Steel Sculpture Mid Century
Vintage 1970s American Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Steel
1940s Abstract Sculptures
Steel
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
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Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Abstract Sculptures
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Vintage 1940s European Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Cut Steel
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculp...
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2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
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Mid-20th Century Unknown Abstract Sculptures
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Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
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Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
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2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
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Vintage 1960s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Brass, Steel
Late 20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Cut Steel
2010s Abstract Abstract Sculptures
Stainless Steel
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Steel
1950s Modern Still-life Sculptures
Stainless Steel
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
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Mid-20th Century Abstract Abstract Sculptures
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
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Vintage 1960s German Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Stainless Steel
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Marble, Enamel, Steel
Vintage 1960s Danish Brutalist Abstract Sculptures
Copper
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Gold, Steel
1950s Abstract Geometric Abstract Sculptures
Stainless Steel
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Brass, Steel
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Marble, Steel
Vintage 1960s Danish Brutalist Abstract Sculptures
Copper
1990s American Post-Modern Abstract Sculptures
Cut Steel
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
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Mid-20th Century Brutalist Abstract Sculptures
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
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21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculp...
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Mid-20th Century American Abstract Sculptures
Cut Steel
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Stainless Steel
1950s American Modern Abstract Sculptures
Steel
Late 20th Century French Brutalist Sculptures
Steel
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Brass, Steel
Vintage 1970s British Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Steel
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Marble, Steel
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Steel
Mid-20th Century American Brutalist Abstract Sculptures
Cut Steel
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Cut Steel
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Marble, Cut Steel
Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Steel
Vintage 1970s British Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Steel
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Steel
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Figurative Sculptures
Stainless Steel
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Cut Steel
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Steel
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Metal, Steel
Vintage 1980s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Stainless Steel
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Bronze, Steel
Vintage 1960s American Abstract Sculptures
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Marble, Stainless Steel
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
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Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Stone, Metal, Cut Steel
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Stainless Steel
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
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Steel Sculpture Mid Century For Sale on 1stDibs
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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 American 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.
Postwar American architects and designers were animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist “International Style” architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences such as Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the ’30s 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, respectively, pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair. George Nelson and his design team created Bubble lamp shades using a new translucent polymer skin. Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were re-purposed: the Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs that used surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests. The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by legendary manufacturer Knoll, a chief influence 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.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century 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, blonde-wood furniture — and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
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