Rimini Blue Pottery

Italian 1960s Pottery Vase

Ceramic Totem By Ettore Sottsass

Bitossi 1950s

Aldo Londi Rimini Lamp

Bitossi Blue Vase

Bitossi Terracotta

Materials

Brass

H 6.7 in Dm 16.15 in

Mid Century Italian Rimini Blu Ceramic Boar Sculpture

Located in Nottingham, GB

This striking ceramic boar was designed by Aldo Londi for Bitossi as part of the celebrated Rimini Blu range produced in Italy during the 1960s. With its elongated body, narrow snout...

Category

Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures

Materials

Pottery

Aldo Londi Ceramic Candlestick Blue Glazed Bitossi Mid 20th Century Rimini Blu

$291

H 4.93 in Dm 5.71 in

Aldo Londi Ceramic Candlestick Blue Glazed Bitossi Mid 20th Century Rimini Blu

By Aldo Londi, Bitossi

Located in Bad Säckingen, DE

This exquisite Bitossi candle holder embodies the vibrant spirit of mid-20th-century Italian ceramics, particularly from the iconic Rimini Blu collection designed by Aldo Londi. Craf...

Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Candlesticks

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery

$2,084

H 6.7 in W 16.15 in D 2.37 in

Bitossi Rimini Blu Ceramic Boar Sculpture by Aldo Londi Mid Century Italian

Located in Nottingham, GB

This striking ceramic boar was designed by Aldo Londi for Bitossi during the 1960s and exemplifies the bold character and playful sophistication of the celebrated Rimini Blu series. ...

Category

Mid-20th Century Animal Sculptures

Materials

Pottery

Aldo Londi for Bitossi Kwan Yin Buddha Rimini Blu, Italy, 1970s

$1,867

H 13.78 in W 5.91 in D 6.89 in

Aldo Londi for Bitossi Kwan Yin Buddha Rimini Blu, Italy, 1970s

By Bitossi, Aldo Londi

Located in Morazzone, Varese

Aldo Londi for Bitossi Kwan Yin Buddha Rimini Blu, Italy, 1970s Gorgeous female Buddha made of shiny glazed ceramic pottery in a vibrant Rimini blue color.

Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Busts

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery

$1,495

H 16 in W 7 in D 7 in

Rimini Blu Ceramic Fish Lamp by Aldo Londi for Bitossi, Italy 1970s

By Aldo Londi, Bitossi

Located in Southampton, NJ

Rare “Rimini Blu” Ceramic Fish by Aldo Londi for Bitossi, Italy, 1970s. Handcrafted in glazed ceramic, the piece captures Londi’s distinctive artistic language: whimsical yet refined...

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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Materials

Ceramic, Pottery, Terracotta

H 12.21 in Dm 7.09 in

Aldo Londi Bitossi Rimini Blue Glazed Ceramic Ovoid Large Vase

By Aldo Londi, Bitossi

Located in Barcelona, ES

Rare ovoid shaped 'Rimini blu' ceramic vase designed by Aldo Londi and manufactured by Bitossi, Italy, 1960s. Blue glazed ceramic with engraved patterns decorating all the vase surf...

Category

Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases

Materials

Pottery, Terracotta, Ceramic

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Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Cabinets

Materials

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Rimini Blue Pottery For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the piece of rimini blue pottery you’re looking for. Frequently made of ceramic, pottery and terracotta, every item from our selection of rimini blue pottery was constructed with great care. Your living room may not be complete without a choice in our collection of rimini blue pottery — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. An object in our assortment of rimini blue pottery is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Mid-Century Modern, Brutalist and Hollywood Regency styles are sought with frequency.

How Much is a Rimini Blue Pottery?

Prices for a piece of rimini blue pottery start at $195 and top out at $4,500 with the average selling for $994.

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

Emerged during the mid-20th century
Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
A heyday of innovation in postwar America
Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe

CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
Promotion of functionality

MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

Charles and Ray Eames
Eero Saarinen
Milo Baughman
Florence Knoll
Harry Bertoia
Isamu Noguchi
George Nelson
Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa

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.