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Prefab Architecture

1 BANGA space age micro architecture prefab house bungalow by Carlo Zappa, 1971
By Carlo Zappa
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
fabric) - many niches, shelves and cupboards - 2 integrated architectural lights made of translucent grp
Category

Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Architectural Elements

Materials

Fiberglass

1 BANGA space age micro architecture prefab house bungalow by Carlo Zappa, 1971
By Carlo Zappa
Located in Frankfurt am Main, DE
fabric) - many niches, shelves and cupboards - 2 integrated architectural lights made of translucent grp
Category

Vintage 1970s Italian Space Age Architectural Elements

Materials

Fiberglass

Rare Olympic games prefab Munich 1972 by Peter Hübner
By Another Human
Located in Perpignan, FR
de Papedder , un exemplaire d’exposition a été présenté à la grande foire d’architecture plastique
Category

Vintage 1970s French Space Age Architectural Elements

Materials

Fiberglass, Polyester, Polystyrene

Rare Olympic games prefab Munich 1972 by Peter Hübner
Rare Olympic games prefab Munich 1972 by Peter Hübner
$95,382
H 110.24 in W 118.12 in D 118.12 in

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1968. rare prefab house Nikolaos Xasteros
By Nikolaos Xasteros
Located in Perpignan, FR
interior was gutted, the house was exhibited at the 2nd Athens Biennale in 2009 by the Greek architecture
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Vintage 1960s French Space Age Architectural Elements

Materials

Metal

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Art Deco Walnut 'Rocket Cabinet', Vitrine, English, c1930
Located in Devon, England
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Art Deco Walnut 'Rocket Cabinet', Vitrine, English, c1930
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$3,648
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Set of 2 Mid-Century Swiss Space Age Guggerli L3 Floor Lamp for Baltensweiler
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Heart Stool with Red or Black Fabric
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Located in Philadelphia, PA
A sleek ultra mod look after Karl Springer. This 6 drawer dresser features semi-gloss white laminate sculptural design with tons of storage.
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Prefab Architecture For Sale on 1stDibs

Find many varieties of an authentic prefab architecture available at 1stDibs. Frequently made of aluminum, glass and metal, every prefab architecture was constructed with great care. There are 4 variations of the antique or vintage prefab architecture you’re looking for, while we also have 7 modern editions of this piece to choose from as well. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect prefab architecture — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century are available. A prefab architecture made by modern designers — as well as those associated with mid-century modern — is very popular. A well-made prefab architecture has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Claesson Koivisto Rune, Fontana Arte and Charlotte Perriand are consistently popular.

How Much is a Prefab Architecture?

Prices for a prefab architecture can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, they begin at $613 and can go as high as $383,142, while the average can fetch as much as $1,586.

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

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.