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Period: Mid-20th Century
Charles and Ray Eames Molded Plywood Leg Splint for Evans in Original Wrapper
By Evans Products Company, Charles and Ray Eames
Located in Chicago, IL
These leg splints were designed by Charles and Ray Eames and produced for the United States Navy by the Evans Products Company, molded plywood division. They're still in their origin...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Scientific Instruments
Materials
Plywood
Frederic Weinberg Bird Cage Shaped Planter Hanging Fixture with Onion Dome Top
By Frederic Weinberg
Located in Chicago, IL
This bird cage shaped hanging fixture was originally designed by Frederic Weinberg as a planter. A slight variation of this design was also available as an actual bird cage, but I can find no reference to it having been offered by Frederic Weinberg as a ceiling fixture. So I assume it was converted to a hanging fixture for its original owner, where it hung in the center of a circular staircase.
The form is of a stylized tower with an onion dome...
Category
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants
Materials
Wrought Iron
Orrefors Ariel Glass Vase with Busts of Women Designed by Edvin Öhrström 1960
By Orrefors, Edvin Öhrström
Located in Chicago, IL
This Orrefors Ariel glass vase was designed by Edvin Öhrström and produced in 1960, as indicated by the markings on the bottom of the vase. The vase f...
Category
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Glass
Materials
Art Glass
Lawson Art Deco Digital Table Clock Designed by Ferher and Adomatis
By Lawson Time Inc.
Located in Chicago, IL
This handsome, digital table clock was made in the 1930s by Lawson Time, a clock manufacturer in Los Angeles, California. It was one of several clocks designed for them in the Art Deco style by Ferher and Adomatis, presumably Paul Feher...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Table Clocks and Desk Clocks
Materials
Nickel, Brass
Jane and Gordon Martz Ceramic Tile and Walnut Bookends for Marshall Studios
By Gordon & Jane Martz, Marshall Studios
Located in Chicago, IL
These ceramic tile and walnut bookends were designed and made by Jane and Gordon Martz for Marshall Studios. The rectangular forms are softened by the loose brush strokes in the glaz...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Bookends
Materials
Walnut, Ceramic
Pair Van Keppel Green VKG Iron Candelabras Candleholders with Varying Heights
Located in Chicago, IL
This pair of iron candelabras or candleholders by Van Keppel Green (VKG) are two different variations from the same line of decorative accesso...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Candelabras
Materials
Wrought Iron
Jens Risom Rectangular Side Table with Walnut Base and White Laminate Top
By Jens Risom
Located in Chicago, IL
This rectangular side table by Jens Risom has a walnut base and a white laminate surface. The legs are cleverly inset, giving the top a floating quality and an overall jauntiness to ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Materials
Laminate, Walnut
Giltwood Wall Mirror with Interlocking Double Oval Design
Located in Chicago, IL
This elegant, giltwood wall mirror has a design of two interlocking ovals. The frames are deep, with a refined curve to the profile.
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Materials
Giltwood, Mirror
Rectangular Giltwood Wall Mirror with Arched Top
Located in Chicago, IL
The arched top provides a pleasing variation to the standard rectangular form of this giltwood wall mirror. The deep frame gives a subtle shadowbox effect.
Category
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Wrought Iron Serpents Table with Hand Tooled Star Pattern on Brass Top
Located in Chicago, IL
This unique table has handwrought iron serpents for legs. Their coiled tails form their bases, then their heads rise up above the surface of the table. Th...
Category
Vintage 1950s Unknown Moorish Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass, Wrought Iron
Set of Four Cube Coffee or Side Tables with Iron Frames and Glass Tops
Located in Chicago, IL
This circa 1950s or 1960s set of four cube tables have open frame iron bases and glass tops. They can be used together as a coffee or cocktail table, separately as side tables or cha...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Materials
Iron
Ben Seibel Iron Base Floor Lamp for Raymor with White Glass Cylinder Shade
By Ben Seibel, Raymor
Located in Chicago, IL
This Minimalist, Mid-Century Modern floor lamp was designed by Ben Seibel for Raymor. It has an iron frame with a black finish and a circular base and shade support. The shade is a w...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Iron
Chase Art Deco Chrome Champagne Ice Bucket Lurelle Guild Rockwell Kent Design
By Chase Brass and Copper Company, Rockwell Kent
Located in Chicago, IL
This chrome-plated champagne bucket has a Classic Art Deco style. The top edge is stepped and trimmed with a ribbed band; the front is adorned with a decorative plaque depicting Bacc...
Category
Vintage 1930s American Art Deco Barware
Materials
Chrome
D. Peterson Ceramic Pitcher and Cups Set Dated 1956
By D. Peterson
Located in Chicago, IL
This handmade ceramic pitcher and cups set has classically simple forms. The glaze treatment is wonderfully irregular, embracing the spontaneity of the process. The darker glaze on t...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Design Technics Ceramic Platter Attributed to Lee Rosen
By Lee Rosen, Design Technics
Located in Chicago, IL
This ceramic platter attributed to Lee Rosen for Design Technics is a functional decorative art object. It's lovely to look at, and it also makes an excellent serving plate or tray. ...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Wood Nutcracker Designed by Carl Auböck III
By Werkstätte Carl Auböck
Located in Chicago, IL
This nutcracker by Carl Auböck III by is a simply elegant design. The wooden sides feel very nice in hand, and the ebony and maple contrast and complem...
Category
Vintage 1950s Austrian Mid-Century Modern Barware
Materials
Ebony, Maple
Bitossi for Rosenthal Netter Italian Ceramic Vase Brown with Purple Lava Glaze
By Rosenthal Netter
Located in Chicago, IL
Ceramic vase made in Italy by Bitossi for Rosenthal-Netter. The vivid purple lava glaze with bright red accents flows down over the chocolate brown base color. This is a classic example of mid-century modern Italian pottery...
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Frederick C. Boger Brass and Travertine Coffee Cocktail Table
By Frederick C. Boger
Located in Chicago, IL
This custom-made coffee or cocktail table was designed by Chicago architect, Industrial designer, and furniture maker Frederick C. (Fred) Boger. The brass base is beautifully made wi...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Travertine, Brass
Floor Lamp with Black and Chrome Base and White Glass Globe Shade
By Sonneman Lighting
Located in Chicago, IL
This mid-century modern floor lamp has a round black base, five chrome stems forming a tapered stand and a white glass globe shade. It throws a broad...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps
Materials
Chrome
Edmund Ronaky Ceramic Bowl Dish Hand painted Under Glaze California Potter
By Edmund Ronaky
Located in Chicago, IL
This fun ceramic dish by California potter Edmund Ronaky has a free form and a two-part shape. It has a high gloss glaze over a design of a worried ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Clay
Large Scale Wall Sculpture of Enameled Flowers in a Brutalist Vase
Located in Chicago, IL
Large-scale, Brutalist wall sculpture of a vase of flowers. The torch cut vase has numerous small holes and notches around the top into which you can insert and arrange the enameled ...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Copper
Italian Ceramic Vase Double Cone Shape with White Over Black Glaze
By Fausto Melotti
Located in Chicago, IL
This tall ceramic vase has a double cone shape with a low "waist". The white glaze over the black base coat is loosely applied with varied thickness and tiny air bubbles overall. The...
Category
Vintage 1950s Mid-Century Modern Ceramics
Materials
Ceramic
Jacob Bang White Glass Bottle for Kastrup Denmark with Teak Stopper Raymor
By Raymor, Jacob Bang
Located in Chicago, IL
This elegant decanter in white cased glass with teak stopper was designed by Jacob Bang. It retains its original paper labels for Kastrup, the maker, and Raymor, the distributor.
Pl...
Category
Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Glass
Materials
Glass, Teak
David Cressey Ceramic Table Lamp for Architectural Pottery with Textured Surface
By Architectural Pottery, David Cressey
Located in Chicago, IL
Ceramic table lamp designed by David Cressey for Architectural Pottery. It has a speckled brown glaze over a creamy base color and a textural surface treatment of freely applied squi...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps
Materials
Ceramic
Dr. Peter Schlumbohm for Chemex Glass Water Kettle with Cork Balls Stopper
By Peter Schlumbohm, Chemex
Located in Chicago, IL
This stylish glass water kettle is from the Chemex line of housewares. It's the perfect companion piece to the Chemex drip coffee maker. The glass-stemmed stopper has a cork ball on ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Industrial Glass
Materials
Cork, Glass
Brass Plated Hand-Wrought Iron Andirons and Fireplace Fender
Located in Chicago, IL
Brass-plated wrought iron fireplace set consisting of andirons with removable cross bar and fire fender. The set features twisted and coiled...
Category
Vintage 1930s Andirons
Materials
Iron
Sculptural Mahogany Coffee Table with Brass Legs and Carved Birds and Fish
Located in Chicago, IL
Sculptural zigzag coffee table in mahogany with slender, tapered brass legs. It has a stepped rim around the edges with rounded corners. The top is a wonderfully carved relief sculpt...
Category
Vintage 1950s Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Materials
Brass
Jens Quistgaard for Dansk Rare Woods Palisander Bow Tie Shaped Tray Rosewood
By Jens Quistgaard, Dansk
Located in Chicago, IL
Tripart rosewood tray in the form of an elongated bow tie, designed by Jens Quistgaard for Dansk. The bow tie shape is repeated on the tray as little inlaid pieces running perpendicu...
Category
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Platters and Serveware
Materials
Palisander
Multicolored Murano Glass Tricorn Bowl with Abstract Designs
By Dino Martens
Located in Chicago, IL
This petite, Murano glass tricorn bowl with patchy, multicolored designs was done after the style of the Italian glass artist, Dino Martens.
Please contact us if you have any questi...
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Blown Glass
Teak Three-Tier Server Portable Dessert Cake Stand With Ring Handle Tripod Legs
Located in Chicago, IL
This three tier, teak tripod dessert server / stand has a Scandinavian modern style, a tripod construction for stability, and a ring handle for portability. Its country of origin is ...
Category
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Serving Pieces
Materials
Teak
Nineteen Inch Tall Rosenthal Columnar Form Porcelain Vase Germany
By Rosenthal
Located in Chicago, IL
This Rosenthal porcelain vase is classically elegant with a faceted columnar form and a satiny white glaze. The slender form and substantial height will allow for tall and dramatic f...
Category
Vintage 1960s German Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Porcelain
"Basket of Eggs" Painting on Board by Chicago Artist Stanley Mitruk 1958
By Stanley Mitruk
Located in Chicago, IL
Painting on board of an atmospheric still life of eggs in a cloth draped basket by Chicago artist Stanley Mitruk titled "Basket of Eggs", dated 1958.
Measurements given below are ...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Modern Paintings
Materials
Paint, Wood
"White Roses" Still Life Painting by Chicago Artist Stanley Mitruk
Located in Chicago, IL
Painting on board of an atmospheric still life of roses in a glass vase by Chicago artist Stanley Mitruk titled "White Roses", dated 1958.
Measuremen...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Paintings
Materials
Wood, Paint
Alvar Aalto Mahogany Desk for Artek with Drawers and Pull Out Work Surfaces
By Alvar Aalto
Located in Chicago, IL
The model #500 mahogany desk designed by Alvar Aalto, made in Sweden for Artek, Finland. Six drawers with two pull-out work surface boards. A nice example...
Category
Vintage 1940s Swedish Scandinavian Modern Desks
Materials
Mahogany
Turned Rosewood Bowl by Salisbury ArtisansCirca 1950s Turned Wood
By Salisbury Artisans
Located in Chicago, IL
Beautifully turned rosewood bowl by Salisbury Artisans of Salisbury, CT, circa 1950s. This is a nice example of a modern take on a traditional turne...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls
Materials
Rosewood
