Mid-Century Italian Mahogany Valet Stand by SPQR
By SPQR
Located in Alhambra, CA
Elegant and practical mid-century valet stand by SPQR. Italian-made mahogany frame, with a woven
Brass
Mid-Century Modern Beech Wood Valet SPQR Italy C1960
By SPQR
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous simple and elegant beech wood valet made in Italy c1960 by the manufacturer SPQR. In
Brass
Italian Mid-Century Modern Beech Valet Chair by Spqr
By SPQR
Located in Charleston, SC
Italian, Mid-Century Modern, birch clothing stand, valet chair by SPQR features a woven rattan seat
Brass
Mid-Century Modern Solid Cherry Mens Valet Italy, 1950s
By SPQR, Ico Parisi
Located in San Diego, CA
Elegant solid light cherry Mid-Century Modern gentlemens valet by SPQR was made of solid cherry
Brass
Mid-Century Italian Mahogany Valet Stand with Drawer by SPQR
By SPQR
Located in Doylestown, PA
Vintage Italian mahogany and brass suit valet chair/stand with drawer by SPQR, 1950s. Practicality
Brass
1950's Italian Valet Chair by SPQR
By SPQR
Located in New York, NY
1950's Mid-Century Modern Italian valet chair by SPQR, fully restored and ready to use.
Brass
Italian SPQR Mid-Century Modern Walnut Valet
By SPQR
Located in Astoria, NY
Italian SPQR label Mid-Century Modern valet in walnut wood. The piece was manufactured in Italy in
Walnut
Mid-Century Italian Mahogany Valet Stand by SPQR
By SPQR
Located in Wilton, CT
Vintage 1950's Italian Clothing Valet Stand with woven seat and compact pull out drawer. The valet
Brass
Italian Mid-Century Modern Beech Valet Chair by SPQR
By SPQR
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Italian, Mid-Century Modern, birch clothing stand, valet chair by SPQR features a woven rattan seat
Brass
Midcentury Italian SPQR Clothes Valet with Seat and Drawer
By SPQR
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Mahogany clothes valet from Italy. Seat with a pullout drawer, upper jacket and pants rack along
Brass
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H 42.5 in W 19 in D 19 in
Italian Mid-Century Modern SPQR Birch, Brass Clothing Valet Suit Stand Chair
By SPQR
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Italian Mid-Century Modern SPQR birch & brass clothing valet suit stand chair. Item
Brass
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H 42.5 in W 18.5 in D 13 in
Italian Mid Century Modern Birch Wood Clothing Valet Butler Stand By SPQR
By SPQR
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Italian Mid Century Modern Birch Wood Clothing Valet Butler Stand By SPQR. Item features solid wood
Wood
Mid Century Modern Beech Clothing Valet Italy
By SPQR
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Simple yet elegant beech clothing valet with two racks, sculpted for shirt & jacket and a separate
Beech
Vintage Italian Valet Labeled S.P.Q.R.
By SPQR
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful vintage Italian valet signed S.P.Q.R. manufactured in the 1950's and in good original
Wood
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H 42.5 in W 19 in D 15 in
Vintage SPQR Mid Century Italian Modern Clothing Valet Seat Chair with Drawer
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage SPQR Mid Century Italian Modern Birch and Brass Clothing Valet Chair with Drawer. Item
Wood
$1,275
H 42.75 in W 17.5 in D 14 in
Mid Century Modern Sculptural Clothing Valet by Ico & Luisa Parisi Italy C1960
By Ico & Luisa Parisi
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous Italian modern design by Ico & Luisa Parisi for Fratelli Reguitti c1960. In excellent vintage condition, exhibiting just about no wear at all, a well cared for piece. Elega...
Brass
Fratelli Reguitti Valet Chair Style of Ico Parisi, 1950-1960
By Fratelli Reguitti, Ico Parisi
Located in Rochester, NY
Fratelli Reguitti valet chair in original cerused pale oak w/ brass fittings. Two brass rods w/ ball ends at top extend out to hold ties, belts. The synthetic woven rope seat lifts u...
Brass
$2,239
H 29.14 in W 31.89 in D 19.3 in
1950s Art Deco Midcentury Italian Wood and Brass Dry Bar Cabinet Liquor Cart
By Vittorio Dassi, Paolo Buffa, Gio Ponti, Guglielmo Ulrich, Ico & Luisa Parisi
Located in Carimate, Como
Unique and very elegant Italian Art Deco MidCentury Modern dry bar cabinet cart with two glass tiers and highlighted by the great wooden structure design and overall shape completed ...
Brass
Mission Hall Tree with Drawer
Located in Pasadena, TX
Mission oak antique hall tree with beveled mirror, umbrella stand with drip pans, hat hooks and covered storage box for keys, misc. 38"W x 13" D x 79" H.
Oak
$2,222Sale Price / set|20% Off
H 34.65 in W 18.9 in D 20.08 in
Set of 4 Antique Regency Quality Mahogany Dining Chairs
Located in Suffolk, GB
Set of 4 antique regency quality mahogany dining chairs having a quality carved mahogany top rail, carved mahogany splat to the centre with a figured mahogany panel, newly reupholste...
Other
$2,360
H 58.47 in W 34.85 in D 18.71 in
Freestanding Valet featuring drawers, shelves, and a coat rack, Italy, 1950s.
Located in Chiavari, Liguria
A mobile valet stand featuring drawers, shelves, and a coat rack, crafted from walnut wood, glass, and brass, Italian manufacturing from the 1950s. Essential for an entryway and hig...
Brass
Art Deco Iconic Circular Walnut Savoy Trolley Cart, 1930s
Located in Devon, England
For your consideration is this original and very attractive iconic English Art Deco Savoy Hostess trolley cart dating from the 1920s-1930s period. This three-tiered trolley not only ...
Walnut
$1,920Sale Price|20% Off
H 78.25 in W 27 in D 13.5 in
American Antique Oak Hall Tree with Storage Bench
Located in Pasadena, TX
American Antique Oak hall tree with storage bench 1900s Antique victorian beveled mirror entry hall coat tree with bench seat and drawer. Item features a beveled glass mirror and s...
Oak
1990s Foppapedretti Gentleman's Folding Valet Stand with Seat Italy
By Ico & Luisa Parisi
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1990s Italy Foppapedretti Gentleman's folding valet with chair. In the Style of Ico and Luisa Parisi Chair can be folded into a very practical rectangular shape, which takes up har...
Wood, Fabric
$11,000
H 28.15 in W 82.29 in D 31.5 in
Mid-Century Walnut Daybed in the Manner of Paolo Buffa, Italy 1960s
By Paolo Buffa
Located in Utrecht, NL
This daybed, in the style of Italian design icon Paolo Buffa, is a true testament to the glory days of mid-century modernism. Buffa's design language was always coherent with current...
Fabric, Walnut
19TH Century Entrance Coat-Rack Hanger with Mirror by Thonet
By Thonet
Located in Vigonza, Padua
Completely original entrance coat-rack hanger with mirror by Thonet, period 1800s. Measure cm: H 195, W 85, D 30.
Mirror, Beech
Good sturdy Art Deco Gentleman’s Floor Standing Valet or Suit Hanger
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Good sturdy Art Deco Gentleman’s Floor Standing Valet or Suit Hanger A very useful piece, the Valet or clothes stand is made in beech, it will accommodate jacket and trousers, but...
Beech
Mid Century Italian Brass Swivel Valet by ‘La Permanente Mobili Cantù’
By La Permanente Mobili Cantù
Located in Atlanta, GA
Excellent quality Mid Century Italian valet or coat rack with a brass central swivel stand raised on four splay feet. The stand supports three double-sided panels beautifully veneere...
Brass, Iron
Art Deco Gentleman’s Floor Standing Valet or Suit Hanger
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Art Deco Gentleman’s floor standing valet or suit hanger A very useful piece, the Valet or clothes stand is made in beech, it will accommodate jacket and trousers, but it would ...
Beech
Mid Century Modern Men's Clothing Valet C1960 Italy
By Fratelli Reguitti
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Sculptural and very functional clothing valet from Italy. Has all the necessary accoutrements for keeping your daily clothing hung. Change and jewelry tray also. In excellent vintage...
Aluminum, Brass
Chelsea Clothes Valet in Hazelnut Color
By Pinetti
Located in Milan, IT
Part of the Chelsea Collection, this latest valet stand seamlessly blends practicality with elegance. Featuring luxurious leather trays and accented by a sleek brass clothing rack, i...
Wood
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.