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Stan Bitters Bird Houses in Glazed Ceramic, USA, 2017
By Stan Bitters
Located in Berlin, DE
Excellent handmade bird houses of glazed lowlfier clay by Stan Bitters. The birdhouses are
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2010s American Mid-Century Modern Garden Ornaments

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Clay

Stan Bitters Bird Houses in Spray Metal, USA, 2017
By Stan Bitters
Located in Berlin, DE
Excellent handmade bird houses of porous lowlfier clay in spray metal by Stan Bitters. The
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2010s American Mid-Century Modern Garden Ornaments

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Clay

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Stan Bitters Ceramic Birdhouse 1970s
By Stan Bitters
Located in San Diego, CA
Ceramic birdhouse by Stan Bitters, for Hans Sumpf. Dual hole bird habitat with a small patch of
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Vintage 1970s North American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures

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Clay

Stan Bitters California Modern Stoneware Birdhouse
By Stan Bitters
Located in San Diego, CA
Stan Bitters California Modern Stoneware Birdhouse in a white glaze. This is a studio made
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Early 2000s American Mid-Century Modern Garden Ornaments

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Stoneware

Stan Bitters California Modern Stoneware Birdhouse
By Stan Bitters
Located in San Diego, CA
Stan Bitters California Modern Stoneware Birdhouse. The cord is 40" in length. Multiple available
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Garden Ornaments

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Stoneware

Stan Bitters California Modern Stoneware Birdhouse
By Stan Bitters
Located in San Diego, CA
Stan Bitters for Hans Sumpf California Modern Stoneware Birdhouse. The shelter is 6" high x 6" wide
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Garden Ornaments

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Stoneware

Stan Bitters California Modern Stoneware Birdhouse
By Stan Bitters
Located in San Diego, CA
Stan Bitters for Hans Sumpf California Modern Stoneware Birdhouse. The shelter is 6" high x 6" wide
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Garden Ornaments

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Stoneware

Stan Bitters California Modern Stoneware Birdhouse
By Stan Bitters
Located in San Diego, CA
Stan Bitters for Hans Sumpf California Modern Stoneware Birdhouse. The shelter is 6" high x 6" wide
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Garden Ornaments

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Stoneware

Stan Bitters Midcentury Ceramic Stoneware Birdhouse
By Stan Bitters
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Stan Bitters ceramic stoneware birdhouse Created for Hans Sumpf California Circa 1970s Elevate
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Vintage 1970s American Garden Ornaments

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Ceramic

Stan Bitters California Modern Stoneware Birdhouse with Natural Grown Moss
By Stan Bitters
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Stoneware birdhouse which retains its natural grown moss made by artist and sculptor Stan Bitters
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Garden Ornaments

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Stoneware

Midcentury String and Stoneware Ball Birdhouse Architectural Pottery Folk Art
By Stan Bitters
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Wonderful design that integrates in the string that will hang the vessel, 1960s. Craftsman Unknown. New string applied.
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Architectural Elements

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Pottery

Stan Bitters Birdhouses
Located in Culver City, CA
Creative, colorful and compassionate, these contemporary birdhouses offer a stylish piece of real
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Vintage 1970s American Sculptures and Carvings

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Clay

Stan Bitters Birdhouses
Stan Bitters Birdhouses
H 7.5 in W 7.5 in D 7.5 in
Stan Bitters Birdhouse Original Vintage 1970s
By Stan Bitters
Located in Los Angeles, CA
exhibitions celebrating California Crafts. The Birdhouse featured here is one of Stan Bitters' early editions
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Garniture

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Ceramic

Stan Bitters Ceramic Birdhouse for Hans Sumpf, 1960s
By Stan Bitters
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage wheel-thrown birdhouse by California ceramicist Stan Bitters for Hans Sumpf. The length
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Architectural Elements

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Terracotta

Set of Three Stan Bitters Ceramic Birdhouses, circa 1970
By Stan Bitters
Located in Los Angeles, CA
3 ceramic birdhouse sculptures by master potter and California artist Stan Bitters circa 1970. Each
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Pottery

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Clay

Ceramic Birdhouse by Stan Bitters for Hans Sumpf California, ca 1970
By Hans Sumpf, Stan Bitters
Located in Costa Mesa, CA
Ceramic Birdhouse by Stan Bitters for Hans Sumpf California, ca 1970. Beautiful example of some of
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Garden Ornaments

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Terracotta

Mid Century Modern Ceramic Birdhouses by Stan BItters
Located in Culver City, CA
Mid Century Modern Stan Bitters white ceramic birdhouses, wheel thrown.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics

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Ceramic

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Stan Bitters for sale on 1stDibs

An icon of modernist ceramics since the 1960s, Stan Bitters constructed rough assemblages of clay slabs and spoked wheels into massive murals and tall totems, upsizing his medium to an architectural scale. 

Like Toshiko Takaezu, Peter VoulkosPaul Soldner and others, Bitters was part of a small group of American artists during the mid-20th-century who embraced imperfection in their pottery

Working in ceramics, a material that during the last 100 years was relegated to the supposedly lesser artistic realm of craft, Bitters and these other artists made bold, chunky pieces that served as a counterpoint to the smooth lines and overall slickness of modern and postmodern movements like Bauhaus, constructivism, minimalism, Op art and Pop art.

Hailing from Fresno, California, the self-proclaimed “old hippie” Bitters earned his bachelor’s degree in painting from UCLA. He also studied at what became Otis College in Los Angeles under Voulkos — the bad boy of American ceramics

Voulkos almost single-handedly spawned what came to be known as the California Clay Movement and flouted pottery’s approved techniques. He transformed clay into a vibrant, highly expressive artistic medium, and Bitters’ funky, fractured style certainly shows it. 

Bitters later became associated with organic modernism and created ceramics for Hans Sumpf, a maker of adobe bricks and furniture in Madera. 

“Known for his Abstract Expressionist style, Bitters is a steadfast champion of environmental ceramics — the melding of natural, organic clay forms, sculptures and architectural elements into urban spaces to complement, transform and elevate their surroundings,” says Greg Nielson, of Dwell Floor Five, in Studio City, California.

With their sputtery glazes and graffiti-esque glyphs, Bitters’s works exude raw, countercultural energy.

Find Stan Bitters decorative objects, garden ornaments, planters and other furniture for sale on 1stDibs.

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

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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.