$1,850
H 33.75 in W 23.5 in D 21 in
Tony Paul Portable Bar / Serving Cart with Lift Off Top Tray, On Casters
By Tony Paul
Located in Kansas City, MO
Tony Paul bar / serving cart in very good original condition. Wrought iron frame with birch lower shelf and removable birch upper shelf / platter. Very few signs of use. Ready to use.
Steel, Iron
American of Martinsville Mid-Century Modern Bar Cart or Serving Cart
By American of Martinsville
Located in Las Vegas, NV
A Mid-century modern bar cart by American of Martinsville, featuring a warm walnut-toned case, sculpted recessed drawer pulls, brass supports, and original rolling casters.
Brass
$5,289
H 30.32 in W 20.48 in D 20.48 in
Jamaica Portable Bar Design Eugenio Gerli for Tecno 1965 Style Bar Cart
By Eugenio Gerli
Located in taranto, IT
Wonderful and rare bar and card play openable cart , in all equal to the "jamaica" eugenio gerli one, perhaps more beautuful, if this is possible. Make in wood on wheels, it has bot...
Brass
Portable Round POOL Bar in Solid Brass Midcentury Italian Design
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Portable round pool bar in solid brass midcentury Italian design.
Bamboo
$1,763
H 19.69 in Dm 18.12 in
Portable Bar in Perforated White Curved Metal French Design Midcentury, 1950s
By Mathieu Matégot
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Portable bar in perforated white curved metal French design midcentury, 1950s.
Metal
$2,585
H 15.75 in W 14.97 in D 14.97 in
Crocodile Bar Portable Italian Design 1970s Brass Lucite Brown Magazine Rack
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Faux Crocodile bar portable Italian design 1970s brass Lucite brown magazine rack.
Brass
$1,763
H 17.72 in Dm 19.69 in
Portable round bar in steel and black laminate Giuliana Gramigna for Krups 1960
By Giuliana Gramigna
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Portable round bar in steel and black laminate Giuliana Gramigna for Krups 1960
Steel
$408Sale Price / set|48% Off
H 9 in W 21 in D 9.75 in
Mid Century Italian Regency Portable Metal Bar Caddy with accessories
Located in Cincinnati, OH
Mid Century Italian Regency Portable Metal Bar Caddy with accessories Glass on back of caddy 6 - tumblers 1 - shot glass 1 - ice bucket with lid 1 - tongs 3 - labeled decanters - Bou...
Metal, Enamel
Classic Mid-Century Modern Portable Rolling Fold Out Bar Cart
Located in Buffalo, NY
Classic Mid-Century Modern portable rolling fold out bar cart.
Laminate, Walnut
Bamboo Portable Bar, France, 1960s
By Adrien Audoux and Frida Minnet, Vivai del Sud
Located in SOTTEVILLE-LÈS-ROUEN, FR
A refined portable bar crafted in bamboo, produced in France in the 1960s. Both sculptural and functional, this piece reflects the period’s enduring fascination with organic materi...
Bamboo
Portable Bar Giuliana Gramigna for Krups 1970 Steel
By Giuliana Gramigna
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Portable bar Giuliana Gramigna for Krups 1970 steel.
Steel
Midcentury Curved Bamboo Portable Bar Italian Design 1950s
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Midcentury curved bamboo portable bar Italian Design 1950s.
Bamboo
American Mid Century Walnut Portable Chess set 1970's
Located in San Diego, CA
american solid walnut portable chess set elegant in walnut cherry and birch woods nice and clean.
Birch, Walnut
$1,763 / item
H 19.69 in Dm 19.69 in
"Palmiro" by Gramigna Sergio Mazza for Arthur Krupp Design 1970s Portable Bar
By Sergio Mazza, Giuliana Gramigna, Arthur Krupp
Located in Brescia, IT
"Palmiro" by Giuliana Gramigna and Sergio Mazza for Arthur Krupp, 1971. Steel portable bar Excellent condition.
Steel
$452Sale Price|51% Off
H 10.24 in W 9.85 in D 9.85 in
Portable Bar in Faux Turtle and Brass Italian Design 1970 Dior Gold
By Dior Home
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Portable Bar in Faux Turtle and brass Italian Design 1970 Dior.
Brass
$995
H 14.5 in W 12.5 in D 8.25 in
Midcentury Walnut and Brass Decorated Hinged Portable Wine Cellarette
Located in Germantown, MD
An exquisite midcentury Walnut and Brass Decorated Portable 6-bottle Wine Cellarette that will make a distintive decoration piece in your dinning room. . Features a world map on top ...
Brass
1950s Zenith Brown Bakelite Portable Radio Nonworking
By Zenith
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Vintage Zenith portable radio 9 h x 14.5 w x 8.75 Bakelite cover with rubber handle. Original knobs. Minos scuffs present. Tested and not working. Review images listed.
Bakelite
Portable Painted Brass Ashtray with bamboo, circa 1950s
Located in Wien, AT
Portable Painted Brass Ashtray with bamboo, circa 1950s Original condition
Brass
$156Sale Price|20% Off
H 6 in W 10.25 in D 1.75 in
Portable Game Set Chess Checkers Backgammon and more with World Globe Case
Located in New York, NY
A portable travel game set in a world globe covered case, circa mid-20th century, 1960s. Games include chess, checkers, backgammon, playing cards (1 deck/poker), dominos, and 'Fox an...
Metal
Rare Op Art Portable Recod Player with Flashing Multi-colored Lights
By Jay Kelly
Located in Buffalo, NY
WORKING Perfectly... visually stunning rare example of collectible audio history with a killer groovy design! AC powered "DeJay" brand portable monual record player in excellent co...
Fabric, Plastic, Wood
$65
H 6 in W 13.5 in D 9.5 in
Vintage Mickey Mouse Walt Disney Blue White Portable Record Player GE Turntable
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage General Electric Blue & White Mickey Mouse Walt Disney 1970's Portable Record Player Turntable in Carrying Case. Circa Late 20th Century. Measurements: 6" H x 13.5" W x 9...
Plastic
$55
H 6 in W 13.5 in D 9.5 in
Vintage Mickey Mouse Walt Disney Blue Portable Record Player GE Turntable (B)
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage General Electric Blue & White Mickey Mouse Walt Disney 1970's Portable Record Player Turntable in Carrying Case (B). Circa Late 20th Century. Measurements: 6" H x 13.5" W...
Plastic
$1,410
H 0.99 in W 3.94 in D 3.94 in
Portable Box Italian Tobacco Pouch in Enamel and Square Copper, 1950 Midcentury
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Portable box Italian Tobacco Pouch in enamel and square copper, 1950, midcentury. The upper part has a stylized and very elegant glaze, the box is in copper, the inside the bott...
Copper, Enamel
$940 / set
H 6.3 in Dm 4.34 in
Portable Ashtray Faux Leather and Steel Italian Pop Art Design 1970s Round Black
By Savinelli design
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Portable ashtray faux leather and steel Italian Pop Art design 1970s round black Single piece height cm.3.5, diameter cm.9.
Faux Leather
Midcentury Rosewood Dry Bar
Located in London, GB
Midcentury bar. Midcentury portable dry bar. Beautiful rosewood bar cube. Danish, circa 1960 Measures: 70.5 cm H, 86.5 cm W, 46 cm D.
Rosewood
Fantastic Musical Accordian Portable Bar
Located in Mount Penn, PA
In mint never used condition this portable bar in the shape of an accordion was made in the 1960s in Japan. You can wind the music box on the bottom of the accordian which will play ...
Fantastic Musical Piano Portable Bar
Located in Mount Penn, PA
A great piano shaped musical bar made in the 1960s in Japan. Comprised of a cast phenolic keys, burnished and black enameled brass. You can wind the music box with the key at the foo...
Unavailable
H 10.5 in W 10 in D 7 in
Mid-Century Catalin Bakelite Self-Contained Portable Record Player With Storage
Located in Dallas, TX
Mid Century Catalin Bakelite Self-Contained Portable Record Player With Storage, Circa 1945 Drum-shaped case with removable lids on top and bottom, original plastic carrying handle....
Steel
Antique SABA RCR 405 Portable Cassette Radio
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
SABA RCR 405 portable radio cassette. The device has a robust and functional design, with a rectangular structure in black and silver tones, accompanied by a top handle for easy tran...
Metal
Mid-Century Modern Expandable Portable Rolling Bar Cart Server
Located in West Hartford, CT
Expandable 1970s Mid-Century Modern Classic rolling bar cart. Its width expands from 42 inches to 60 inches when fully open at top.
Laminate, Wood
Portable, Expandable, Rosewood Bar Cart or Dry Bar
Located in Kansas City, MO
Made in Norway circa 1970s, this expandable rosewood bar cart has a durable black laminate top, rosewood exterior and interior and retains the two original keys which lock the cabine...
Brass
Sold
H 25.99 in W 18.9 in D 11.82 in
Midcentury Italian Design Solid Brass Portable Bar Pool Furniture
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Midcentury Italian design solid brass portable bar pool furniture.
Bamboo
Mid-Century Modern Nickel-Plated Rolling Service Bar Cart Trolley
By Arturo Pani
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your convenience a Mid Century Modern Designed Trolley Service Bar Cart Nickel Plated Material.
Nickel
Sold
H 28.35 in W 34.65 in D 17.33 in
1950s Elegant Mid-Century Modern Brass Wood and Glass Bar Cart by Cesare Lacca
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Catania, Sicilia
This is a mid-century modern bar cart designed by Cesare Lacca and manufactured in Italy in the 1950s.
Brass
Sold
H 38.5 in W 77.25 in D 21 in
Danish Rosewood Folding and Portable Bar by Niels Erik Glasdam Jensen
By Vantinge Møbelindustri, Niels Erik & Glasdam Jensen
Located in Palm Springs, CA
An amazing 1970s Danish rosewood folding portable bar by Danish designer Niels Erik Glasdam Jensen for Vantinge Møbelindustri. The bar is very elegant when opened and when closed up ...
Formica, Rosewood
Sold
H 28.88 in W 16.5 in D 17 in
Joe Colombo Red Boby 3 Portable Storage System for Bieffeplast, circa 1969
By Joe Colombo, Bieffeplast
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Joe Colombo Red Boby 3 Portable Storage System for Bieffeplast, circa 1969.
Plastic
Mid-Century Bonacina Bamboo Portable Bar Container, Italy 60s
By Bonacina
Located in Palermo, IT
Delightful portable bar container in woven bamboo cane. Two-level structure with large curved handle and compartment for four bottles. Attributable to Bonacina, Italian manufacture i...
Bamboo
Midcentury Italian Regency Portable Tabletop Bar Caddy
By Tommi Parzinger
Located in Buffalo, NY
Midcentury Italian Regency portable table bar. Decorative and functional featuring six tumblers and six shot glasses, one shot glass replaced. Also retains 3 original labeled decante...
Brass, Metal
Sold
H 2.75 in W 15.625 in L 2.75 in
Mid Century Carved Wood Full Size Portable Travel Chess Set Board & Pieces
Located in Dayton, OH
Vintage mid century wooden chess set and box / board. Box closed- 7.75" x 15.625" x 3.25"h, box open- 15.5" x 15.625" x 2.75"h.
Hardwood
1970's Mexican Mini Portable Dominos Game
Located in San Diego, CA
Great set of dominoes circa 1970's portable and small great for play and have fun.
Resin, Wood
1950s Bush Portable Transistor AM FM Radio
By RCA
Located in Chula Vista, CA
AMBIANIC presents 1950s Bush Transistor AM FM Radio The TR82 series of Bush radios have become a design classic. The design was by Ogle Design founded by David Ogle 1954. brand has e...
Metal
Sold
H 5.91 in W 11.42 in D 16.54 in
HMV Model 101 Red Portable Gramophone with accessories, super working phonograph
By His Masters Voice, HMV
Located in London, GB
The HMV Model 101 portable Gramophone was originally introduced in about 1925. It was, and is, still considered to be one of the best portable wind-up gramophones ever produced. Sup...
Faux Leather
Danish Modern Bar Cart
By Kurt Østervig
Located in Minneapolis, MN
Mid-Century teak Danish bar cart with removable bottom tray and sliding flip-top.
Teak, Laminate
Sold
H 19.69 in W 20.08 in D 11.82 in
Mid-Century Portable Bamboo Bar Italian Design Brown 1950 Swimming Pool
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Midcentury portable bamboo bar Italian design brown 1950 for Swimming Pool
Bamboo
Portable Bar Cart on Casters by Arthur Umanoff
By Arthur Umanoff
Located in Kansas City, MO
Bar Trolley by Arthur Umanoff. The sliding Masonite doors also have a white and blue side. This is a Fine example in original condition with restored door panels to give is a crisp c...
Brass, Wrought Iron
Stunning Portable Expandable Bar in Burl and Brass for Mastercraft
By Mastercraft
Located in Buffalo, NY
Stunning bar cart made by Mastercraft of burled Carpathian elm with brass fittings with a stylized Greek key motif. featuring rolling wheels also in brass for easy mobility. The bott...
Brass
Sold
H 28.5 in W 35 in D 21.25 in
Jamaica Portable Dry Bar on Casters by Eugenio Gerli for Tecno, 1960s
By Eugenio Gerli, Tecno
Located in Kansas City, MO
"Jamaica" dry bar / bar cart by Eugenio Gerli for Tecno. From what we can tell this may have never been used. The inside looks practically new. No signs of use or wear inside. We had...
Aluminum, Steel
Sold
H 0.5 in W 2.75 in D 1.5 in
Mid-Century Brass Portable Cigarette Pocket Ashtray with Inlay, 1950s
Located in Toronto, CA
This refined mid-century portable cigarette ashtray is crafted in solid brass and designed in a compact square form, ideal for pocket, travel, or handbag use.
Brass
Sold
H 36.03 in W 13.39 in D 16.15 in
Bar Portable Black Cube Red Combined Secrets Cabinet Italy Laminate Sottsass
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Bar portable black cube and red combined with secrets and extensions cabinet Italian design 1980. Laminate, Sottsass style . Open width cm.138, depth cm.80.
Laminate
Portable Ashtray by Auböck, 1950s
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Wien, AT
Portable ashtray by Auböck, 1950s. Original condition.
Brass
Portable ashtray by bosse around 1950s
By Herta Baller, Walter Bosse
Located in Wien, AT
Portable ashtray by bosse around 1950s Original condition
Brass
English 1930s Art Deco Walnut Portable Cocktail Cabinet
Located in Devon, England
This is a rare and wonderful opportunity to purchase a high end portable cocktail dry bar dating to the 1930's. A classy Art Deco figured walnut cabinet with highly figured veneers o...
Brass
Sold
H 5.91 in W 11.42 in D 16.54 in
HMV Portable Gramophone 101 with Accessories & Records, Super Working Phonograph
By HMV, His Masters Voice
Located in London, GB
HMV 'Standard Portable' Model 101 gramophone with No.4 soundbox, circa 1925. Manufacturer: His Master's Voice, UK Black Rexine leather-cloth, polished wood and chrome finished inter...
Faux Leather
Sold
H 5.91 in W 11.42 in D 16.54 in
Hmv Portable Gramophone 102, Super Condition. Incl. Set 6 Caruso Records
By HMV, His Masters Voice
Located in London, GB
HMV portable gramophone, Model 102, introduced 1931, this is an early model dating from circa 1932/3. Manufacturer: His Master's Voice, UK Red Rexine leather-cloth, red lacquer...
Faux Leather
Danish Teak Dry Bar on Castors
By CFC Silkeborg
Located in New York, NY
Vintage Teak Bar by CC Silkborg, 1960s This mid century bar is in excellent condition, and is 100% portable!
Teak
Portable Wind-Up Gramaphone
Located in Salisbury, GB
A portable wind up gramaphone in a faux crocodile skin case. By HMV, in good working order and condition, circa 1930.
Portable Tray Top Table, Fritz Hansen, Denmark, 1958
By Willumsen & Engholm, Fritz Hansen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Tray top table designed in 1958 by H. Engholm and Svend Willumsen for Fritz Hansen, Denmark. Beautifully aged teak offers subtle grain pattern and patina. Folding legs offer easy por...
Teak
1960s Light Beige Portable Radio by Dieter Rams, Made in Germany
By Dieter Rams, Otl Aicher, Braun
Located in Frankfurt, Hessen, DE
Portable radio T22, design made in Germany, original by Dieter Rams, 1960. This wonderful example of portable radio T 22 by Dieter Rams is made of synthetic material with the orig...
Leather, Synthetic
Weltron Portable Radio K7 with Speakers, circa 1970s in as New Condition
By Weltron
Located in Noorderwijk, BE
Rare opportunity to buy these items in 'as new' condition as they are no longer being manufactured. We bought the stereo and speakers from an audio dealer who was retiring and still ...
Plastic
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.