Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
MID-CENTURY MODERN STYLE
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 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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Style: Mid-Century Modern
Paul Evans Style Cityscape Mixed Metal Patchwork Chest
Located in Houston, TX
Paul Evans style cityscape mixed metal patchwork chest.
Handsome Paul Evans style cityscape mixed metal patchwork chest, box, coffer or document box. ...
Category
1970s North American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Vintage Enamel Metal & Mahogany Box by Piero Fornasetti - Horse & Buggy
Located in North Miami, FL
Serigraphy of a period horse and buggy on enameled metal and mahogany interior box by Piero Fornasetti, 1950's.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Bitossi Box, Ceramic, Blue, Green, White Stripes, Signed
By Bitossi
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi box, ceramic, blue, green, white stripes, signed. Small scale colorful lidded box decorated with a tight hard edge pattern of blue, green and white stripes...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
1960s Bitossi Red Pottery Lidded Box Relief Design Italy
By Bitossi
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Midcentury Italian Red Black decorative pottery lidded box
Decoration in geometric relief.
attributed Bitossi
Stamped Italy
6 x 4.38 x 2 H inches
Presentation unrestored, original vi...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pottery
Bitossi Box, Ceramic, Applied Discs, Blue, Purple, White, Brown, Signed
By Bitossi
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi box, ceramic, applied discs, blue, purple, white, brown, signed. The lid is a coarse dark chocolate clay decorated with rows of applied glazed discs in violet (purple) and bl...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Bitossi Raymor Box, Ceramic, Metallic Platinum Silver, Black, Iridescent, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi for Raymor box, ceramic, metallic chrome silver, black, signed. Small scale lidded box with a top glazed in metallic silver platinum and black. The ...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Rosenthal Netter Box, Ceramic, Yellow, Black, White, Brown, Geometric, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi for Rosenthal Netter box, ceramic, yellow, black, white, brown, geometric, signed. Small scale lidded box decorated with angular geometric pattern i...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Handcrafted Jewelry Box by Bay Area Artist Dean Santner c.1970
By Dean Santner
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
Original studio, handcrafted wood jewelry box by California woodworker, Dean Santner. Expertly crafted in walnut. Pull out center drawer lined in blue felt.
CREATOR Dean ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Felt, Walnut
A Baccarat Apricot Crystal Paperweight Box Mounted w/ Ormolu Bezel, Mid 1900's
By Baccarat
Located in New York, NY
A Very Fine, Antique Mid-Century Modern French Baccarat (attributed) Paper-Weight Glass, Apricot Color Rectangular Shaped Box Mounted With a Very Fine Hand-Chiseled Ormolu Mounted Be...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Crystal, Bronze
Bitossi for Raymor Box, Ceramic, White, Black, and Brown, Signed
Located in New York, NY
Bitossi for Raymor box, ceramic white, black, and brown, signed. Small lidded box glazed in chocolate brown, white and black from Aldo Londi's Piastrelle Bi...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
1980 Italian Crystal & Black Murano Glass Round Box Worked with 24Kt Gold Dust
Located in New York, NY
1980s Venetian high-quality decorative trinket jewel glass box of imposing size and Hollywood Regency style, entirely handcrafted and blown in black Murano glass, extensively worked ...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold, Gold Leaf
1974 Ice Box/Bucket by Cini & Nils Studio O.P.I. Milano, White Acrylic, Italy
Located in San Diego, CA
MarCo Melocchi and Franco Bettonica of O.P.I. Design, designed this extraordinary table design in 1974. This is an original design from the early Seventies. It’s iconic minimal desig...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Acrylic
Silvered Bronze Box with Relief Cast Poem by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A wonderful jewelry box in silvered cast bronze by Parisian art jeweler Line Vautrin (1913-1997). From a small special series, the designer created circa 1945-55. on which poems were cast in relief on the cover. Most existing examples features poems that are well-known. This poem, however, was not identified by us, and possibly is a creation of the artist herself. It is a very soulful prose (see the full poem in French below). Signed on the base as shown.
We have a gilt bronze box with the same relief cast poem that comes with a three-page Certification in French by Comite Line Vautrin, shown in some photos as well.
Reference: For other boxes with poems see "Line Vautrin Sculptor, Jeweller, Magician by Line Vautrin and Patrick Mauries, page 42.
"Les glaciers vagabonds qui ébranlent les murs
et les anges frileux qui cherchent un asile quand la nuit de décembre
anesthésie la ville t’effraient plus que les morts tutélaires et durs
Ils désertent pour toi...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Porcelain Casket, Limoges, France
By Limoges
Located in Chorzów, PL
Porcelain casket, Limoges. France
Angelique collection.
Category
1980s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Porcelain
Vintage Arden Company Milk. Crane Wood and Metal Storage Box.
Located in Seattle, WA
Circa 1961. Ardent Forms Metal and wood Crate. Wording has been embossed into the wood.Rustic vintage. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured.
Dimensions. 19 W ; 13 D ; 1...
Category
1960s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Porcelain Gucci Lidded Box with Incense 420 Holder
By Gucci
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A wonderful porcelain box with the Gucci logo. Originally sold as a set for Incense, the holder is also included with some incense. We would suggest usi...
Category
20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic, Porcelain
Mid Century Modern Cobalt Blue Fused Glass Teak Trinket Box by Robert Brown
By Robert Brown
Located in Troy, MI
Striking glass lidded trinket or jewelry box by Robert W Brown circa 1960s
Teak construction with cobalt blue sculptural fused glass inset top
8" wide
4" deep
2" height
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Art Glass, Teak
Bitossi Decorative Lidded Box
By Bitossi
Located in San Francisco, CA
Bitossi decorative ceramic lidded box, Italy. Sophisticated table top box for jewelry, cards or hide the T.V. remote. In very good original condition.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Decorative Malachite and Brass Hinged Box by Los Castillo of Mexico
By Los Castillo
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful inlaid detail of three swans in brass and bronze on a malachite and sodalite background adorn the top of this hinged box which was made by Los Castillo of Mexico, circa 196...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Malachite, Brass, Bronze
Vintage Negora Lacquer Circular Storage Bin with Vertical Stripes
Located in Yonkers, NY
A vintage Burmese negora lacquer round storage bin box from the mid-20th century, with vertical stripes. Created in Burma during the 20th century, this large decorative box features a negora lacquered body resting on a circular base. Showcasing red lacquer on the inside, this vintage Burmese box...
Category
Mid-20th Century Burmese Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Ceramic Box by Franco Bucci for Laboratorio Pesaro, Italy, 1970s
Located in Milan, IT
Remarkable ceramic box by Franco Bucci for Laboratorio Pesaro.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Tessellated Stone Octagonal Box by Renoir Designs
Located in San Diego, CA
A very well crafted tessellated stone octagonal box with attached lid by Renoir Designs, circa 1970s. The piece is very heavy and solid and lined...
Category
Mid-20th Century Philippine Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stone
Alvino Bagni Box for Raymor
By Alvino Bagni, Raymor
Located in W Allenhurst, NJ
Beautiful example of mid century Italian pottery. Alvino Bagli for Raymor lidded box in a great period orange with yellow, brown and black accent.
It is a beautiful box and hard to...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pottery
Fajance Lidded Box / Humidor by Nils Thorsson for Royal Copenhagen
Located in San Diego, CA
Wonderful Fajance lidded box / humidor from the Baca line by Nils Thorsson for Royal Copenhagen, circa 1960s. The stunning blue and black glazed stoneware container with geometric ab...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Stoneware
Maitland Smith Seated Monkey Signed Box or Humidor with Removable Lid
Located in Ann Arbor, MI
Maitland Smith seated Monkey Signed Box or Humidor with removable lid Signed with an original Maitland Smith label and factory label.
Category
1980s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Large French Wood Fleur De Lis Painted Domed Shaped Box
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Exquisite French wood box featuring the ever classic fleur-de-lis surrounding the exterior. This 1960's box could be used for storage or jewelry and would certainly make a statement ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Paint
Carrara Marble Small Lidded Canister or Stash Box, Italy, 1960s
Located in San Diego, CA
Carrara marble small lidded canister or stash container. Italy, 1960s.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Carrara Marble
Mid-Century Italian Brass Leopard Fur Jewellery Box 1970
Located in Paris, IDF
Beautiful mid-century box made in Italy in the late 1970s. This brass jewellery or make-up box is covered by leopard fur, with burlwood veneer inside. The mix of brass and leopard fu...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Vintage Modern Studio Craft Carved Wood Artist Signed Puzzle Box in Walnut 1982
Located in Troy, MI
Signed vintage Studio Craft Walnut Puzzle Box
Signed Bob Goldsmith puzzle box titled Rosie's Desire 1982
Carved walnut abstract form with two slide through drawers
Signed to unders...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Walnut
Mid-century West Berlin, Germany Hammered Copper Dish c.1960
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
A mid-century kidney shaped, hammered copper dish. Stamped "Made in West Berlin".
CREATOR Unknown. West Berlin, Germany.
DATE OF MANUFACTURE c.1960s.
MATERIALS AN...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Copper
Rare French Small Gilt Bronze Box by Line Vautrin
By Line Vautrin
Located in Atlanta, GA
A small gilt bronze pill box by French Parisian art jeweler Line Vautrin (1913-1997) circa 1940-50s. The rather rare round box features a relief-cast spider on the lid. The interior ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bronze
Wicker Duck Box
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Wicker duck box from the Shanghai collection with its notorious intricate wicker structure, removable lid, carved beak, and bamboo trim.
Category
20th Century Chinese Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wicker
Ceramic Miniature Chest ca' 1970's
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
An unusual miniature chest of drawers by Virginia Podufaly, ca' 1970's. She was one of the founders of the Potters' Guild in Annapolis, Maryland in 1972.
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Mid-Century Parquetry Decorative Jewelry Box with Side Drawer and Mirror
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This Mid-Century Modern era parquetry wooden jewelry box was made in the United States in approximately 1955 in a cubist style. The box is done in a series of woods with various stai...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood
Box with Lid in Portuguese Sant’Anna Faience
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
Box with lid, in Portuguese Sant’Anna faience. Polychrome decoration with floral motifs, rectangular in shape, with rounded corners and a slightly wavy body. The decoration is hand-p...
Category
Mid-20th Century Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Earthenware
Murano Barovier & Toso Glass Box, Gold, Brass, Hinged.
By Barovier
Located in New York, NY
Murano Barovier & Toso Glass Box, Gold, Brass, Hinged. Finely handcrafted rectangular translucent glass box, decorated with gold bubble inclusions.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Crevillen Paris Silvered and Enameled Blue Ceramic Jewellery Box 1970
Located in Paris, IDF
Beautiful French midcentury silvered decorative box produced by Crevillen Paris in the early 1970s. This jewellery box features a beautiful enameled blue ceramic top depicting a woma...
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Don Shoemaker Desk Top Business Card Holder
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
We offer this rare business card holder made in Cocobolo and granadillo wood, includes Original label of Señal S.A., circa 1970.
Category
1960s Mexican Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Cocobolo
Italian Modernist "Apple" Lidded Trinket Box in Gold and Silver Aluminum
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Petite apple-form box for holding small items in gold aluminum with silver banding and orb handle (ca. 1960s, Italy).
Luxurious decorative item in very good, newly polished condition...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Aluminum
Mid-century Italian Ceramic Box by Raymor c.1960
By Raymor
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT
A mid-century ceramic glazed jewelry or trinket box. Marked "Italy" underneath.
CREATOR Attributed to Raymor, Italy.
DATE OF MANUFACTURE 1960.
MATERIALS AND TECHN...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
1940s Enamel and Wooden Box by Elizabeth Bensley
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This is a nice example of artist, Elizabeth Bensley's enamel work from the late 1940s displayed beautifully on a wooden box. Note that the box top does not stay open at an angle as t...
Category
1940s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Enamel
Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte Satinwood Glass Box, 1940
Located in Paris, IDF
Rare Italian Pietro Chiesa for Fontana Arte decorative box made in Italy in the 1940s. Carved from satinwood, with a thick polished aquamarine glas...
Category
1940s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Antique Wooden Cash Register
Located in Praha, CZ
- made in Oak
- Minor signs of use due to age and use
- all seems in functional order
- Missing one key from down part drawer but the drawer is not locked and can be opened
Category
Early 1900s Central American Antique Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Wood, Oak
Tommi Parzinger Brass Box Mid-Century Modern
Located in North Miami, FL
This Mid-Century Modern Tommi Parzinger for Dorlyn Silversmiths is hallmarked on the back. This chic brass box back in the times of the 1950s was s silent butler tray to pick up the ...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Fontana Arte Mod. 2004 Box
By Fontana Arte
Located in Milan, IT
Fontana Arte Mod. 2004 box.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Lidded Glass & Leather Box by Jacques Adnet, France 1950's
Located in New York, NY
Leather-lidded cast glass box with a bronze star accent.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Vintage Carved Stone Agate Box and Bowl in Amber Color, Set
Located in Miami, FL
Decorative vintage set of carved stone agate box and bowl in amber color.
Please not the stunning pattern of the stone and the carvings around the lidded bowl.
Superb craftsmanship f...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Agate
Aldo Londi Bitossi Ochre Glazed Box, Vase Set
By Aldo Londi, Bitossi
Located in New York, NY
Aldo Londi for Bitossi hand decorated vase and box. An ochre ground provides the backdrop for the colorful stylized floral motif. Signed/Labeled Sold as a set.
Vase measures 8 x 4...
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Maitland Smith American Mid-Century Semi-Circle Bone Box
Located in Queens, NY
American Mid-Century semi-circle shape bone box with tan and brown pattern (MAITLAND SMITH)
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Bone
Midcentury Rectangular Decorative Box in Leather with Coins by LAR, Italy 1960s
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury beautiful rectangular decorative box in leather with coins by LAR.
Made in Italy in the 1960s.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Metal
Maitland Smith Inlaid Verde Marble Box W/ Bronze Lizard Handle
Located in Atlanta, GA
Tesselated Inlaid Verde Marble box with Bronze Salamander Handle in patinated Verdigris Finish.
Maitland-Smith is known for its artisan-crafted, eclectic furniture and decorative acc...
Category
Mid-20th Century Philippine Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Tommaso Barbini 1980s 3 Piece Smoking Set
By Barbini
Located in Montclair, NY
Tommaso Barbi group of 3 1980s ceramic smoking objects of 1 box and 2 ashtrays.
All signed in white glaze B. Ceramiche.
Box. 6.88 W 4.25 D 2.75 H
Round 6.25 D 1.75 H...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Pair of Midcentury End Table/ Cube Boxes with Storage Interiors
Located in Westport, CT
Pair of midcentury cube end tables with storage compartment mahogany wood lids are fitted to lift and store.
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Mahogany
Vintage Set of 5 1970's Tortoise Plexiglass & Brass Desk Accessories
Located in Vis, NL
dint vintage set of 5 mid century faux tortoise plexiglass and brass desk accessories consisting in :
2 different sized trays.
1 small trash bin
1...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Studio Craft Lidded Plywood Box
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Free form rectangular studio craft wood plywood box c.2001. This piece features a layered plywood exterior and cork interior. A sweet message is scribbled on the interior of the lid ...
Category
Early 2000s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Cork, Plywood
American Midcentury Modern Sterling Silver Box
By Boardman Silversmiths 1
Located in New York, NY
Midcentury Modern sterling silver box. Made by JC Boardman & Co. in Connecticut. Rectangular with straight sides and curved corners. Cover hinged with gently curved top and rectangul...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Sterling Silver
Milk Glass Trinket or Jewelry Box with Diamond Shape Decoration and Lid
Located in Oklahoma City, OK
A beautiful cut milk glass trinket box, or jewelry box. This lovely piece is square in shape, with diamond shape decoration on both the lid and sides.
Dimensions:
4.25" wide
4....
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Glass, Milk Glass
Italian Mid Century Modern Murano Sommerso Art Glass Jewelry Trinket Casket
Located in Englewood, NJ
An Italian Mid Century Modern Murano clear art glass "Sommerso" jewelry square casket trinket box fitted with gold plated brass fittings. The brass is signed. "G.S.E. ottone galvan...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass
Mid-century Modern decorative boxes for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Mid-Century Modern decorative boxes for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage decorative boxes created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include decorative objects, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, more furniture and collectibles and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, wood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Mid-Century Modern decorative boxes made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and France pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original decorative boxes, popular names associated with this style include Bitossi, Line Vautrin, Piero Fornasetti, and Gabriella Crespi. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for decorative boxes differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $22 and tops out at $34,396 while the average work can sell for $850.