Mid Century Modern Wall Unit With Desk

Floating Mid Century Wall Cabinet

Mid Century Drop Down Desk

Bedroom Storage Wall Unit

Midcentury Modern Drop Down Cabinet

Mid Century Drawers And Shelves

Midcentury Danish Modern Wall Unit

Materials

Brass

$4,800

Mid Century Danish Modern Wall Unit with Shelves & Cabinets with Desk in Teak

Located in Philadelphia, PA

A large Scandinavian wall unit circa 1960's. It features teak wood finish with a drop down center desk. The unit is totally modular and can arranged to your liking. It also includes ...

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Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Shelves

Materials

Teak

Sculptural Modular Library Wall Unit Desk Gerald McCabe Mid Century Modern

$5,340

Sculptural Modular Library Wall Unit Desk Gerald McCabe Mid Century Modern

By Gerald McCabe

Located in Chula Vista, CA

For your consideration, stunning sculptural modular library wall unit and desk system is attributed to the celebrated Los Angeles craftsman and designer, Gerald McCabe.

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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Cabinets

Materials

Wood

$1,825

Mid-Century Modern teak highboard wall unit byTurnidge of London

Located in Bishop's Stortford, GB

Mid-Century Modern teak highboard wall unit dating from the 1960s by British manufacturer Turnidge of London.

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Vintage 1960s British Mid-Century Modern Cabinets

Materials

Teak

Gerald McCabe Barzilay Wall Unit, Sold by Component

Price Upon Request

Gerald McCabe Barzilay Wall Unit, Sold by Component

By Gerald McCabe

Located in Los Angeles, CA

This is a nine bay Barzilay wall unit by Gerald McCabe of Los Angeles. Oiled walnut with aluminum detail in great condition. We have a variety of cabinets, shelves, and desk componen...

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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Shelves and Wall Cabinets

Materials

Aluminum

Mid century Danish rosewood wall unit by Kai Kristiansen FM, with desk & light

$3,570

$13,520

$16,640 / item

Office Desk in Walnut Stainless Steel Frame by Bodil Kjaer 1959 for Karakter

By Bodil Kjaer

Located in Barcelona, Barcelona

Office Desk by Bodil Kjaer 1959 Coveted by renowned modernist architects Marcel Breuer, José Luis Sert and Paul Rudolph, Danish architect Bodil Kjær's Office Desk from 1959 has been ...

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2010s Danish Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

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Stainless Steel

1960 Retro Pilastro Tomado shelving Grey Metal Desk Unit with Drawer and Shelf

By Tjerk Reijenga, Tomado

Located in Markington, GB

A stylish 1960s Pilastro Tomado shelving desk unit designed by Tjerk Reijenga for Tomado in Holland. This compact retro desk unit features a grey metal construction with an integrat...

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Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Shelves

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Ceramic

Unavailable

H 14 in W 57.5 in D 54 in

Modular 5600 Series Desk / Bookcase by Andre Cordemeijer for Gispen

By A.R. Cordemeijer

Located in New York, NY

Modular bookcase / desk wall unit in painted steel from the 5600 series designed Andre Cordemeijer for Gispen in 1962, as an update on the earlier 663 system by Wim Rietveld. This un...

Materials

Brass

Wall System or Unit by Tjerk Reijenga for Pilastro, Dutch Design 1955

Unavailable

H 68.9 in W 96.46 in D 17.72 in

Wall System or Unit by Tjerk Reijenga for Pilastro, Dutch Design 1955

Located in Lijnden, Noord-Holland

Wall system by Tjerk Reijenga for Pilastro, Dutch design 1955. Beautiful Industrial Dutch wall system from the 1950s by Tjerk Reijenga for Pilastro. Pilastro Furniture was star...

Materials

Brass

Mid-Century Modern Wall Unit

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Teak 3 Section Wall Unit with Bookshelves, Glass Curio Cabinet, 2 Storage Cabinets and Built in Desk.

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Vintage 1960s Danish Shelves

Materials

Teak, Glass

Midentury Rosewood Wall-Unit Including Table, Desk, Curio Cabinet and Light

Sold

H 84 in W 96 in

Midentury Rosewood Wall-Unit Including Table, Desk, Curio Cabinet and Light

Located in Stamford, CT

A Mid-Century Modern wall unit with lighted bar as well as an over head light and 42 inches wide by 32 inches deep dining table using two leaves that converts to desk when the leaves...

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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Shelves and Wall Cabinets

Large Mid Century Danish HG Teak Wood Modular Wall Unit Shelving & Bookcase

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H 78.5 in W 107.5 in D 16.25 in

Large Mid Century Danish HG Teak Wood Modular Wall Unit Shelving & Bookcase

By Hansen & Guldborg Møbler

Located in Detroit, MI

This vintage mid century Danish modern Hansen & Guldborg modular teak wood wall unit shelving system and bookcase was made in Denmark circa 1960.

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Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Shelves and Wall Cabinets

Materials

Metal

Mid-Century Modern Hans Wegner Danish Teak Bookshelves Wall Unit with Desk 1960s

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H 81.5 in W 41.5 in D 19.25 in

Mid-Century Modern Hans Wegner Danish Teak Bookshelves Wall Unit with Desk 1960s

By Hans J. Wegner

Located in Keego Harbor, MI

For your consideration is an incredible pair of adjustable bookshelves with desk compartment, made of teak, made in Denmark, by Hans Wegner, circa 1960s. In good vintage condition. T...

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Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Shelves

Materials

Teak

$2,080

H 30.71 in W 47.25 in D 24.81 in

Mid-Century Modern Italian Writing Desk, 1960s

Located in Puglia, Puglia

Italian desk from the 1960s, restored and shellac polished. Note the brass handles and feet, the green glass top with original period adhesive paper underneath and the black painted ...

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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Desks

Materials

Brass, Iron

$3,250

H 29.5 in W 55 in D 29.5 in

1960s Danish Modern Teak Partners Desk with Drop-Down Bar & Bookcase Back

Located in North Hollywood, CA

This remarkable Danish Mid-Century Modern executive desk showcases the best of Scandinavian craft and functional elegance. Built from rich, warm teak with vibrant grain, the desk fea...

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Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Teak

Mid-Century Modern Wall Unit by Vittorio Dassi, Italy, 1960s

$3,930

H 78.75 in W 98.43 in D 16.54 in

Mid-Century Modern Wall Unit by Vittorio Dassi, Italy, 1960s

By Vittorio Dassi

Located in Brussels, BE

Mid-Century Modern wall unit by Vittorio Dassi, Italy, 1960s.

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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Shelves

Materials

Wood

Italian Modernist Cupboard with Fold-Out Desk, Maple, 1960s. This Italian sideb

$5,431

H 41.34 in W 78.75 in D 15.75 in

Italian Modernist Cupboard with Fold-Out Desk, Maple, 1960s. This Italian sideb

Located in Kaštel Sućurac, HR

Italian Modernist Cupboard with Fold-Out Desk, Maple, 1960s. This Italian sideboard is built from maple and poplar veneer over solid frameworks, combining open shelving, drawer unit...

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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Cupboards

Materials

Brass

Desk Made In Teak Designed By Omann Junior From 1960s

$2,074

H 27.96 in W 61.03 in D 31.11 in

Desk Made In Teak Designed By Omann Junior From 1960s

By Omann Jun Møbelfabrik

Located in Lejre, DK

The desk in teak, designed by Omann Junior in the 1960s, is a prominent example of Danish furniture design from that time. With its characteristic teak wood design, the desk radiate...

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Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

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Teak

Italian Midcentury Presidential Executive Table Desk designed by Vittorio Dassi

$11,555

H 31.5 in W 79.53 in D 37.01 in

Italian Midcentury Presidential Executive Table Desk designed by Vittorio Dassi

By Vittorio Dassi

Located in Traversetolo, IT

Majestic Italian Midcentury Presidential Desk designed by Vittorio Dassi in 1950s, givenits large and rare dimensions , can be assumed that it was designed on special commission, the...

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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Desks

Materials

Brass

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$1,163

H 66.54 in W 17.72 in D 26.97 in

1930s English Art Deco Oak Dressing Table with Full Length Triple Mirror

Located in Leicester, GB

A beautifully simple 1930s Art Deco triple dressing mirror / vanity from England. This vanity has a single deep drawer of solid oak with simple oak wood drawer handles. Above is a la...

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Vintage 1930s English Art Deco Floor Mirrors and Full-Length Mirrors

Materials

Oak

Paper Table Lamp

$550 / item

H 19.7 in Dm 11.8 in

Paper Table Lamp

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Paper Table Lamp is a delicate lamp made of fibres from mulberry bark, which gives the material an irregular structure. This makes each lamp unique, something that adds to its charac...

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2010s Philippine Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Papercord

Mid century style Ceiling Suspended Mirror with Bronze Patina Frame, Vintage N.4

$5,349 / item

H 42.01 in W 25.99 in D 1.19 in

Mid century style Ceiling Suspended Mirror with Bronze Patina Frame, Vintage N.4

By Alguacil & Perkoff Ltd.

Located in London, London

Mid-century style Vintage N.4 ceiling suspended mirror with a high quality pure brass full frame with a bronze patina finish. This piece is part of our original and fully customisabl...

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2010s British Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors

Materials

Brass, Bronze

Italian Art Deco Console Table, Vellum & Palisander, 1940

$7,500

H 31.25 in W 42.5 in D 17 in

Italian Art Deco Console Table, Vellum & Palisander, 1940

Located in New York, NY

An Italian Art Deco console table with two upper shelves in vellum supported by a rectangular base in palisander wood with square cut-outs. The central back column and angled base a...

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Vintage 1940s Italian Art Deco Console Tables

Materials

Wood, Palisander, Parchment Paper

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Mid Century Modern Wall Unit With Desk For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the mid century modern wall unit with desk you’re looking for. Each mid century modern wall unit with desk for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using wood, metal and hardwood. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect mid century modern wall unit with desk — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 20th Century are available. A mid century modern wall unit with desk is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Mid-Century Modern and Scandinavian Modern styles are sought with frequency. Pilastro, Tjerk Reijenga and Nils Nisse Strinning each produced at least one beautiful mid century modern wall unit with desk that is worth considering.

How Much is a Mid Century Modern Wall Unit With Desk?

A mid century modern wall unit with desk can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $3,750, while the lowest priced sells for $720 and the highest can go for as much as $21,500.

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.

Finding the Right Case Pieces And Storage Cabinets for You

Of all the vintage storage cabinets and antique case pieces that have become popular in modern interiors over the years, dressers, credenzas and cabinets have long been home staples, perfect for routine storage or protection of personal items.

In the mid-19th century, cabinetmakers would mimic styles originating in the Louis XIV, Louis XV and Louis XVI eras for their dressers, bookshelves and other structures, and, later, simpler, streamlined wood designs allowed these “case pieces” or “case goods” — any furnishing that is unupholstered and has some semblance of a storage component — to blend into the background of any interior.

Mid-century modern furniture enthusiasts will cite the tall modular wall units crafted in teak and other sought-after woods of the era by the likes of George Nelson, Poul Cadovius and Finn Juhl. For these highly customizable furnishings, designers of the day delivered an alternative to big, heavy bookcases by considering the use of space — and, in particular, walls — in new and innovative ways. Mid-century modern credenzas, which, long and low, evolved from tables that were built as early as the 14th century in Italy, typically have no legs or very short legs and have grown in popularity as an alluring storage option over time.

Although the name immediately invokes images of clothing, dressers were initially created in Europe for a much different purpose. This furnishing was initially a flat-surfaced, low-profile side table equipped with a few drawers — a common fixture used to dress and prepare meats in English kitchens throughout the Tudor period. The drawers served as perfect utensil storage. It wasn’t until the design made its way to North America that it became enlarged and equipped with enough space to hold clothing and cosmetics. The very history of case pieces is a testament to their versatility and well-earned place in any room.

In the spirit of positioning your case goods center stage, decluttering can now be design-minded.

A contemporary case piece with open shelving and painted wood details can prove functional as a storage unit as easily as it can a room divider. Alternatively, apothecary cabinets are charming case goods similar in size to early dressers or commodes but with uniquely sized shelving and (often numerous) drawers.

Whether you’re seeking a playful sideboard that features colored glass and metal details, an antique Italian hand-carved storage cabinet or a glass-door vitrine to store and show off your collectibles, there are options for you on 1stDibs.

The Ultimate Guide to Types of Tables for the Home

Whether you’re just moving in or ready to give your home a makeover, our guide will give you pointers on tables that are fitting for every room, nook and hallway.