Vintage Illuminated Glass Clock from Halux, Germany, 1950s
By Halux
Located in Esbjerg, DK
- Illuminated electrical wall or table clock manufactured by Halux in Flensburg, Germany - It was for the Danish newspaper Jyske Vestkysten - Only 8 examples were made for the news...
Steel
Rare Peter Pepper Productions Ceramic Wall Hanging Weather Station Clock Mobile
By Peter Pepper Products
Located in Troy, MI
Exceptionally rare hanging weather station sculpture by Peter Pepper Products Circa 1950s Three multi color matte glaze ceramic globes featuring a thermometer, clock and barometer ...
Metal
$266Sale Price|44% Off
Brutalist Candle Sconce by Syroco, Mid-century Modern Wall Sculpture
By Syroco
Located in Warrenton, OR
Brutalist Candle Sconce by Syroco, Mid-century Modern Wall Sculpture. ***NOTE: Our 1stDibs store is closing soon and items will not be available thereafter.*** Vintage Syroco Wall...
Other
Hand-Painted Persistence of Memory, Mid-Century Modern Art
Located in Queens, NY
Copy of painting by Salvador Dali titled, "Persistence of Memory" Showing melting clocks in landscape
Paint
$1,080Sale Price|77% Off
Higgins Studio Fused Art Glass Modern Hanging Planter or Wall Pocket, Signed
By Francis Higgins, Michael and Frances Higgins, Higgins Glass, Michael Higgins
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Higgins Studio Art Glass Modernist Fused glass hanging planter or wall pocket, signed. 20th Century signed 'Higgins Studio.' dimensions: 37 x 7 inches. Unique Michael and Francis Hig...
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass
Christoph Bollinger kinetic wall sculpture Germany 1974
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Monumental sized kinetic wall art sculpture designed and made by Christoph Bollinger in his own workshop in Germany, 1974. This amazing sculpture is not only impressive by its size b...
Metal, Copper
Vintage Teak Weather Station by Barigo, Germany, 1960s
Located in Esbjerg, DK
A stylish and sleek wall or table weather station with thermometer, barometer and hygrometer. Designed and made in Germany during the 1960'erne by Barigo. Measurements: W: 17.5 cm,...
Acrylic, Teak
Pair of Solid wood Wall Shelves and Brackets
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A great pair of wooden wall mounted brackets. The pieces are hand tooled and have a half circle on top. In the photo are a pair of our monkey candlesticks. The pair work anywhere ...
Maple
1950's Seagram's Gin Advertising Electric Clock Old Stock New In Box
Located in San Diego, CA
A very rare 1950's plastic box with aluminium face electric clock with illuminated martini cup , we have 4 available new old stock a very rare find beautiful piece for a mancave or s...
Metal
"Timewarp" continuously changing wall-mounted artwork.
By Jan Paul
Located in Maastricht, NL
"TIMEWARP" continuously changing wall-mounted artwork. A large, wall-mounted, artwork that also tells the time if you look closely. Every minute: one, two , three or four numbers c...
Aluminum
Fabulous Curtis Jere French Chateau Sculptural Wall Hanging
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Pemberton, NJ
FABULOUS SIGNED CURTIS JERE FRENCH CHATEAU WALL SCULPTURE. I LOVE THE DETAIL GIVEN TO THIS AMAZING WALL SCULPTURE WITH THE FLOWERS ON THE BALCONY TO THE BIRD SITTING ON THE OPEN DOO...
Mid-Century George Nelson Lucite Grandfather Clock by Howard Miller Company
Located in Wichita, KS
Rare George Nelson Lucite Grandfather Clock made by Howard Miller Company. A masterpiece of Mid-Century Modern design.
Metal
Hoke Wood Products Walnut Brass Beveled Glass Boat Shaped Mirrors - a Pair
By Hoke Wood Products
Located in Forest Grove, PA
A pair of walnut and brass boat shaped mirrors with beveled glass by the Hoke Wood Products Company. The tends of the mirrors are 20.5” wide. Professionally restored, the mirrors are...
Brass
Large French Walnut Brass Wall Sculpture Clock
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern French Deco style wall clock sculpture.
Brass
Large Antique Italian Micro Mosaic plaque of St. Peters Square, Rome mid 1800's
By Vatican Mosaic Studio
Located in New York, NY
These paintings sum up the eighteenth-century canon of the greatest works of architecture and sculpture, and the equivalence between modern and ancient Rome.
Glass
1988 David Hockney Original Exhibition Malcolm Bradford Hall Los Angeles
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
1988 David Hockney Original Exhibition Malcolm Bradford Hall Los Angeles Vintage 1988 David Hockney Out-of-Print, limited edition Lithograph. Published in Yorkshire, UK. This Pop A...
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Poster Tower Of London Sabena Airlines Midcentury Design
By Gaston van den Eynde
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for London by Sabena Belgian Airlines featuring a fantastic and colourful mid-century modern design depicting a Beefeater / Yeoman Warder h...
Paper
$1,360 / item
Carl Auböck Model #4629 'Stufenuhr' Brass Wall Clock
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Carl Auböck Model #4629 'Stufenuhr' Brass Wall Clock Originally designed in the late 1960s by Carl Auböck III, this incredibly refined and sculptural Viennese wall clock is executed...
Brass
Vintage Orig Metallic Painting by O. E. L. Graves Extremely Rare Collectible
By O.E.L. Graves
Located in Palm Springs, CA
We are so proud to offer this original work of art by legendary Palm Springs artist O. E. L. Graves. We discovered his work when we first purchased a second home here in 1997. His wo...
Metal
Jon Gilmore Square Frame Golden Disco Mirror
By Jim Gilmore
Located in Hanover, MA
Square wall mirror in half round molded edge frame which is clad with slim tessellated strips of clinquant gold acrylic mirror tiles giving it a shimmering sparkly disco mirror ball ...
Mirror
CHICAGO - FLY TWA Authentic Original Vintage Airline Travel Poster DAVID KLEIN
By David Klein
Located in Chicago, IL
CHICAGO - FLY TWA Authentic original vintage airline travel poster Artist: David Klein Condition: A/A- Dimensions: 25.2 x 39.8 in. / 64 x 101 cm. Circa: 1960s Linen Backed There is ...
Paper
Original Vintage Midcentury British European Airways Poster for Business Abroad
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for British European Airways - Business Abroad In Half The Time BEA Takes You There And Brings You Back - featuring a colourful mid-century...
Paper
Side Coffee Table w/ a Working Street Wall Clock Top Storage Compartment Base
By Howard Miller
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Side Coffee Table w/ a Working Street Wall Clock Top Storage Compartment Base
Oak
MCM King Size Bookcase Headboard by Sligh Furniture Cross Country Line in Black
By Sligh Furniture
Located in Topeka, KS
High quality construction, iconic reputation, versatility, and a marvelous Mid-Century Modern aesthetic you are sure to love for YEARS to come!!!
Wood, Paint
Vintage MCM Dresser by Sligh Furniture Cross Country Line Black Painted Frame
By Sligh Furniture
Located in Topeka, KS
It exudes an exquisite Mid-Century Modern presence that will blend in beautifully with almost ANY style décor.
Wood, Paint
Vintage MCM Desk by Sligh Furniture Cross Country Line with Black Painted Frame
By Sligh Furniture
Located in Topeka, KS
It exudes an exquisite Mid-Century Modern presence that will blend in beautifully with almost ANY style décor.
Wood, Paint
Fornasetti Tema e Variazioni Plate No. 89, Lina Cavalieri, Circa 1980
By Piero Fornasetti
Located in Downingtown, PA
This porcelain plate is number 89 in Piero Fornasetti’s Tema e Variazioni, the series he built across his career from a single borrowed face, that of the opera singer Lina Cavalieri....
Porcelain
Polished brass floor lamp in the style of Robert Mathieu, France circa 1950
By Robert Mathieu
Located in Paris, FR
Large adjustable and swiveling floor lamp in polished brass, with a modern cotton drum shade, identical to the original. The light arm slides and pivots inside a sphere, which slides...
Brass
CURTIS JERE 1970 Monumental Skyscraper Table Lamp In Polished Chromed Steel
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Miami, FL
A monumental skyscraper table lamp designed by Curtis Jere. This is a fabulous monumental skyscraper table lamps created in America during the modernist period by the designer Curti...
Steel, Chrome
$457Sale Price|20% Off
SCHEURICH RED 70s FAT LAVA FLOOR VASE West Germany 1970s marked 284-47
By Scheurich Keramik
Located in Landshut, BY
a striking RED FAT LAVA FLOOR VASE no. 284-47 by SCHEURICH Scheurich originated from a joint venture initiated in 1928 by Alois Scheurich and his cousin Fridolin Greulich in the sma...
Pottery
CURTIS JERE 1970 Monumental Skyscraper Table Lamps In Polished Chromed Steel
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Miami, FL
Pair of monumental skyscraper table lamps designed by Curtis Jere. These are a fabulous pair of monumental skyscraper table lamps created in America during the modernist period by t...
Bronze, Steel, Chrome
Orrefors Crystal Votive Candle Holder by Lars Hellsten, Sweden, 1970s
By Lars Hellsten, Orrefors
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Orrefors Sweden Crystal by Lars Hellsten circa 1970s. The Swedish crystal bowl designed by sculptor Lars Hellsten for Orrefors, marked with needle-etched Orrefors at the base. Thick-...
Crystal
Ceramic Table Night , Art Nouveau , 1905 , Fabric: Galluba & Hofmann, Sign: GH
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
In 1904 the first Jansen branch outside Paris was established in Buenos Aires, as the Argentinean clientele demanded a large amount of furniture, from the end of the 19th century to ...
Ceramic
Beautiful elegant heavy Mid Century Kienzle wall clock made of bronze and brass
By Kienzle Clocks
Located in München, DE
Beautiful, very elegant and heavy 1960s Kienzle wall clock made of bronze and brass. Made in Germany. Very nice, typically minimalist Mid Century Kienzle design. With battery-opera...
Brass, Bronze
Midcentury Kienzle Wall Clockc
Located in Vienna, AT
Brass construction with antique pink painted clock face from the early 1950s. Original mechanical movement but it can be changed to AAA-battery movement on request. Delivery time a...
Brass
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.
Antique, new and vintage wall clocks have become available over the years in a diverse range of materials, such as wood, metal and glass, as well as styles from mid-century modern to Industrial.
Wall clocks have been designed by acclaimed creators and manufacturers such as Howard Miller Clock Company, Junghans Uhren GmbH, Pragotron and more. The Ball clock and Sunflower clock, which were created by designer Irving Harper in George Nelson’s studio during the mid-century era, are known to design enthusiasts and have become highly collectible over the years.
Whether you want an antique timepiece or one that will match a modern motif, you are sure to find one to suit any home or office decor.
The wall clocks of today have come a long way from the mechanical timepieces that originated in the 14th century. One of the most famous clocks from this era was made by Italian astronomer and physician Giovanni de’ Dondi and took approximately 16 years to complete. By the 17th century, wall clocks were popular luxury objects for the home.
Wall clock choices are not limited to just something that keeps time. A 19th-century bronze cartel clock and barometer set is an elegant addition to a foyer, while a vintage world-map clock allows you to see the time in several locations at once. Cleverly designed clocks have been created for all manner of tastes over the years.
On 1stDibs, you will find wall clocks and other types of antique and vintage clocks from various time periods, from Louis XV to Art Deco, and from all over the world, including Germany, France, the United Kingdom and elsewhere. Bring a touch of class and personality into your living room or dining room with a unique timepiece.
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