$295
H 15.5 in W 17 in D 11.75 in
Mid-Century Black and White Pilastro Telephone Table with Perforated Rack
By Pilastro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
1960's Pilastro telephone table with white top, black perforated slanted magazine rack and chrome
Metal, Chrome
Mid Century Hand Painted Enamel on Copper Tray - Signed - Circa 1960
Located in Chatham, ON
Mid Century enamel on copper pin tray with hand-painted flowers - black enamel to the base - signed
Copper, Enamel
Umbrella Stand 1960s
Located in Ljubljana, SI
. Umbrella stand is made of brass, varnished solid teak wood sides and white enamelled rods and drip tray
Brass, Sheet Metal
$1,328Sale Price|53% Off
H 26 in W 27 in D 15.25 in
1950's Bar Cart with Tubular Steel Frame & Perforated Shelves, After Matégot
By Tjerk Reijenga, Mathieu Matégot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
black tubular steel, supporting two enameled off-white perforated trays that appear to float within the
Steel
Sold
H 1.25 in W 16.5 in D 19.5 in
Pilastro Attributed Mategot Style White Enameled Perforated Metal Serving Tray
By Pilastro, Mathieu Matégot
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mategot style white enameled perforated metal serving tray, attributed to Pilastro. In original
Metal
Sold
H 1.75 in W 19.75 in D 13.75 in
Mathieu Mategot White Lacquer Perforated Serving Tray, France, 1950
By Mathieu Matégot
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mathieu Mategot (1910-2001),white lacquer clover perforated serving tray, France, c. 1950 Metal
Metal, Enamel
Mathieu Matégot Style Pilastro Bar Cart with Removable Tray
By Pilastro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Black enameled frame and perforated metal lower shelf with newly powder coated black and white
Metal
Sold
H 14 in W 17.75 in D 14.25 in
Pilastro Wire Frame Side Table with Perforated Magazine Rack in Black and White
By Tjerk Reijenga, Pilastro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
magazine holder and black and white enameled metal trays. Wear consistent with age and use, including
Metal
Sold
H 15.25 in W 15.75 in D 13 in
Mid Century Perforated Metal Nesting Tables by Floris Fiedeldij for Artimeta
By Floris H. Fiedeldij, Artimeta
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Industrial Artimeta nesting tables with perforated white enameled metal trays on black enameled
Metal
Wm. Rietveld 535 "Mosquito" Coffee Table
By Wim Rietveld, Gispen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
for Gispen. Black Metal Frame with White Enameled Metal Tray. Original Condition - Tray is Visibly
Metal
Pilastro Perforated Metal Wall Mount Magazine Rack or Shelf
By Pilastro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
bone white enameled metal key tray good original condition with wear consistent with its age and usage.
Metal
Mathieu Mategot Style Bar Cart
By Pilastro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
White Enameled Removable Metal Tray.
Mathieu Mategot Style Perforated Metal Nesting Tables by Artimeta
By Mathieu Matégot, Artimeta
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Set of 2 Mathieu Mategot inspired nesting tables with perforated white enameled metal trays on
Metal
Wim Rietveld 535 "Mosquito" Side Table
By Wim Rietveld, Gispen
Located in Los Angeles, CA
enameled metal mosquito leg-like frame with enameled white metal tray and glass top. In original condition
Metal
Sold
H 1.19 in W 17.33 in D 11.03 in
Mathieu Mategot Mid-Century Modern White Enameled Metal Tray, circa 1950
By Mathieu Matégot
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Enameled metal tray designed by Mathieu Mate´got. Manufactured by Ateliers Mate´got (France
Metal
Sold
H 1.5 in W 11.5 in D 17.25 in
Mathieu Matégot White Tray, Perforated Metal, Brass, Enamel, France, circa 1950
By Mathieu Matégot
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mathieu Matégot (1910-2001) White tray, France, circa 1950 Perforated metal, brass rod detail
Metal, Brass
French Midcentury Enameled Iron Umbrella Stand
Located in Winter Park, FL
tree. Demilune form base with a removable white enameled metal drip tray. Weight: 19 lbs.
Metal, Iron
Beautiful Early Florence Knoll Desk and Return for Knoll International
By Florence Knoll
Located in Dallas, TX
three sliding trays each having 5 white enameled stationary dividers. Trays can be extended and
Cane, Laminate, Wood
Medusa Tray by Piero Fornasetti
By Fornasetti
Located in London, GB
Large green & white enameled tray with Medusa motif by Piero Fornasetti, c.1960, Italy
Metal
1950's Italian Wooden Bar or Serving Cart
Located in Paris, FR
A beautiful 1950s Italian mid-century-modern serving cart designed with refined gold brass rollers. Its features two glass tiers and bottle holders at the top. The wooden frame is bu...
Brass
$13,309
H 31.5 in W 25.6 in D 22.84 in
Rare Mid-Century Modern Copacabana Chair by Mathieu Matégot, 1954
By Mathieu Matégot
Located in Paris, FR
A rare collectible vintage lounge Copacabana chair by iconic French designer Mathieu Matégot composed of curved tubular steel legs and structure. This particular edition is distingui...
Steel
French 1950s Wrought Iron Garden Table
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Painted wrought iron garden table with a cloverleaf-patterned top with a twisted iron surround and an elegant scrolled base.
Wrought Iron
1930's industrial convex mirror
Located in Brecht, BE
industrial convex mirror ... big scale ... 124 cm in diameter ... distressed mirror glass ... as we love ...
Iron
$1,996
H 29.93 in W 30.32 in D 16.54 in
Midcentury Cesare Lacca Italian Serving Trolley Bar Cart in Wood and Glass, 1950
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Roma, IT
Gorgeous midcentury serving bar cart in wood and glass with brass handles. This charming and unique bar cart was designed by Cesare Lacca and produced in Italy during the 1950s. In...
Brass
Scandinavian mid-century modern solid brass wall sconce
Located in Turku, Varsinais-Suomi
Illuminate your space with the timeless elegance of our Scandinavian mid-century modern solid brass wall sconce. This meticulously crafted piece embodies the essence of Scandinavian ...
Brass
Mategot Style Perforated Yellow Wall Mount Shelf by Pilastro
By Mathieu Matégot, Pilastro
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage Pilastro perforated, yellow enameled metal wall mounted, single shelf. Newly painted and lightly refinished. In good condition with some remaining visible wear consistent wit...
Metal
Modern Iron and Leather Serving Side Table Cart
Located in Westwood, NJ
Modern iron and leather serving side table and cart. This smaller two-tiered round serving cart sits on gold casters and is accented with hand-antiqued and tooled leather-covered she...
Iron
$1,814
H 29.14 in W 32.29 in D 16.93 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 dry bar cabinet cart with two glass tiers and highlighted by the great wooden structure design and overall shape completed by the details of ...
Brass
Kazuo Motozawa for Staff Leuchten Chrome "Saturno" Hanging Lamp, C. 1972
By Kazuo Motozawa, Staff Leuchten
Located in Bainbridge, NY
Saturno Chrome Honeycomb Pendant by Kazuo Motozawa for Staff Leutchen, Germany. Featuring reflective, rounded and vented chrome exterior rimmed rings with off white interior. Diffuse...
Chrome, Metal
Floor Table lamp "Noce" by Achille Castiglioni for Flos , 1970s
By Flos, Achille Castiglioni
Located in Padova, IT
Condition: good with some inevitable signs of time and use - see photos Achille Castiglioni (Milan, February 16, 1918 - Milan, December 2, 2002) was an Italian architect and designe...
Metal
Jordi Vilanova i Bosch large cabinet Spain 1970
By Jordi Vilanova i Bosch
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
This spectacular cabinet, designed and produced by Jordi Vilanova i Bosch in Spain during the 1970s, is an impressive example of mid-century design that combines functionality with s...
Glass, Laminate, Pine
Arts and Crafts Embossed Brass Stick Stand, Umbrella Stand
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Arts and Crafts Embossed Brass Stick Stand, Umbrella Stand A Good looking piece, the stand is round with an embossed tavern scene showing jolly merry making musicians It is 17”...
Brass
French 1950s Green Painted Iron Coffee Table
Located in Isle Sur La Sorgue, Vaucluse
Unusual rectangular coffee table, the base made up of a series of six arches, giving the table a dynamic feel (an arch at each side, and two intersecting ones, making up a stretcher ...
Granite, Iron
Mid century modern 70s italian modular sofa
Located in Palermo, PA
Step into the vibrant world of 1970s Italy with this stunning modular sofa, a true gem of mid-century design. Wrapped in its original high-quality velvet fabric, this piece boasts a ...
Metal
Very Rare Midcentury Floor Lamp Drukov, 1970s
By Josef Hurka, Drukov
Located in Praha, CZ
- very rare type - rare colors - very nice style of lighting
Metal
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.
With its grid-like doors and wavy trim, the 1940s design feels as fresh as ever.
The alluring pendant light exemplifies the designer’s winsome mid-career work.
Prehistoric motifs give the mid-century Italian fireplace an elemental feel.
Their charming solid-oak pieces offer homes utility and comfort.
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You know the designs, now get the stories about how they came to be.
Designer Susan Yeley turned to 1stDibs to outfit an Indiana home with standout pieces that complement its modernist style.
Whether you’re just moving in or ready to give your home a makeover, our guide will give you pointers on tables that are fitting for every room, nook and hallway.