Osten Mirror
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Teak
Vintage 1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern More Mirrors
Mirror, Rosewood
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Nutwood
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Teak
Vintage 1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Mirrors
Metal
Vintage 1960s Table Mirrors
Teak
Vintage 1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Teak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Rosewood
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Rosewood, Leather
Vintage 1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Mirrors
Metal
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Leather, Oak
Vintage 1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Mirrors
Mirror, Teak
Vintage 1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Mahogany
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Sterling Silver
Vintage 1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Rosewood
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Table Mirrors
Oak
Vintage 1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Mirrors
Oak
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Mirrors
Steel
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Leather, Wood, Teak
Vintage 1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Leather, Mirror, Teak
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Mirrors
Aluminum
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Mirrors
Aluminum
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Mirrors
Steel
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Mirrors
Steel
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Mirrors
Oak
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Mirrors
Steel
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Teak
Vintage 1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Leather, Mirror, Teak
Vintage 1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Teak
Vintage 1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Mirrors
Oak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Mirrors
Metal
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Leather, Mirror, Rosewood
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Mirrors
Steel, Chrome
Vintage 1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Teak
Vintage 1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Mirrors
Leather, Mirror, Rosewood
Vintage 1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Leather, Teak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Walnut
Vintage 1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Mirrors
Mirror, Oak
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Pine
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Mirrors
Mirror, Oak
Vintage 1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Table Mirrors
Stainless Steel
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Mirrors
Oak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Mirrors
Stainless Steel
Vintage 1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Oak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Teak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Leather, Mirror, Teak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Oak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Teak
Vintage 1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Teak
Vintage 1960s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Leather, Teak
Vintage 1950s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Table Mirrors
Steel
Vintage 1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Teak
Vintage 1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Pine
Vintage 1950s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Leather, Oak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Leather, Oak
Vintage 1950s Wall Mirrors
Pine
Vintage 1960s Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Mirror, Teak
Mid-20th Century Swedish Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Hardwood
Mid-20th Century European Scandinavian Modern Wall Mirrors
Leather, Pine
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Leather, Oak
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Osten Mirror For Sale on 1stDibs
How Much is a Osten Mirror?
Uno & Östen Kristiansson for sale on 1stDibs
Swedish designer-siblings Uno Kristiansson and Östen Kristiansson are best known to collectors of vintage furniture for their imaginative lighting and mirrors. As partners, Uno & Östen Kristiansson united high-quality, practical Scandinavian modern design with fresh innovation.
Uno and Östen Kristiansson were born in southern Sweden. Their father was a furniture maker who owned a workshop — Vittsjo — that was named for the village in which it was located. In 1950, Uno opened his workshop in the same village. He called his company Luxus and brought his younger brother Östen on board as a designer and builder.
Like lots of designers of the era, the Kristianssons favored traditional teak wood but also employed more forward-looking materials such as glass, acrylic, leather and plastic. While their work spoke to the organic forms and craftsmanship that is typical of many Scandinavian modern designers, the brothers created minimalist oak mirrors and shapely pine wall lights — which often featured an integration of rattan — that set them apart from other artisans in their field.
Around 1966, Östen took over their father’s workshop and renamed it Östen Kristiansson AB. He eventually returned the company’s name to Vittsjo.
After 1970, Uno and Östen Kristiansson focused primarily on lamps and mirrors. They designed most of these works in acrylic, and wood became more of a secondary material in their composition. Collectors and interior designers continue to prize the many inventive furnishings they produced.
Find vintage Uno & Östen Kristiansson table lamps, wall lights and other furniture on 1stDibs.
Finding the Right Mirrors for You
The road from early innovations in reflective glass to the alluring antique and vintage mirrors in trendy modern interiors has been a long one but we’re reminded of the journey everywhere we look.
In many respects, wall mirrors, floor mirrors and full-length mirrors are to interior design what jeans are to dressing. Exceedingly versatile. Universally flattering. Unobtrusively elegant. And while all mirrors are not created equal, even in their most elaborate incarnation, they're still the heavy lifters of interior design, visually enlarging and illuminating any space.
We’ve come a great distance from the polished stone that served as mirrors in Central America thousands of years ago or the copper mirrors of Mesopotamia before that. Today’s coveted glass Venetian mirrors, which should be cleaned with a solution of white vinegar and water, were likely produced in Italy beginning in the 1500s, while antique mirrors originating during the 19th century can add the rustic farmhouse feel to your mudroom that you didn’t know you needed.
By the early 20th century, experiments with various alloys allowed for mirrors to be made inexpensively. The geometric shapes and beveled edges that characterize mirrors crafted in the Art Deco style of the 1920s can bring pizzazz to your entryway, while an ornate LaBarge mirror made in the Hollywood Regency style makes a statement in any bedroom. Friedman Brothers is a particularly popular manufacturer known for decorative round and rectangular framed mirrors designed in the Rococo, Louis XVI and other styles, including dramatic wall mirrors framed in gold faux bamboo that bear the hallmarks of Asian design.
Perhaps unsurprisingly, mid-century modernism continues to influence the design of contemporary mirrors. Today’s simple yet chic mantel mirror frames, for example, often neutral in color, owe to the understated mirror designs introduced in the postwar era.
Sculptor and furniture maker Paul Evans had been making collage-style cabinets since at least the late 1950s when he designed his Patchwork mirror — part of a series that yielded expressive works of combined brass, copper and pewter — for Directional Furniture during the mid-1960s. Several books celebrating Evans’s work were published beginning in the early 2000s, as his unconventional furniture has been enjoying a moment not unlike the resurgence that the Ultrafragola mirror is seeing. Designed by the Memphis Group’s Ettore Sottsass in 1970, the Ultrafragola mirror, in all its sensuous acrylic splendor, has become somewhat of a star thanks to much-lauded appearances in shelter magazines and on social media.
On 1stDibs, we have a broad selection of vintage and antique mirrors and tips on how to style your contemporary mirror too.