Mid Century Marble Top Cocktail & End Table with Leather Wrap Base Marge Carson
By Marge Carson
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous pair of leather wrapped tables with marble tops framed in bronze. End table measures 30 x 30 x 26H. Cocktail Table is 50 x 40 x 18.5. Both are in very good condition with a...
Marble
Vintage Baroque Style Gold Cast Aluminum Metal Tripod Pedestal Table Base
Located in Philadelphia, PA
*Listing is for base only and does not include a top. Circa Mid 20th Century.
Aluminum
$1,600Sale Price|20% Off
Midcentury Drop-Leaf Dining Table with Rattan Base
Located in Rio Vista, CA
Danish style Mid-Century Modern drop-leaf dining table featuring an unusual gate leg base that has been covered with split rattan, giving the table an organic modern style.
Brass
Danish Mid-Century Modern Rosewood and Chrome "Lotus Design" Base 'Dyrlund'
By Dyrlund
Located in Queens, NY
Danish Mid-Century Modern (1960s) rosewood and chrome "Lotus Design" "Flip Flap" table with nickel plated hinges and bases; 28 3/4" high x 59" diameter (extended) (DYRLUND) Wood is ...
Chrome
Midcentury X-Base Side Table
By Milo Baughman
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Polished chrome frame with attractive cross support and thick glass top. (Please confirm item location - NY or NJ - with dealer)
Chrome
Rare table with a turned wooden base and with a splendid onyx
By ISA Bergamo
Located in Milano, IT
COD-S251 Rare table with a turned wooden base and cast bronze tripod with a splendid onyx top. Manufactured by Isa Bergamo, ca. 1950.
Marble
Petite Milk Glass Table Lamp with Pedestal Base
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Brass table lamp features aged brass stems on a pedestal base with two fluted milk glass cone shades. The switch at the base allows for both shades to be illuminated or just one at a...
Brass
$1,197Sale Price|30% Off
Vintage Italian Brass 4 Column Dining Game Table Base
Located in Lake Worth, FL
For FULL item description click on READ MORE below. Offering One Of Our Recent Palm Beach Estate Fine Furniture Acquisitions Of A Vintage Italian Brass 4 Column Dining Game Table ...
Brass
$1,520Sale Price|20% Off
Steelcase 38” Diameter Round Granite Table with Stainless Base
By Steelcase
Located in Pasadena, TX
Steelcase 38” Diameter Round Granite Table with Stainless Base Modern mid century elegant table with 4 star base.
Granite
Mid-Century Modern Sculptural Black Glazed Ceramic Lamp with Chrome Base
Located in New York, NY
This beautiful Mid-Century Modern ceramic lamp was realized in the United States, circa 1960. It features an organic protuberant form finished in a lustrous black glaze that extends ...
Ceramic
Mid-Century Plexiglass Head Metal Base Pair of Desk Lamps, 1960s, Germany
Located in Hagenbach, DE
Mid-Century Plexiglass Head Metal Base Pair of Desk Lamps, 1960s, Germany Original cables and plugs. These lamps are suitable for EU plug socket. Lamps are in very good vintage c...
Metal
18th-Century Aosta Valley Maple Fratino Table with Cross-Shaped Base
Located in Pont-Saint-Martin, IT
An exceptional 18th-century Aosta Valley Fratino table crafted in solid maple wood, representing the refined simplicity and robust craftsmanship of traditional Valdostan furniture. T...
Maple
Calacatta Marble Dining Table with Herman Miller Eames Base
By Charles and Ray Eames, Herman Miller
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Gorgeous dining table featuring cast aluminum Herman Miller contract base paired with Italian calacatta marble top.
Marble, Metal
Oversized Mid-Century Modern 1960s Fat Lava Lamp Base in Turquoise Ceramic
Located in COLMAR, FR
Due to its impressive size, it can be used either as a table lamp or as a floor lamp. Definitely a fun, hight decorative, mid-century modern statement lamp.
Pottery
Mid-Century Brass & Black Metal Base Pair of Bedside Lamps, 1960s, Italy
Located in Hagenbach, DE
Mid-Century Brass & Black Metal Base Pair of Bedside Lamps, 1960s, Italy Minimal and natural design with fabric Very high quality. Fully functional. Original cables and plugs. The...
Brass, Metal
Vintage Modern Coffee Table with Architectural Chrome Base
By Pace Collection
Located in Trenton, NJ
This vintage Modern coffee table exemplifies the refined balance between architectural structure and natural materiality that defined much of late twentieth-century American furnitur...
Metal
Mid-Century /Modern Rock Crystal Lamp , Hi-polished Brass . LED base
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Amazing Rock Crystal Lamp .Custom designed and Custom made for a popular Designer in Los Angeles . All solid brass frame and base in hi-polished finish , Has a double cluster socket...
Metal, Brass
Designer Table With Golden Base
Located in Charmes, FR
Beautiful and elegant glass dining table and gold metal base. A beautiful combination between glass and steel. With a simple and refined design. Top and base can be separated, making...
Glass
Custom Rosewood Dining Table w/ Geometric Base
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large custom made dining table with a brilliant rosewood grain top, set on a unique black wood geometric base. Comes with 2 leaves that extend the table from 84" to 120.75" long. Ple...
Rosewood
Mid-Century Modern Sculptural Kidney Shaped Glass with Minimalist Walnut Base
By T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous Mid-Century Modern Sculptural Kidney Shaped Glass Cocktail Table.
Glass, Walnut
Vintage French Empire Mahogany Pedestal Base Round Brass Gallery Center Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: 26" H x 25" Diameter.
Brass
$3,149Sale Price|25% Off
Organic Side Table Top, Custom Base
Located in Dallas, TX
Organic wood side table top, custom metal steel base.
Iron
Mid-Century Modern Style Murano Glass Lamps, Chrome Base, Italy, 2023
Located in Austin, TX
Fabulous pair of hand-blown Murano glass modernist lamps with a chrome like silver appearance. The polyhedral elements give the lamps the strong modernist feel. The glass is held in ...
Metal
19th Century Chestnut Table Top on Contemporary Iron Base
Located in Brecht, BE
We recuperated a 19th century single piece of walnut table top and combined it with a contemporary iron base, makes a wonderful coffee table now... sturdy and with a wonderful patina...
Walnut
Mid Century Modern Harvey Guzzini Marble Base for Arc Floor Lamp Italy 1960s
By Harvey Guzzini
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is an incredible, white marble base, which can be attached to a pole for an arc floor lamp, by Harvey Guzzini, made in Italy, circa the 1960s. In excellent vin...
Marble
Paul Evans City Scape Table Base
By Paul Evans
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Iconic City Scape 8-Sided Table Base Burlwood & Metal Vintage Condition Wear consistent with age & use Height : 28.5 in Width : 22.25 in Depth : 22.2...
Metal
Italian Mid-Century Tommaso Barbi Lamp with Blown Glass Base and Linen Shade
By Tommaso Barbi, B Ceramiche
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mid-Century table lamp designed by Italian designer Tommaso Barbi in the 1970s.
Linen, Blown Glass
19th Century French Bistro Guéridon Table with Mosaic Top and Iron Base
Located in Dallas, TX
Crafted in France circa 1840, this elegant antique guéridon features a circular marble and stone mosaic top set within a thick iron frame. The round surface is composed of hand-cut t...
Marble, Iron
$145Sale Price|44% Off
Mid-Century Yellow Rearing Horse w/ Wall TV Lamp Base
Located in Van Nuys, CA
TV Lamps are a particularly iconic type of vintage home decor. Manufactured primarily in the 1950s and early 60's, these little lamps were designed to sit on top of the television an...
Ceramic
Postmodern Pedestal Dining Table with Marble Foot Base
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Round postmodern blackened steel dining table features a marble pedestal foot base. The sculptural foot base is carved from one solid piece of carrera marble. Dimensions 56" diamete...
Carrara Marble, Steel
Small 19th Century Rosewood End Table on Carved Tripod Base with Marquetry
Located in INTERLAKEN, NY
A small and graceful sewing or work table on carved tripod base with octagonal top in rosewood with satinwood floral inlays. Lift-top opens to lidded compartments with access to plea...
Satinwood
Dining table with lacquered metal base
By Vico Magistretti
Located in Milano, IT
COD-2106A Dining table with lacquered metal base and wooden top. Attr. Vico Magistretti, ca. 1965.
Metal
Wooden X Base Granite Top Side Tables
Located in Denton, TX
Teak Color Finish Wooden X Base Side Tables With Black Granite Tops
Granite
Vintage Small Campaign Style Trunk Chest on Brass Base Accent Side Table
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Circa Mid 20th Century. Measurements: 19" H x 19" W x 12" D.
Brass
Vintage Murano Italian Mid Century Modern Blue Blown Glass Marble Table Lamp
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Murano Italian Mid Century Modern Blue Blown Glass Marble Base Table Lamp.
Marble
Contemporary Stone Top and Metal Base Console Table
Located in Sheffield, MA
Mid-Century Modern classic and elegant marble stone top on iron metal console base.
Stone, Iron
Mid Century American 1960s Black Ceramic Lamp With Brass and Wood Base
Located in Buchanan, NY
A handsome American Mid-Century table lamp dating to the 1960s, featuring a sculptural matte black ceramic body resting on a brass and wood base.
Brass
Italian Neoclassic Scagliola Coffee Table, Ebonized Base, Circa 1750
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Neoclassic-style scagliola table top coffee table with a centered classical scene with a black and white border on an ebonized contemporary base.
Plaster, Wood
$7,800
Arrow base coffee table
Located in New York, NY
Rectangular coffee table with glass top and intersecting arrow base.
Glass
Round Glass Top Coffee Table with Bronze Base, Antique, Mid-Late 1900s
Located in Queens, NY
Round Glass Top Coffee Table with Bronze Base
Glass
Gordon & Jane Martz Round Side Table 19" with Mosaic Tile Top, Walnut Base
By Gordon & Jane Martz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Round side table by Gordon & Jane Martz. The table top is inlaid with cement gray speckled ceramic coin tiles. The frame, base and pedestal of the table are all solid walnut. Di...
Ceramic, Walnut
Gordon & Jane Martz Round Side Table 18" with Mosaic Tile Top, Walnut Base
By Gordon & Jane Martz
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Round side table by Gordon & Jane Martz. The table top is inlaid with cement gray speckled ceramic coin tiles. The frame, base and pedestal of the table are all solid walnut. Di...
Ceramic, Walnut
1970s Mid-Century Modern Ball Lamp in Epoxy Resin on Pine Base
By Andre Cazenave
Located in Den Haag, NL
Very nice Ball lamp .Stone in a resin .Solid Pine round base beathiful effect when lid . One large E27 bulb needed.
Epoxy Resin
Mersman Mahogany Oval Lyre Base Duncan Phyfe Occasion Table
Located in Germantown, MD
A Mersman Mahogany Oval single drawer Lyre Base Duncan Phyfe Occasion Table Measures 30" in width and 22" in length and 27" in height.
Mahogany
Solid Chrome Knoll Coffee Table Base
By Knoll
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Solid chrome heavy base by Knoll.
Chrome
Mid-Century Plexiglass Head Metal Tripod Base Pair of Desk Lamps, 1960s, Germany
Located in Hagenbach, DE
Mid-Century Plexiglass Head Metal Tripod Base Pair of Desk Lamps, 1960s, Germany Minimal and natural design with fabric Very high quality. Fully functional. Original cables and pl...
Metal
Vintage Brass Base Table Lamp
By Mastercraft
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Very nice Mid-Century Modern era brass table lamp with very nice figural crown.
Hollywood Regency Stone Top Table with Sculptural Wrought Iron Scroll Base
Located in Chicago, IL
Hollywood Regency Stone Top Table with Sculptural Wrought Iron Scroll Base Vintage Hollywood Regency table featuring a stone top resting on an elegant wrought iron scroll base.
Stone, Wrought Iron
Z Base Stainless Base Solid Top Coffee Table
By Established Lines, Paul McCobb
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Established Lines, Mid Century Modern or Bauhaus era decor coffee table.
Stainless Steel, Chrome
Vintage Maison Jansen Style Hollywood Regency Chrome & Brass Console Table Base
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A top can be added for use as a dining table, console, or desk. Circa Mid 20th Century.
Brass, Chrome
20th Century Oval Marble Top Wood Base Louis XVI Revival Style Side Table
Located in New York, NY
Vintage decorative marble top table in the manner of Louis XVI, circa 1950/60's. The stand features a thick oval marble top, supported by a one drawer wood base. Probably made in Ita...
Marble, Silver Plate
Brutalist Side Table, Solid Wood with Grape Vine Base, 1950s France
Located in Brooklyn, NY
French side table with a grapevine base from the mid century This table features a round wooden slab top with carved scalloped edges, with a natural grapevine base , all in an orga...
Wood
Unique Organic Wood Base Coffee Center Table
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1960. We offer this Unique Organic Wood Base Coffee Center Table. Made of a piece of solid wood that was eroded by the waves of the sea for many years, due to time shells forme...
Wood
Figural Base Glass Top Side End Table
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Nice vintage figural base coffee table with glass top.
Neoclassical Églomisé Table Lamp Cherub & Porpoise Detail Base
Located in Fulton, CA
Églomisé table lamp with cherub theme. Glass body mounted to a metal base with porpoise detail. Base measures 5.5 inches square.
Metal
Adrian Pearsall Sculptural " Jacks " Side Table Base
By Adrian Pearsall
Located in Wayne, NJ
Adrian Pearsall Sculptural " Jacks " Side Table Base . Ready for your own glass.
Wood
Modern Coffee Table w/ Metal Base
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid-Century Modern style coffee table with butcher block wood top on a metal base.
Metal
Charles Hollis Jones Table with Lucite Base
By Charles Hollis Jones
Located in New York, NY
Elegant three Lucite legs with an aluminum stretcher base supports the original plate glass top (.5 inch thickness ). Design by Charles Hollis Jones. Original, clean, ready to use c...
Chrome
Charles Hollis Jones "Bugle" Base Side Table
By Charles Hollis Jones
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage side table in Lucite and polished nickel designed and manufactured by Charles Hollis Jones and part of his "Bugle" base line. The table is in good vintage condition, the top...
Nickel
Heavy Iron Base Glass Top Console Table
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mid-Century Modern style heavy iron base glass top sofa console table.
Iron
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.
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