"Diaframma" wall lamp in brass and glass by G&A Monti for Fontana Arte, Italy, 1968
By Gianemilio Piero and Anna Monti
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
Gamma Ds wall sconce in brass and glass by Sergio Mazza for Artemide, Italy, 1960
By Sergio Mazza
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
Gamma Ds wall sconces in brass and glass by Sergio Mazza for Artemide, Italy, 1960
By Sergio Mazza
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
Ceiling lamp designed by Flavio Poli for Seguso 1960s
By Flavio Poli
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass, Chrome
Wall sconces in Murano glass and brass by Flavio Seguso for Seguso, Italy, 1960s
By Flavio Poli
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
Quilt wall sconces designed by Toni Zuccheri for Venini 1970
By Toni Zuccheri
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass, Iron
Pair of two lounge chairs in wool upholstery of Italian Production 1970
By Depas E D'urbino
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal
Bed Le Bambole in velvet & linen upholstery by Mario Bellini for B&B Italy 1972
By Mario Bellini
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Cotton, Linen, Velvet
Le Bambole sofa in leather upholstery by Mario Bellini for B&B Italy 1972
By Mario Bellini
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Animal Skin
Le Bambole Chaise Longue in leather suede by Mario Bellini for B&B, Italy, 1972
By Mario Bellini
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Animal Skin, Suede, Hemp
Callimaco floor lamp in metal Black by Ettore Sottsass for Artemide, Italy 1982
By Ettore Sottsass
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Steel
$14,202Sale Price|25% Off
Mid-century Maja sofa in velvet by Guarnacci & Padovano for 1P Italy, 1971
By Felix Padovano, Emilio Guarnacci
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Steel
$15,623Sale Price|20% Off
Ciuingam leather sofa by De Pas D'Urbino & Lomazzi for Bonacina, Italy, 1967
By Gionathan de Pas & Donato D’Urbino & Paolo Lomazzi
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Leather, Plastic, Rubber
Pair of Clio wall sconces in glass and brass by Sergio Mazza for Artemide, Italy, 1963
By Sergio Mazza
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
$10,060 / set
Set of 4 Clio wall sconces in glass and brass by Sergio Mazza for Artemide, 1963, Italy
By Sergio Mazza
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
Set of 2 wall sconces in wood and brass by Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte, Italy, 1940
By Pietro Chiesa
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
Set of 10 Medea dining chairs in plywood by Nobili for Tagliabue, Italy, 1956
By Vittorio Nobili
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass, Iron
Set of 8 Medea dining chairs made of plywood by Nobili for Tagliabue, Italy, 1956
By Vittorio Nobili
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass, Iron
Cocoon ceiling lamp produced by Artur Eisenkeil, Italy, 1960
By Licht Studio - Eisenkel
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Wood, Resin
AM/AS ceiling lamp in opal glass & metal by Franco Albini for Sirrah Italy 1969
By Franco Albini and Franca Helg
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal
Set of 6 Medea dining chairs made of plywood by Nobili for Tagliabue, Italy, 1956
By Vittorio Nobili
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass, Iron
Set of 4 Medea dining chairs made of plywood by Nobili for Tagliabue, Italy, 1956
By Vittorio Nobili
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass, Iron
Set of 2 Medea dining chairs made of plywood by Nobili for Tagliabue, Italy, 1956
By Vittorio Nobili
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass, Iron
Floor Lamp by Artur Eisenkeil, Black Metal & Cocoon Shade, Italy, 1965
By Licht Studio - Eisenkel
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Aluminum, Iron
Gamma wall sconce in brass and glass by Sergio Mazza for Artemide, Italy, 1960
By Sergio Mazza
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
Gamma wall sconces in brass and glass by Sergio Mazza for Artemide, Italy, 1960
By Sergio Mazza
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
LT 341 floor lamp in Murano glass and brass by Carlo Nason for Mazzega, Italy, 1970
By Carlo Nason
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass, Chrome
Pair of Sigma wall sconces in glass and brass by Sergio Mazza for Artemide, Italy, 1960
By Sergio Mazza
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
Wardrobe made of veneered wood, glass, and brass, attributed to Gio Ponti, Italy, 1950s.
By Gio Ponti
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal, Brass
Wall sconce in Murano glass and brass by Toni Zuccheri for Venini, Italy, 1960
By Toni Zuccheri
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass, Iron
Dahlia wall sconce in glass and brass by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, Italy, 1955
By Max Ingrand
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
Mid-century lounge chair in leather and brass by Guglielmo Veronesi for Lenzi 1954
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal, Brass
$33,139Sale Price / set|20% Off
Pair of glass and brass wall sconces by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, Italy, 1955
By Max Ingrand
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
$1,657Sale Price|30% Off
Ceiling lamp in cocoon & metal produced by Artur Eisenkeil, Italy 1960.
By Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal
$2,485Sale Price|30% Off
Ceiling lamp in cocoon & metal produced by Artur Eisenkeil, Italy 1960.
By Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal
$2,485Sale Price / item|40% Off
Ceiling lamp in cocoon & metal produced by Artur Eisenkeil, Italy 1960.
By Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal
Ceiling lamp in cocoon & metal produced by Artur Eisenkeil, Italy 1960.
By Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal
$3,313Sale Price / set|20% Off
Pair of Sigma wall sconces in brass and glass by Sergio Mazza for Artemide, Italy, 1960
By Sergio Mazza
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
Pair of Clio wall sconces in brass and glass by Sergio Mazza for Artemide, Italy, 1963
By Sergio Mazza
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
Pagrù mid-century sofa set in brown velvet by Claudio Vagnoni for 1P Italy, 1969
By Claudio Vagnoni
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Cotton
Bruno Chiarini Pendant Lamp, Brass Frame, Satin White Glass, 1958, Italy
By Bruno Chiarini
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
1837 desk lamp in satin glass and brass by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, Italy, 1954
By Max Ingrand
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
$28,405Sale Price|20% Off
Environ 1 cotton-upholstered sofa by Ennio Chiggio for Nikol Italy, 1970
By Ennio Chiggio
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Cotton
"Elica" wall sconce in Murano glass and metal by Toni Zuccheri for Venini, Italy, 1965
By Toni Zuccheri
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal
Elica wall sconces in Murano glass by Toni Zuccheri for Venini, Italy, 1965
By Toni Zuccheri
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal
$5,385Sale Price / set|35% Off
Pair of ceiling lamp in cocoon & metal produced by Artur Eisenkeil, Italy 1960.
By Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal
$4,970Sale Price / set|30% Off
Pair of ceiling lamp in cocoon & metal produced by Artur Eisenkeil, Italy 1960.
By Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal
$5,385Sale Price / set|30% Off
Pair of ceiling lamp in cocoon & metal produced by Artur Eisenkeil, Italy 1960.
By Achille & Pier Giacomo Castiglioni
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal
Luminous mirror & shelf in glass by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, Italy 1964
By Max Ingrand
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Cut Glass, Mirror
Max Ingrand Ceiling Lamp Model 2203, Fontana Arte, 1960, Italy, glass and brass.
By Max Ingrand
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass, Aluminum
Mod 2397 ceiling lamp designed by Max Ingrand for Fontana Arte, 1966
By Max Ingrand
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Brass
Wall sconces made of Murano glass, designed by Pierre Cardin for Venini, Italy, 1975.
By Pierre Cardin
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal, Aluminum
"Empty Pocket" in ground crystal glass, produced by Fontana Arte, Italy, 1960
By Fontana Arte
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Stained Glass
Gaetano table designed by Gae Aulenti for Zanotta 1973
By Gae Aulenti
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Aluminum
Torpedo wall sconce in opal glass and brass by Carlo Nason for Mazzega, Italy, 1960
By Carlo Nason
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal
$7,101 / set
Pair of "Torpedo" wall sconces in glass and brass by Carlo Nason for Mazzega, Italy, 1960
By Carlo Nason
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal
$6,509 / set
Pair of LSP6 wall sconces in glass and brass by Caccia Dominioni for Azucena, 1965, Italy
By Luigi Caccia Dominioni
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Aluminum, Brass
925 armchair by Afra & Tobia Scarpa for Cassina, 1966, Italy, wood and leather.
By Afra & Tobia Scarpa
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal
Pair of 925 armchairs by A. & T. Scarpa for Cassina, 1966, Italy; wood and leather.
By Afra & Tobia Scarpa
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Metal
Pair of Nuava armchairs in wool and cotton by Guarnacci for 1P Italy, 1969
By Emilio Guarnacci, Felix Padovano
Located in Arezzo, Italy
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Wool, Cotton, Coating
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.
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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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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.
Prehistoric motifs give the mid-century Italian fireplace an elemental feel.
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