Portable Record Player, Mid-20th Century.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Portable record player, mid-20th century. Portable record player, untested, mid-20th century, sold as-is.
Wood
Mid Century Radio And Record Player Console Cabinet
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A period Mid Century Stereo Cabinet with an interesting contrast door pattern with Oval grid inserts. Three sliding doors, one on the front track with the remaining two doors sitting...
Other
ViNTAGE MID CENTURY MODERN FLAMED HARDWOOD RECORD PLAYER MEDIA CABINET
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely vintage circa 1970’s Flamed Mahogany record player cabinet that can also be used as a drinks cab...
Hardwood
Mid-Century Modern Panasonic Stereo Console Record Player in Walnut Cabinet
By Panasonic
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Ideal as a functional record player console, media cabinet, or decorative statement piece, the stereo offers timeless appeal for collectors of vintage audio equipment and Mid-Century...
Wood
Mid-Century Modern Record Player Cabinet by Carlo Hauner and Martin Eisler, 1955
By Carlo Hauner, Martin Eisler, Forma, Carlo Hauner and Martin Eisler
Located in New York, NY
A Caviúna record player produced by Forma S.A. Móveis e Objetos de Arte in the 1950s, with designs by Carlo Hauner and Martin Eisler. This record player has two hanging doors that ...
Hardwood
Mid-Century Modern Cabinet Console Record Player attributed to Ico Parisi design
By Ico Parisi
Located in Vigonza, Padua
This rare 1940s record player cabinet by LESA (Laboratori Elettrotecnici Società Anonima), Milan, represents a refined fusion of Italian craftsmanship and early modernist design.
Walnut
Vintage 1970's Custom Stereo Console Record Player 8 Track
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Calling all audiophiles!! Custom mid century stereo console and record player along with 8Track.
Wood
1950s Philips Radio / Tv / Record Player in Teak
By Philips
Located in Berkeley, CA
Origin: Denmark Designer: Unknown Manufacturer: Philips Era: 1960s Materials: Teak Measurements: 40″ wide x 14″ deep x 33.5″ tall
Teak
Record Player Brionvega by Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, 1960s
By Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
Located in Brussels, BE
Record Player Brionvega by Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, 1960s
Wood
Vintage Record Player; Beogram 1000 Turntable with Rosewood Veneer
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This Vintage Beogram 1000 Turntable, veneered in rich warm rosewood, is the perfect addition to your living room media console. Listen to music and entertain your guests in style. O...
Aluminum, Steel
Antique Philco Tube Radio Table Record Player Mahogany Case Model 46-1203
By Radiobar Corp. and Philco
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: 12" H x 23" W x 16" D.
Metal
Italian Radiophonograph RR126 and Record Player by Castiglioni, Brionvega 1960s
By Brionvega, Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian Radiophonograph and Record Player RR126 by Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni for Brionvega 1960s Model RR126 radio and record player with rectangular wooden base and dark ...
Metal
Coffee Table for Record Player by Carlo Hauner for Forma, 1960s
By Carlo Hauner, Forma
Located in bruxelles, BE
White wooden coffee table with a compartment for a record player, a compartment for storing vinyl records and two storage spaces, one of which is glass. Holes are made for the record...
Wood, Glass
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
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
BRIGHTS OF NETTLEBED BURR WALNUT FAUX BOOK FRONT RECORD PLAYER STORAGE CABiNET
By Brights of Nettlebed
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this lovely Burr Walnut Broghts of Nettlebed Record Player cabinet with leather Faux books to the front that...
Walnut
Vintage Mid Century Zenith Stereo Console/Record Player
By Zenith
Located in San Marcos, CA
Mid Century Modern Stereo Console By Zenith - Record Changer - AM/FM- Tube Amplifier.
Walnut
Mid-Century Modern Stereo Console Record Player bar platinum
By General Electric
Located in Madison, WI
“If art decorates space… and music is the art that decorates time, then our vintage stereo consoles decorate lives by accentuating both.” This console: This is a console refurbished...
Wood
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
Unavailable
H 33.5 in W 48 in D 15.5 in
Grundig Stereo Console Mid Century Majestic Vintage Working Tube Record Player
By Grundig
Located in East Hampton, NY
Mid century Grundig Majestic, vintage working tube stereo console with record player and short wave.
Metal
Mid-Century Modern Stereo Console Record Player bar platinum vtg
Located in Madison, WI
“If art decorates space… and music is the art that decorates time, then our vintage stereo consoles decorate lives by accentuating both.” This console: This is a console refurbished...
Wood
Unavailable
H 31 in W 25 in D 17 in
Mid-Century Modern Stereo Console Record Player amp bluetooth lk eames
Located in Madison, WI
“If art decorates space… and music is the art that decorates time, then our vintage stereo consoles decorate lives by accentuating both.” This console: This is a console refurbished...
Wood
Unavailable
H 10 in W 17 in D 2 in
Mid-Century Modern Stereo Console Radio Record Player bar coffee table book
Located in Madison, WI
“If art decorates space… and music is the art that decorates time, then our vintage stereo consoles decorate lives by accentuating both.” "The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors...
Wood
Unavailable
H 11 in W 17 in D 2 in
Mid-Century Modern stereo console radio record player coffee table console book
Located in Madison, WI
“If art decorates space… and music is the art that decorates time, then our vintage stereo consoles decorate lives by accentuating both.” This console: This is a console refurbished...
Wood
Unavailable
H 32 in W 49 in D 18 in
Mid-Century Modern Stereo Console Record Player bar platinum lk pearsall
Located in Madison, WI
“If art decorates space… and music is the art that decorates time, then our vintage stereo consoles decorate lives by accentuating both.” This console: This is a console refurbished...
Wood
TSF & Record Player Cabinet, Amplix – 1950
Located in HÉRIC, FR
This rosewood veneer cabinet features an Amplix tube radio on the front. Below, a record compartment can store no fewer than 34 vinyl records. The top has a hinged, veneered flap, an...
Wood
Unavailable
H 27 in W 54 in D 16 in
Mid-Century Modern Stereo Console Record Player amp platinum mdl lk eames
Located in Madison, WI
“If art decorates space… and music is the art that decorates time, then our vintage stereo consoles decorate lives by accentuating both.” This console: This is a console refurbished...
Wood
Orion Record Player from Hungary, circa 1955s
Located in Lábatlan, HU
Manufacturer / Brand: Orion; Budapest Year: 1955–1968 Record Player Model: Turntable AL 101 - Orion; Budapest Material Wooden case Dimensions (WHD) 540 x 220 x 430 mm / 21.3 x 8....
Plastic, Wood
Unavailable
H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
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H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
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H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
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H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
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H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
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H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
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H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
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H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
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H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
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H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
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H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
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H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
Unavailable
H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
Unavailable
H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
Unavailable
H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
Unavailable
H 16 in W 2 in D 12 in
Radiogram Stereo Record Player "The Coffee Table Console Book" (vintage radios)
Located in Madison, WI
"The Coffee Table Console Book" Purveyors, Curators, Restorers of fine authentic vintage stereo consoles from all around the world. Featuring fine furniture restorers and electronic...
Paper
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.
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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.
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Designer Susan Yeley turned to 1stDibs to outfit an Indiana home with standout pieces that complement its modernist style.