1960 Nissen Denmark Eames Era Scandinavian Modern Round Teak Lidded Ice Bucket
By Nissen
Located in Miami, FL
Danish modern handmade round teak lidded ice bucket made by Nissen in Denmark circa late 1960s.
Plastic, Teak
Charles Eames Chaise Longue by Herman Miller, Modern Design, 1970s
By Herman Miller, Charles Eames
Located in bari, IT
The Charles Eames chaise longue is a masterpiece of modern design, created by Herman Miller in the 1970s. This emblematic piece embodies the innovative vision of Charles and Ray Eame...
Metal
Charles Eames lounge chair for Herman Miller 1970s. (first production )
By Herman Miller, Charles Eames
Located in bari, IT
The Charles Eames chaise longue is a masterpiece of modern design, created by Herman Miller in the 1970s. This emblematic piece embodies the innovative vision of Charles and Ray Eame...
Metal
Early Rare Teak LCM by Charles Eames for Herman Miller
By Herman Miller, Charles Eames
Located in Pittsburgh, PA
All original, beautiful Herman Miller LCM designed by Charles Eames. A wonderful, well maintained example in rare Teak veneer.
Steel
Unavailable
H 29.93 in W 66.15 in D 17.72 in
Greaves & Thomas Teak Sideboard Midcentury G Plan Eames Era
By Greaves and Thomas
Located in Greater Manchester, GB
Greaves & Thomas are renowned for their innovative and stunning designs and this teak sideboard with its intricate inset pulls is a wonderful example of how they brought exotic mater...
Teak
Unavailable
H 30.32 in W 83.86 in D 19.69 in
Gunter Hoffstead for Uniflex Teak Sideboard Credenza G Plan Eames Era
By Gunther Hoffstead, Uniflex
Located in Greater Manchester, GB
Uniflex furniture, a very British firm, were sadly ahead of their time in the Mid Century period and whilst they embraced the design ideals of modernism perfectly, their designs at t...
Teak
Unavailable
H 27.37 in W 61.03 in D 17.13 in
Austinsuite Teak Compact Sideboard Storage Credenza Danish G Plan Eames Era
By Austinsuite
Located in Greater Manchester, GB
Austinsuite of London soon emerged as a leader in quality midcentury furniture produced in the UK and standing up against fierce competition from both home and abroad taking on the g...
Teak
Danish Teak Sideboard Media Unit G Plan Eames Era
Located in Greater Manchester, GB
When it comes to innovative design, the Mid-Century era was dominated by the highly talented Danish designers whose skills and eye for detail produced some of the finest furniture wh...
Unavailable
H 24.81 in W 31.5 in D 16.15 in
Swedish Teak Chest of Drawers with Inset Pulls G Plan Eames Era
Located in Greater Manchester, GB
While the world focuses on the designs of the Danish manufacturers during the Mid-Century era, their Swedish counterparts are often overlooked despite producing some of the most intr...
Teak
Unavailable
H 16.15 in W 48.43 in D 18.71 in
Danish Teak and Glass Coffee Table Magazine Shelf G Plan Eames Era
Located in Greater Manchester, GB
Danish style design was all about elegance, sophistication and simplicity, combing materials to create beautiful furniture coupled with quality craftsmanship. This beautiful table w...
Art Glass, Teak
Herman Miller Eames Dining Table
By Charles and Ray Eames, Herman Mijnerts Doncker
Located in New London, CT
In 1964, the office of Charles and Ray Eames designed a table with a single segmented base, constructed of modular units that could support tops of different lengths and widths. T...
Aluminum
Unavailable
H 41.34 in W 62.6 in D 24.02 in
Turnidge Teak Metamorphic Home Bar Dry Bar, G Plan Eames Era Midcentury
By Turnidge Furniture
Located in Greater Manchester, GB
Turnidge of London created stunning furniture ranges from the UK based design studios, taking everyday and popular items and adding a unique and very British twist establishing them ...
Teak
Unavailable
H 29.93 in W 84.26 in D 17.72 in
Nathan Corinthian Teak Sideboard Credenza G Plan Eames Era
By Nathan Furniture
Located in Greater Manchester, GB
Nathan Furniture have always been a name associated with quality and style and during the 1960s, their designs led the way in bringing the Danish style to the UK Market. The Natha...
Unavailable
H 29.53 in W 84.06 in D 18.51 in
Macintosh of Kirkcaldy Teak Inset Handle Sideboard Storage Unit G Plan Eames Era
By A.H. McIntosh Furniture
Located in Greater Manchester, GB
McIntosh of Kirkcaldy arguably are one of the best of not the best of the British Mid-Century designers creating some of the most high quality and desirable furniture of the period. ...
Teak
Unavailable
H 36.03 in W 26.97 in D 16.54 in
Danish Teak Tallboy Chest of Drawers with Turned Handles G Plan Eames Era
Located in Greater Manchester, GB
There is no doubting the exceptional skills and design talent that Denmark produced in the mid-20th century making them the forefront of the Mid-Century design movement and providing...
Teak
Charles and Ray Eames LCW for Herman Miller
By Charles and Ray Eames, Herman Miller
Located in Brussels, BE
LCW by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller in original condition. Labelled: Herman Miller, Zeeland Michigan. Legs attached with 5/2/4 screw configuration.
Teak
Unavailable
H 29.14 in W 18.12 in D 25.99 in
Danish Teak and Black Vinyl Lounge Chair Retro Eames G Plan Era
Located in Greater Manchester, GB
The Danish designers of the mid-20th century were masters of their craft taking utilitarian pieces and redesigning them with a style and panache all of their own! Utilising new techn...
Unavailable
H 30 in W 72 in D 20 in
George Tanier / Moebler Danish Denmark stereo console mcm lk eames scandinavian
Located in Madison, WI
“If art decorates space… and music is the art that decorates time, then our vintage stereo consoles decorate lives by accentuating both.” This console: This is a console refurbished...
Teak
Unavailable
H 25 in W 36 in D 36 in
Electrohome 703 Circa 75 stereo console radio record player (eames baughman lk)
Located in Madison, WI
“If art decorates space… and music is the art that decorates time, then our vintage stereo consoles decorate lives by accentuating both.” This console: This is a console refurbished...
Teak
Unavailable
H 29 in W 63 in D 25 in
Electrohome 701 Circa 75 stereo console radio record player (eames baughman lk)
Located in Madison, WI
“If art decorates space… and music is the art that decorates time, then our vintage stereo consoles decorate lives by accentuating both.” This console: We acquire our pieces from v...
Teak
Unavailable
H 39.77 in W 33.86 in D 34.65 in
G Plan Wingbacked Blofeld Swivel Chair Model 6250 Black Leather Eames Era
By G Plan Furniture, Paul Conti
Located in Greater Manchester, GB
Dubbed “The most confirmable chair in the world”, the G Plan 6250 wingbacked swivel armchair in sumptuous black leather was the brain child of legendary designer Paul Conti in 1976 f...
Brass
Unavailable
H 41.34 in W 29.14 in D 16.15 in
Danish Tallboy Chest Drawers with Inset Rosewood Handles G Plan Eames Era
Located in Greater Manchester, GB
There is no doubting the exceptional skills and design talent that Denmark produced in the mid-20th century making them the forefront of the midcentury design movement and providing ...
Rosewood, Teak
Unavailable
H 16.15 in W 19.69 in D 16.15 in
G Plan Quadrille Stool Footstool Retro Mid-Century Black Vinyl Eames Era
By G Plan Furniture
Located in Greater Manchester, GB
1965 could be argued as one of the best years for G Plan design with R Bennett creating the stunning Quadrille range of furniture in luxurious Teak with beautiful geometric styled le...
Faux Leather, Teak
Unavailable
H 17 in W 21 in D 21 in
Ib Kofod-Larsen for G Plan Danish Range Footstool Eames Mid-Century Era
By G Plan Furniture, Ib Kofod-Larsen
Located in Greater Manchester, GB
There is no doubting the exceptional skill as a designer that Kofod Larsen showed throughout his long and illustrious career with pieces for a range of companies proving increasingly...
Fabric, Teak
Eames Teak and Leather Sofa by Herman Miller
By Charles and Ray Eames, Herman Miller
Located in Highland, IN
The teak sofa by Charles and Ray Eames was the last design the husband and wife team created.
Aluminum
Sold
H 29 in W 54 in D 34 in
Eames Teak Dining Table 'DTM' and Eiffel Chairs 'DSR' Set for Herman Miller
By Charles Eames, Herman Miller
Located in Philadelphia, PA
This five-piece group was purchased as a set in 1957. It features four greige colored fiberglass dining chairs, and a rarely seen large DTM in teak. All are marked with appropriate l...
Steel
Sold
H 38.59 in W 31.5 in D 32.68 in
Midcentury Selig Lounge Chair & Ottoman Eames Style, Teak & Black Leather
By Selig
Located in Brussels, Brussels
Midcentury Lounge Chair and matching Ottoman by Selig, USA. Inspired by the Eames 670 Lounge Chair. Restored, new upholstery with high-quality Swiss leather, the plywood shells ha...
Steel, Chrome
Teak and Leather Settee by Charles and Ray Eames
Located in Sagaponack, NY
Leather upholstered aluminum framed settee/ loveseat with solid teak back and seat panels. Design by Charles and Ray Eames made by Herman Miller
Leather
Eames Sofa ES108 by Charles and Ray Eames for Herman Miller 1980s
By Herman Miller, Charles and Ray Eames
Located in Saint Paul, MN
The ES108 is unique in the lore of the Eameses as it was the last design completed by the Eames Office. A hybrid of the Soft Pad Group and the Eames Lounge Chair and Ottoman, the ES1...
Aluminum
Eames Style Office Chair
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Bent Teak Plywood Back and Seat with Black Upholstered Cushions and Cast Aluminum Arms and Base by Martin Stool. Original Upholstery.
Teak
Eames for Herman Miller Three-Seat Soft Pad Sofa
By Charles and Ray Eames, Herman Miller
Located in Las Vegas, NV
This is a true Iconinc Eames soft pad sofa. Referred to as "The Last Piece" "The Eames sofa was the last piece of furniture designed by the Eames design office. An earlier model d...
Aluminum
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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