picture is 16 x 20.5 inches framed under glass. The Fab Four are John Lennon Paul ...
Glass, Wood, Paper
1970s Neal Small "Slopes" Art Sculpture Mirror
By Neal Small
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Large sculpture mirror by Neal Small circa 1970s. Not a reproduction. From an old Las Vegas estate. Photos in this listing taken on ground facing up to blue sky. It is multi-face...
Rare 1947 Art Pottery Pink Flamingo Cigarette Box & Ashtray Signed Will-George
Located in Van Nuys, CA
Very rare 1947 California art pottery pink flamingo cigarette box with lid & matching Ashtray. Both pieces are signed "Will-George". The set features a box made up of decorative,...
Ceramic
Red, Black & White Bunnies, Set of 3, Oleg Cassini, Playboy October 1979, Signed
By Oleg Cassini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Cassini’s brother Igor coined the term “the Jet Set” for this generation that constantly flew from New York to Los Angeles (then a ten-hour flight), Las Vegas, Paris, Rome, and the R...
Paper
Sold|$9,995 / set
Custom Mystical Bronze King Bed and Two Nightstands by John Forsythe
Located in Topeka, KS
Breathtaking custom mystical bronze standard king size bed and two matching nightstands by John Forsythe titled Dream short for Mid-Summer Night’s Dream. Comprised of cast bronze; wa...
Limestone, Marble, Copper, Steel, Bronze
Castaways Hotel Las Vegas Glass Ashtray
Located in Bradenton, FL
A yellow tinted glass ashtray from The Castaways Hotel, a hotel and casino in Paradise, Las Vegas, Nevada. The center is printed with a green circle branded with the Castaways logo. ...
Glass
Castaways Hotel Las Vegas Black & Gold Glass Ashtray
Located in Bradenton, FL
A black glass ashtray from The Castaways Hotel, a hotel and casino in Paradise, Las Vegas, Nevada. The lip is printed with the Castaways logo. The hotel, permanently closed in 1987, ...
Glass
Las Vegas Hotel Glass Ashtrays - Set of 2
Located in Bradenton, FL
A set of two Las Vegas hotel ashtrays from The Sands and The Thunderbird Hotel. Both in excellent condition. Dimensions per ashtray.
Glass
Moroccan Inspired Chandelier from the Sahara Hotel Las Vegas
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A very grand and unique Moroccan inspired chandelier from the Sahara Hotel Las Vegas Brilliant jeweled glass details with large and extravagant Moroccan features trimmed in gold -...
Brass
Golden Nugget Casino of Las Vegas Black Glass Ashtray
Located in Bradenton, FL
A black glass ashtray from the Golden Nugget Gambling Hall in Downtown Las Vegas, Nevada. Printed around the outside with the brand logo in white.
Glass
Vintage Riviera Las Vegas Dino's Den Delmonico Black Glass Ashtray 1950s
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Mid Century Modern style 1950's glass ashtray or trinket dish from DINO'S DEN Delmonico RIVIERA Hotel & Casino.
Glass
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.