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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Stools
Steel
Early 2000s French Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Metal
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Steel
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Metal
Early 2000s French Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Metal
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Metal
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Metal
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Armchairs
Metal
Vintage 1930s French Beds and Bed Frames
Metal
Mid-20th Century French Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Steel
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Beds and Bed Frames
Metal
Mid-20th Century French Modern Chairs
Steel
Vintage 1940s Russian Scandinavian Modern Stools
Steel
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Beds and Bed Frames
Metal
Vintage 1950s French Modern Daybeds
Metal
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
Vintage 1930s French Armchairs
Sheet Metal
Vintage 1930s French Desks and Writing Tables
Iron
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Steel
Vintage 1930s French Side Tables
Metal
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Metal
20th Century Books
Paper
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Benches
Velvet, Wood
Early 20th Century French Art Deco Daybeds
Metal
Vintage 1960s Mid-Century Modern Benches
Wood
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Metal
Vintage 1930s French Mid-Century Modern Prints
Paper
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Dishes and Vide-Poche
Ceramic
Vintage 1960s French Contemporary Art
Canvas
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Benches
Fabric, Wood
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Benches
Wood, Velvet
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Metal
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Stools
Wood, Pine
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Oak
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Tables
Elm
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Mirrors
Marble, Metal, Iron
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Chairs
Steel
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Side Tables
Wood
2010s Lounge Chairs
Plexiglass
Vintage 1960s French Mid-Century Modern Stools
Elm
2010s French Armchairs
Fabric, Oak
2010s French Armchairs
Fabric, Oak
2010s French Sofas
Fabric, Oak
2010s French Sofas
Fabric, Oak
2010s French Armchairs
Fabric, Oak
Mid-20th Century French Modern Dining Room Chairs
Metal
2010s French Side Tables
Oak
2010s French Side Tables
Oak
2010s French Stools
Fabric, Oak
2010s French Stools
Fabric, Oak
2010s French Console Tables
Travertine, Brass
2010s French Console Tables
Marble, Brass
2010s French Coffee and Cocktail Tables
Marble
Vintage 1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Cabinets
Wood
Vintage 1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs
Metal
Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables
Metal
2010s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Aluminum, Brass, Steel
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Chairs
Steel
2010s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Aluminum, Brass, Steel
2010s French Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces
Aluminum, Brass, Steel
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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 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
- Emerged during the mid-20th century
- Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
- A heyday of innovation in postwar America
- Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
- Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
- A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
- Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
- Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
- Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
- Promotion of functionality
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
- Charles and Ray Eames
- Eero Saarinen
- Milo Baughman
- Florence Knoll
- Harry Bertoia
- Isamu Noguchi
- George Nelson
- Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
- Eames lounge chair
- Nelson daybed
- Florence Knoll sofa
- Egg chair
- Womb chair
- Noguchi coffee table
- Barcelona chair
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 legendary 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.
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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