Midcentury Fabric Dining Chairs
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Upholstery, Wood
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Beech
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Beech, Fabric, Wood
20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Upholstery, Wood
Vintage 1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Chrome
Vintage 1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Wood, Beech, Fabric
Vintage 1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Walnut
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Beech, Fabric, Wood
Vintage 1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Upholstery, Oak
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Beech
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Beech
Vintage 1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood
Vintage 1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood
Late 20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Beech
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wool, Beech
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Beech
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Beech
Vintage 1950s Czech Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Plywood
Vintage 1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Oak, Fabric
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Upholstery, Wood
Mid-20th Century Slovakian Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Beech, Bentwood
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Beech
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Fabric, Wood
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Fabric, Cherry
Vintage 1950s Slovakian Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Beech, Lacquer
Vintage 1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Plywood
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Metal
Vintage 1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Metal
Mid-20th Century Czech Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Beech, Bentwood, Plywood, Fabric, Wood
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Teak
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood, Teak
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Teak
Vintage 1930s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Walnut
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Teak
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Metal
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Teak
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Metal
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Teak, Fabric
Vintage 1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Foam, Jute, Birch
Vintage 1960s European Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wenge
Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric
Vintage 1970s Dining Room Chairs
Metal
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Brass
Vintage 1960s Polish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Chrome
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Teak, Fabric
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood
Mid-20th Century European Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Beech
21st Century and Contemporary Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Dining Room ...
Brass
Vintage 1960s European Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Mahogany
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Metal
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Wood
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Oak
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Fabric, Walnut
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Midcentury Fabric Dining Chairs For Sale on 1stDibs
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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 American 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.
Postwar American architects and designers were animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist “International Style” architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the ’30s 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, respectively, pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair. George Nelson and his design team created Bubble lamp shades using a new translucent polymer skin. Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were re-purposed: the Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs that used surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests. The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by legendary manufacturer Knoll, a chief influence 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.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century 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, blonde-wood furniture — and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
Finding the Right Dining Room Chairs for You
No matter what your dream dining experience looks like, there is a wide-ranging variety of vintage, new and antique dining room chairs on 1stDibs. Find upholstered dining room chairs, wood dining room chairs and more to outfit any space designated for a good meal, be it in your home or in the great outdoors.
In the early 18th century, most dining room tables and other furniture was designed to look masculine. In America, dining rooms weren’t even much of a concept until the late 1700s, when a space set aside specifically for dining became a part of the construction of homes for the wealthy. Dining room chairs of the era were likely made of walnut or oak. In Europe, neoclassical dining chairs emerged during the 1750s owing to nostalgia for classical antiquity, while the curving chair crests of Queen Anne furniture in the United States preceded the artistically bold seat backs that characterized the Chippendale chairs that followed. If there weren't enough dining chairs at suppertime in the American colonies, men were prioritized and women stood.
In the dining rooms of today, however, there is enough space for everyone to have a seat at the table. Modern styles introduce innovative design choices that play with shape and style. Icons of mid-century modern dining room chairs are plentiful: With its distinctive bentwood back, there is the DCW dining chair by Charles and Ray Eames, while Hans Wegner's timeless classic, the Wishbone chair, remains relevant and elegant decades after its debut. Stefano Giovannoni's White Rabbit dining chairs, in their lovable polyethylene biomorphism, reinvent what dining can look like.
Today's wide range of dining room chairs also means that they can now be styled in different ways, bringing functionality and fun to any sumptuous dining space. No longer do tables have to be accompanied by a matching set of seats. Skillfully mixing and matching colors and designs allows you to showcase your personality without sacrificing the cohesion of a given space.
By furnishing your dining room with cozy chairs — vintage, antique or otherwise — family time can extend far beyond mealtime. The plush upholstery of Victorian-style dining room chairs is perfect for game nights that stretch from dinner to midnight snack. Outdoor tables and dining chairs can also present an excellent opportunity for bonding and eating — what goes better with a delicious meal than fresh air, anyway?
Whether you prefer your chairs streamlined and stackable or ornate and one of a kind, the offerings on 1stDibs will elevate your mealtime and beyond.
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