Italian Murano Glass Table Lamp by Giovanni Dalla Fina, White and Gold, 1980s
By Giovanni Dalla Fina
Located in Villaverla, IT
Italian Murano glass stacked-orb architectural table lamp crafted during the nineteen eighties showcases opulent Hollywood Regency lighting design by master glassmaker Giovanni Dalla...
Gold, Gold Leaf
Quadrifoglio Table Lamp by Ufficio Progetti for Harvey Guzzini, Italy, 1970s
By Guzzini
Located in AMSTERDAM, NL
A vintage Italian Space Age table lamp in white moulded acrylic and chrome, designed by Ufficio Progetti for Harvey Guzzini and produced in Italy, likely between circa 1968 and the e...
Metal, Chrome
Midcentury Italian Hollywood Regency Gilt Metal Tulip Table Lamp on Turned Wood
Located in Zaandam, NL
A four-light table lamp in gilt tole, formed as a spray of tulip-form buds rising from sword-leaf foliage, mounted on a turned wood baluster base. Each bud is built from layered silv...
Metal
Monumental Black Steel Wire Table Lamp by Laurel Lamp Company, 1950s
By Laurel Lamp Company
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Substantial Laurel Lamp Company Botanical Black Steel Wire Table Lamp. Small footprint. Featuring a tall, slender, sculptural, thick Black wire abstract leaf detailed framework on a ...
Brass, Steel, Wire
Anna-Lisa Thomson Ceramic Table Lamp, Gefle Sweden, 1940s–50s
By Gefle, Anna-Lisa Thomson
Located in Staffanstorp, SE
This sculptural ceramic table lamp was designed by Anna-Lisa Thomson (1905–1952), one of Sweden’s most important mid-century ceramic artists. Thomson was a leading designer at Gefle ...
Ceramic
$1,121Sale Price|25% Off
1970’s MCM Globe Table Lamp by Lawrence Peabody Many Moods Collection for Sears
By Lawrence Peabody, Sears, Roebuck & Company
Located in Topeka, KS
Marvelous vintage MCM (Mid-Century Modern) table lamp by Lawrence Peabody from his Many Moods Collection for Sears & Roebuck comprised of #941 avocado leaf green cylindrical ceramic ...
Ceramic, Milk Glass
Pineapple-shaped alabaster lamp from the 1930s in the art deco style
Located in Ternay, Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes
French art deco table lamp from the 1930s. Pineapple-shaped alabaster lampshade that opens in two parts (see photos). The round base in solid brass is decorated, as is the leaf-shape...
Alabaster
Vintage Russell Woodard English Ivy Leaf Wrought Iron Patio Set With Table
By Russell Woodard
Located in Omaha, NE
Russell Woodard Wrought Iron Patio Dining Set Four Chairs and Table Enhance your outdoor living with this stunning wrought iron dining set, designed for elegance and durability. Fe...
Iron
1970s Large Metal Leaf Display Basket
Located in Florence, Tuscany
A beautiful large 1970s Italian basket with a pretty leaf design and chrome finish. Perfect for the centre of a round hallway table or to display fruit in a kitchen or magazines in a...
Metal
Art Deco Murano Glass & Gilded Wood Lamp attrb. to Seguso 1940s-1950s
By Archimede Seguso, The Marbro Lamp Company
Located in Clifton Springs, NY
Stunning vintage Murano glass lamp features sculptural hand-blown glass body, mounted on gilded stepped wood base with gilded wood and brass fittings. The central glass element has a...
Brass, Gold Leaf
Vintage Taxco Sterling Silver Leaf Necklace, Mexican Sterling Silversmiths
By Los Castillo
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Striking vintage sterling silver necklace handcrafted in Taxco, Mexico—an iconic center of Mexican silversmithing and modernist design. This sculptural piece features a beautifully a...
Sterling Silver
Pair of Italian Murano Glass Candlesticks, 24-Karat Gold Leaf, Hurricane Design
Located in Villaverla, IT
Pair of Italian Murano glass hurricane candlesticks demonstrates exquisite Venetian art glass craftsmanship. Handcrafted in Italy, each hurricane lamp features a baluster-shaped clea...
Gold, Gold Leaf
1950's Natural Florida Palm Leaf Centrepiece Tray
Located in New York, NY
Natural 1950's Florida long palm leaf centrepiece tray with two balancing round wood ball legs Tray was crafted by drying and molding the leaf to the curved shape, perfect for displa...
Natural Fiber, Palmwood
Murano AVeM Radi Red Silver Fleck Italian Art Glass Sculptural Surface Bowl
By Arte Vetraria Muranese (AVEM), Giulio Radi
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown ruby red, controlled bubbles and silver flecks Italian art glass decorative surface bowl. Attributed to designer Giulio Radi for the A.Ve.M. (Arte...
Silver Leaf
$770Sale Price|20% Off
Venini amphora vase in Murano glass 1940-1949
By Venini
Located in Palermo, IT
Refined blown-glass vase attributed to Venini, made in Murano and featuring sophisticated filigree workmanship with thin horizontal lines enveloping the entire surface. The delicate ...
Gold Leaf
Italian Murano Glass Millefiori & Gold Centerpiece Bowl, 1990s - Mastri Vetrai
By Maestri Vetrai
Located in Villaverla, IT
Italian Murano glass centerpiece presentation bowl crafted during the nineteen nineties showcases refined Venetian Neoclassical revival design by Mastri Vetrai. Handcrafted in Italy,...
Gold, Gold Leaf
$760Sale Price|20% Off
Murano Barbini Vintage Orange Gold Flecks Italian Art Glass Centerpiece Bowl
By Alfredo Barbini
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown persimmon orange, controlled bubbles and gold flecks Italian art glass centerpiece bowl. Documented to Master glass artist and designer Alfredo Ba...
Gold Leaf
Tommi Parzinger for Charak Sideboard Server Two-Door Cabinet
By Charak Furniture Company, Tommi Parzinger
Located in Rio Vista, CA
The design is executed in an American Mid-Century Modern style with clean lines and balanced proportions.
Brass
$487Sale Price / item|25% Off
Murano Barbini Gold Flecks White Bubbles Italian Art Glass Martini Compote Bowl
By Salviati, Alfredo Barbini
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Priced per item (2 available as shown). Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown white, controlled bubbles and gold flecks Italian art glass pedestal compote bowl. Documented to designer...
Gold Leaf
Murano AVeM Red Millefiori Flowers Silver Flecks Italian Art Glass Flower Vase
By Arte Vetraria Muranese (AVEM), Giulio Radi
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful and unusual, vintage Murano hand blown red, silver, and very large millefiori flower murrines Italian art glass flower vase. The piece is attributed to the A.Ve.M. (Arte Ve...
Silver Leaf
Murano AVeM White Millefiori Flower Silver Copper Flecks Italian Art Glass Bowl
By Arte Vetraria Muranese (AVEM), Giulio Radi
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown white, silver flecks, copper aventurine, millefiori flower murrines and twisted ribbons Italian art glass bowl / ashtray. Documented to the A.Ve.M...
Silver Leaf
$2,400Sale Price|20% Off
Ercole Barovier Toso Murano 1966 Blue Red Gold Flecks Italian Art Glass Vase
By Barovier&Toso, Ercole Barovier
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Rare and beautiful, vintage Murano hand blown blue and wine red stripes on gold flecks Italian art glass flower vase. Documented to designer Ercole Barovier, for the Barovier e Toso ...
Gold Leaf
Italian Murano Glass Rectangular Disc Chandelier, Gold - Giovanni Dalla Fina
By Giovanni Dalla Fina
Located in Villaverla, IT
Italian Murano glass multi-light monumental linear disc chandelier crafted during the late twentieth century showcases glamorous Mid-Century Modern to Hollywood Regency architectural...
Gold, Gold Leaf
Italian Murano Art Glass Bowl Catchall after Seguso
By Seguso, Angelo Seguso, Archimede Seguso
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and substantial pink and clear/transparent Italian Murano art glass bowl in the manner of designer Angelo Seguso, circa mid-20th century, Italy. Bowl is round in clear/tr...
Murano Glass, Art Glass
Vintage Organic Form Pottery Bowl
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This pottery bowl reads as a piece of frozen movement, its undulating rim rippling outward in soft, irregular waves that recall a curled leaf or wind-caught petal rather than a conve...
Pottery
Italian Murano White Silver Art Glass Bowl Catchall Barbini Style
By Alfredo Barbini
Located in New York, NY
A beautiful and substantial Italian Murano white art glass bowl with a silver leaf design and scalloped edge, Midcentury Modern Italian period, circa 1960s, or earlier, Italy. In the...
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Vintage Gold Flecked Glass Bowl After Murano
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This vintage spherical glass bowl exemplifies the celebrated bullicante technique associated with Murano glasswork, its rounded form entirely covered in a uniform grid of controlled ...
Glass
Vintage Murano Gold Flecked Glass Bowl
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Exuding Venetian glamour and mid-century elegance, this vintage Murano hand-blown glass bowl showcases the famed Italian mastery of gold leaf inclusion (aventurine). Thick, clear mou...
Glass, Murano Glass
Vintage Green Portuguese Ceramic Decorative Bowl
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This decorative bowl is fashioned entirely in the likeness of an open cabbage leaf, its wide, undulating rim rippling outward in soft, irregular waves that mimic the natural furl of ...
Ceramic
Vintage Drip Glaze Pottery Vase
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
This pottery vase presents a rounded, urn-like silhouette, its body curving gently outward from a narrower base to a broader shoulder before drawing back inward toward a flared, roll...
Pottery
Los Castillo Taxco Silverplate and Green Enamel Dove Dish, circa 1980s
By Los Castillo
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Los Castillo Taxco Silverplate and Green Enamel Dove Dish, circa 1980s A sculptural Mexican silver-plated dish by Los Castillo of Taxco, circa 1980s, designed as a stylized dove car...
Enamel, Silver Plate
Vintage Meadow Craft "Dogwood" wrought-iron family patio set
By Meadowcraft
Located in Omaha, NE
Meadow Craft “Dogwood” Wrought Iron Swivel Rocker Dining Chairs with 72″ Wrought Iron Dining Table – Professionally Coated for Durability Add timeless elegance to your outdoor space...
Iron
Jonas Lyndby Jensen Akande Stool For One Collection
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jonas Lyndby Jensen Akande Stool For One Collection ‘Åkande’, translating to Water Lily in Danish, defines a multifaceted furniture series by Jonas Lyndby Jensen, a previous recipie...
Oak
$1,547 / item
Jonas Lyndby Jensen Akande Stool For One Collection
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Jonas Lyndby Jensen Akande Stool For One Collection ‘Åkande’, translating to Water Lily in Danish, defines a multifaceted furniture series by Jonas Lyndby Jensen, a previous recipie...
Oak
Italian Murano Glass Vase, Ruby Red, Gold Dust stripes, 1960s
Located in Villaverla, IT
Italian Murano glass vase crafted during the nineteen sixties showcases exceptional mid-century Venetian glassmaking art. Handcrafted in Italy, this classic baluster-form vessel disp...
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Cut Glass, Murano Glass
Vintage Murano Opal & Gold Aventurine Art Glass Bowl Ashtray Fratelli Toso I
By Fratelli Toso
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage Large Mid-Century Modern Fratelli Toso Murano Art Glass Decorative Bowl Ashtray. A mesmerizing large Murano opal white and Gold aventurine glass bowl from the 1950s-1960s mad...
Art Glass, Blown Glass
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.
The right vintage, new or antique tables can help make any space in your home stand out.
Over the years, the variety of tables available to us, as well as our specific needs for said tables, has broadened. Today, with all manner of these must-have furnishings differing in shape, material and style, any dining room table can shine just as brightly as the guests who gather around it.
Remember, when shopping for a dining table, it must fit your dining area, and you need to account for space around the table too — think outside the box, as an oval dining table may work for tighter spaces. Alternatively, if you’ve got the room, a Regency-style dining table can elevate any formal occasion at mealtime.
Innovative furniture makers and designers have also redefined what a table can be. Whether it’s an unconventional Ping-Pong table, a brass side table to display your treasured collectibles or a Louis Vuitton steamer trunk to add an air of nostalgia to your loft, your table can say a lot about you.
The visionary work of French designer Xavier Lavergne, for example, includes tables that draw on the forms of celestial bodies as often as they do aquatic creatures or fossils. Elsewhere, Italian architect Gae Aulenti, who looked to Roman architecture in crafting her stately Jumbo coffee table, created clever glass-topped mobile coffee tables that move on bicycle tires or sculpted wood wheels for Fontana Arte.
Coffee and cocktail tables can serve as a room’s centerpiece with attention-grabbing details and colors. Glass varieties will keep your hardwood flooring and dazzling area rugs on display, while a marble or stone coffee table in a modern interior can showcase your prized art books and decorative objects. A unique vintage desk or writing table can bring sophistication and even a bit of spice to your work life.
No matter your desired form or function, a quality table for your living space is a sound investment. On 1stDibs, browse a collection of vintage, new and antique bedside tables, mid-century end tables and more .
Whether you’re just moving in or ready to give your home a makeover, our guide will give you pointers on tables that are fitting for every room, nook and hallway.
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