Mid-Century Modern Vases
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
Very Large Colorful French Ceramic Vase, 1960s
Located in Paris, IDF
This berry-colored ceramic vase feels very much of the 1960s. The deep, raspberry red and candy blue colors are strewn around the vase like tie-dye the red blooms across the widest p...
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
1970s Modernist Hand Painted Ceramic Sicilian Vase by Garofalo
Located in Aci Castello, IT
An abstract bird brown ceramic vase hand-crafted and painted by small producer Garofalo in Santo Stefano di Camastra, small town in Sicily famous for hand-crafted ceramics. The Vase ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Sicilian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Terracotta
Barovier Toso Efeso Vase Steel Blue Gray Teardrop Shape Murano Glass Vase Italia
Located in Palm Beach, FL
A rare and exquisite Murano glass "Efeso" vase by Ercole Barovier for Barovier & Toso, Italy, circa 1960s. This stunning teardrop-shaped vase showcases a unique blend of gray and ste...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Murano Glass, Blown Glass
Venini vase Colletti series 70’s
Located in bari, IT
Colletti series vase in greenish blown glass with two-tone incalmo band decoration designer Alessandro Diaz de Santillana. Venini engraved signature.
After graduating in architecture...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Mid Century Ceramic Ikebana Vase Planter Centerpiece, Japan 1960
Located in San Diego, CA
Ceramic modernist rectangular centerpiece Ikebana vase or planter. Great glaze with a textured design on the front. Retains the original paper label in Japanese. Japan, 1960
Category
1960s Japanese Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Rude Osolnik Signed Mid-Century Modern Spalted Wood Turned Vessel Bud Weed Vase
By Rude Osolnik
Located in Studio City, CA
A beautifully executed, handmade, wood-turned weed vase by master woodturner Rude Osolnik who is widely regarded, along with Bob Stocksdale, as one of the finest woodturners in American woodturning history. In 1992, he was presented by then-Kentucky Governor Brereton Jones, with the Milner Award, the Governor's Award for Lifetime Achievement.
The vase is made from spalted wood (hard to make out the exact wood on the base) and features highlighted wood grain and shades of dark and light areas. It is signed "Osolnik Originals" and "Spalted ...." by the Osolnik on the base.
A gorgeous and engaging gem of a piece that clearly makes an impact. Would be a great addition to any Midcentury Modern or wood-turned collection or make for an eye-catching stand-alone work in about any setting, midcentury or otherwise.
Osolnik's work can be found in such permanent collections as:
The Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian
The Boston Museum of Fine Arts
Atlanta's High Museum
The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago
The Yale Museum
The Speed Museum
The Kentucky History Museum
The Mayo Clinic...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Wood
Large Blenko Red Blown Art Glass Vase Vessel Jug with Stopper
By Blenko Glass
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Large Blenko red blown Art Glass vase vessel jug with stopper. Circa 1960s.
Measurements: 23.5" height x 9" diameter.
Category
1960s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass
Tobia Scarpa Vase "Occhi" for Venini, circa 1960
By Venini
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Tobia Scarpa Vase "Occhi" for Venini, circa 1960
A white 'occhi' murrine vase designed by Tobia Scarpa in 1960, manufactured by Venini, Venice ca. 1960. Acid stamped signature 'veni...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Patricia Urquiola Sestiere Vase For Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Patricia Urquiola Sestiere Vase For Cassina
A collection of contemporary vases that preserves and interprets the quintessential Venetian legacy. Sestiere perpetuates traditional gl...
Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass
Vintage German Vibrant Red Glass Tree Bark Vase by Ingrid Glas, circa 1970s
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
Wonderful Mid-Century Modern German vase by Ingrid Glas, circa 1970. This beautiful bright red vase brings a touch of fun and fantasy to any room with it's whimsical textured 'tree b...
Category
1970s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass, Blown Glass
Midcentury Modern Fat Lava Ceramic Vase by Fridegart Glatzle, Karlsruhe, 1960s
Located in Grythyttan, SE
This is a rare ceramic vase produced by the Staatliche Majolika Manufaktur Karlsruhe, also known as Karlsruher Majolika. The vase is designed by Fridegart Glatzle a prominent post-war designer. The vase features a unique square design with four rounded corners, resting in a foot. It is adorned with a pale yellow thick glaze in an angular pattern over a matte brown glaze, resembling a giraffe pattern, and exhibits characteristic bubbles typical of fat lava glaze.
Friedegart Glatzle...
Category
1960s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Wonderful Large Italian Art Glass Bullicante Murano Venetian Bubbles Green Vase
Located in Roslyn, NY
A Wonderful Large Italian Art Glass Bullicante Style Murano / Venetian Bubbles Green Blown Glass Vase
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass
Abstract Mid Century Hebron Glass Vintage Hand Blown Vase
Located in Toronto, CA
This beautiful vase, crafted in the style of Hebron glass, is a unique find. Hand-blown with exceptional skill, it features vibrant colors and intricate patterns typical of Hebron gl...
Category
Late 20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Blown Glass
Danish Mid-Century Modern Stoneware by Søholm 1960s, Set of 6
Located in Asaa, DK
Danish Mid-Century Modern Stoneware by Søholm, Denmark 1960s. Set of 6.
Six pieces of gorgeous Danish vintage ceramic from Soholm.
This set consists of:
- Vase no. 3346.
- Vas...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Murano, Italy, Vase in Green Mouth-Blown Art Glass with Bubbles
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Murano, Italy. Vase in green mouth-blown art glass with bubbles and gold decoration, 1960s.
In very good condition
Measures: 16 x 10 cm.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Mandruzzato Murano Sommerso Red, Blue, Yellow & Clear Faceted Glass Vase, 1960s
Located in Barcelona, ES
Beautiful faceted Sommerso triple cased rubi red, yellow and blue Murano glass vase attributed to Mandruzzato. Murano, Italy, 1960s.
The vibrant colors make this piece highly decora...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Cut Glass, Murano Glass, Sommerso
Colored Stripes Vintage Studio Pottery Vase
Located in West Palm Beach, US
Hand made studio pottery vase with colorful blue, yellow, white black, brown and orange stripes. Reminiscent of Fantoni pottery, this piece is a real eye catcher. The rim shows a sli...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Pottery
Monumental Gunnar Nylund Floor Vase AKT Stoneware Rörstrand Sweden 1950s
Located in Basel, BS
Monumental floor vase by Swedish master ceramist Gunnar Nylund.
One of Nylund‘s ‚alphabet vases‘, of which each has a three letter code describing it‘s shape, this one being the mo...
Category
1950s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Stoneware
Gustav Spörri for Ziegler Schaffhausen Studio Pottery Vase, 1959
Located in Bad Säckingen, DE
A striking studio pottery vase by Swiss ceramicist Gustav Spörri for Ziegler Schaffhausen, dated 1959. This hand-thrown ceramic vase features a unique monochrome sgraffito decoration...
Category
1950s Swiss Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery
Tall Vase Mid-Century Modern Glazed Earthenware Frog & Crab Nautical Motif, 1970
Located in Miami, FL
Heavy beautiful, glazed ceramic vase in hues of brown, blue and bronze with nautical Frog & Crab motif.
Beautifully crafted and flowing color brilliance.
Numbered L24.
A-802-335
Category
Late 20th Century Polish Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Earthenware
1960s Giovanni DeSimone Italian Hand Painted Ceramic Pottery Vase ITALY
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1960s Art pottery from Italy DeSimone hand painted ceramic pottery vase.
Giovanni De Simone Italian colorful vase
5.63 tall x 3.75 diameter
Preowned ...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Paint
Very Large San Marino Bottle Vase Smalto Roccia Glaze Italy 1950s
Located in Melbourne, AU
An unusually large example of San Marino tourist pottery with 'Smalto Roccia' or 'Lava' glaze. The brightly colored blue panel illustrates a Mediterran...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Clay
1950s Archimede Seguso Murano Glass Bowl Pink & Green with Gold Leaf/Polveri
Located in Warrenton, OR
Pink & Green 1950s Archimede Seguso Murano Glass Bowl with Gold Leaf/Polveri
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This rare, mid-century modern biomorphic bow...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Gold Leaf
Vintage Blenko Glass Amethyst Paper Bag Vase by Don Shepherd
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
This vintage Blenko glass "paper bag" vase was designed by Don Shepherd. He was the company's designer from 1974 to 1988. The vase is pictured in Blenko's 1988 catalog...
Category
1980s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass
1950s Ercole Barovier Zebrati Glass Murano Midcentury Design Italy Bowl Vase
Located in Brescia, IT
"Zebrati" Murano glass
Perfect condiction
Measures: H 14 x 30 cm.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Large 20cm Ceramic Brutalist Vase FAT LAVA Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany, 1970s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
ceramic pottery vase.
Origin:
Germany.
Producer:
Carstens Tönnieshof, Germany.
Decade:
1970s.
This original vintage pottery object was designed and produced by C...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Decorative Object Vase Yellow Glass Handkerchief IVV Mid-Century Italy 70/80s
By IVV Handmade
Located in Palermo, IT
Decorative Object Vase Yellow Murano Glass Handkerchief Mid-century Modern Italy 80s. The glass changes from a light yellow to a dark and full yellow at the rim of the vase. It was h...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass
Fratelli Toso Murano Ribbons Italian Art Glass Sculptural Fazzoletto Flower Vase
By Fratelli Toso, Venini
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful, and extra large, vintage Murano hand blown black / brown and light green ribbons Italian art glass sculptural handkerchief / fazzoletto vase. Documented to the Fratelli To...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Glass
Murano Opalescent Chalcedony Millefiori Flower Murrines Italian Art Glass Vase
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful and large, vintage Murano hand blown opalescent orange, and murrines Italian art glass flower vase. The vase is covered with layers of silver leaf, that triggers a chemical...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Murrine, Opaline Glass, Glass
1970s Mid-Century Modern Carlo Moretti Orange and Blue Opaline Vase
Located in Aci Castello, IT
An Italiane vase manufactured by Opaline Florence. Totally hand-crafted, opaline it's in perfect conditions. The orange and blue colors are typical of the period. The Vase is a strik...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Opaline Glass
White Italian Midcentury Ceramic Vase by Roberto Rigon for Bertoncello
Located in Vienna, AT
This fantastic large Italian white glazed ceramic vase was designed by Roberto Rigon for Bertoncello art ceramics ca around 1970.
and represents an Iconic Italian collection ceramic...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Karlsruhe Fat Lava Vase Germany 1960s
Located in Debrecen, HU
This stunning, original vintage vase was crafted by the renowned German manufacturer Karlsruhe Majolika Keramik in the 1960s. Made using the iconic fat lava technique, it stands as a...
Category
1660s German Antique Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Abstract Murano Glass Vase by Fratelli Toso in Yellow and Green, c. 1980
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Vintage handblown art glass vase with unique organic form attributed to Fratelli Toso, Italy. The special glassblowing technique showcases the exquisite craftsmanship of this Murano ...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass, Art Glass
Anzolo Fuga Vase with Vertical Rods 1955-56
By A.VE.M, Anzolo Fuga
Located in New York, NY
Hand-blown vase with vertical rods by Anzolo Fuga for AVEM (Arte Vetraria Muranese), Murano Italy, 1955-6. The colorful rods interspersed among the white rods creates a very strikin...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Elegant Mid-Century Modern Glass Vase by Arthur Percy for Gullaskruf, Sweden
Located in Knivsta, SE
Very Elegant Mid-Century Modern Glass Vase by Arthur Percy (Sweden 1886-1976) for Gullaskruf Glasbruk, Småland, Sweden.
Beautiful color.
Wear consistent with age and use
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass
Murano Sommerso Yellow Glass Scalloped Centerpiece Vase
Located in Barcelona, ES
Elegant hand blown Sommerso and lattimo yellow Murano glass vase / centerpiece, Italy, 1950s.
Triple cased glass (yellow, over white lattimo glass over yellow glass). It has an scall...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass, Sommerso, Opaline Glass
Vintage ceramic vase, Italy 1970s
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
Vintage ceramic vase made in Italy in the 1974.
Mid-century vase has an original signature.
The ceramic vase is in very good vintage condition, with no damage.
Dimensions:
Width: 1...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Clarence E Blackburn Mid-Century Floral Molded Art Pottery Vase
Located in Bishop's Stortford, Hertfordshire
A stunning and rare British mid-century art pottery floral molded vase by renowned artist Clarence E Blackburn (British, 1914-1984) dated 1951.
Clarence E Blackburn was a painter, ...
Category
Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
West German Midcentury Blue Lava Drip Glaze Vase by Scheurich, circa 1965
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
Gorgeous vintage Mid-Century vase by West German Pottery manufacturer Scheurich Keramik (Ceramic), circa 1965. Add a splash of color/colour to your home decor with this beautiful blu...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Pottery, Clay
20th Century Lino Sabattini Vase Model Persepoli in Silvered Metal 1964
Located in Turin, Turin
Vase model "Persepoli" by Lino Sabattini in Silvered Metal, produced in '70s.
Very good condition, as never used, fully original.
Presence of the signature as shown in photo.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Metal
Umberto Zannoni Grey Ceramic Vase with Squiggles, Signed
Located in Milano, IT
Splendid ceramic vase signed Umberto Zannoni Faenza of fine Italian manufacture Zirardini in the 1950s. Signed, Original Label.
The marvellous vase has a round base from which the b...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Frantisek Vizner, Sklo Union Czech Art Glass, the Maze', a Good Art Glass Vase
Located in London, GB
Frantisek Vizner, Sklo Union Czech art glass.
The Maze'. A good Mid-Century Modern art glass vase.
Category
1960s Czech Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass
Vintage Murano Twin Handled Vase, Italian, Art Glass, Decorative, Mid Century
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage Murano twin handled vase. An Italian, art glass decorative baluster, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1960.
Striking colour with a delightful proportion and a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Mid-Century Italian Handmade Sommerso Murano Glass Vase
Located in Vilnius, LT
Vintage Italian handmade Sommerso vase handmade of multi-colour layers Murano glass is asymmetric form.
Signed/engraved on the base.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Gustavsberg ceramic collection, Sweden, 1950
Located in Bronx, NY
Collection of ceramics By Wilhelm Kåge for Gustavsberg Sweden quartz colored with silver inlays various sizes and shapes.
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Michael Harvey Pop Art Ceramic Sculpture Ribbed Tank Top Vase, 1970s
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Iconic ribbed tank top T-shirt vase designed by Michael Harvey (British/Canadian, 1931-2013) in the 1970s. This unique pop art sculpture, with incredible attention to detail, is not ...
Category
1970s Canadian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Clay
Bitossi Aldo Londi ¨Fascie Colorate¨ Glaze, Set of Vase and Pitcher, Italy 1960s
By Bitossi, Aldo Londi
Located in Valencia, VC
Vintage Italian Bitossi by Aldo Londi Mid-Century set of ceramic vase and pitcher. Featuring a gorgeous ¨Fascie Colorate¨ glazing décor. The vase/bottle in a deep olive green backgro...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic, Earthenware
Carlo Scarpa Tessuto Vase Venini Murano Yellow Black Stripes Venetian Art Glass
By Carlo Scarpa, Venini
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Carlo Scarpa Tessuto vase or bottle designed circa 1940 and executed by Venini in 1985. Crafted out of the finest hand blown murano glass in the Tessuto technique with fused glass ca...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass, Art Glass, Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Bruno Gambone Italian Stoneware Vase 1970s
Located in Reggio Emilia, IT
Stoneware stoneware vase designed and produced by Italian artist Bruno Gambone, production Italy 1970s
Signed Gambone Italy under the vase.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Seguso Vetri d'Arte Murano Red Gold Italian Art Glass Ribbed Flower Bud Vase
Located in Kissimmee, FL
Beautiful vintage Murano hand blown ruby red and gold flecks Italian art glass ribbed flower bud vase. The piece is documented to the Seguso Vetri d'Arte company. The vase is publish...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Gold Leaf
Vintage Artisan Prem Collection Ceramic Vase Pre Drilled To be Made into a Lamp
Located in Yonkers, NY
A vintage artisan Prem Collection large ceramic vase from the mid 20th century with cream colored glaze, pre-drilled to be made into a table lamp. Created in Chiang Mai, northern Tha...
Category
Mid-20th Century Thai Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Antonio da Ros for Cenedese Murano Glass Set of Vibrantly Colored Glass Bowls
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
One of four sets or ensemble of five 'Opalino' Murano glass bowls designed by Antonio da Ros (1936-2012) for Cenedese, circa 1970-1990. Wonderful translucent colors of vibrant blues, aubergine and pink. Simplistic yet elegant forms - almost futuristic. Very fun to dine with the vibrant Murano glassware...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
1970 Neverrino Gae Aulenti Italian Design Murrine Murano Glass Vase
By Vistosi, Gae Aulenti
Located in Brescia, IT
"Neverrino" Vase
Gae Aulenti
Vistosi
Rare Series designed Gae Aulenti
Blown Glass with Blue Murrina
Perfect Condiction
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Pink & Gold Leaf Aventurine Mezza Filigrana Murano Glass Vase, Italy, 1950s
Located in Barcelona, ES
Pink, clear and gold leaf striped Murano glass vase, Aventurine and Mezza Filigrana technique. Most likely by Dino Martens for Aureliano Toso, Italy, 1950s.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Blown Glass
Set 2 Blenko Style Mid-Century Modern Hand Made Blown Art Glass Vessel, Vase
By Blenko Glass
Located in Miami, FL
Set of 2 translucent baby blue Mid-Century Modern handmade art glass vessel, vase, decanter in the Style of Blenko.
Round Vessels blown in clear and light blue Glass.
The Smaller Vas...
Category
1980s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Murano vase, art glass, Sommerso, 1960
Located in Nice, FR
This vase is made using the sommerso technique, typical of Murano, where several layers of colored glass are superimposed. This method was popularized by master glassmakers such as S...
Category
1960s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
20th Century Italian Murano Glass Vase
Located in Antwerp, BE
An Italian Murano glass vase manufactured in the 1960s.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass, Glass
Ercole Barovier, Barovier & Toso Efeso Vase ca. 1960s
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Ercole Barovier - Barovier & Toso Efeso vase ca. 1960s
A great blue vase from the 'efeso' series designed by Ercole Barovier in 1964 for Barovier & Toso, M...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass, Murano Glass
"Germoglio" Lino Sabattini Italian Design 1970s Silver Vase
Located in Brescia, IT
"Germoglio" Vases
design Lino Sabattini
1979
Silver metal
Excellent condiction.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Metal
Vintage textured murano glass vase Tronchi, Italy 1970s
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
Beautiful vintage geometric murano vase made in Italy in the 1970s.
It is very well-preserved, It represents the patina expected from a glas...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Vintage Glass Metal Vase, Yugoslavia 1970s
Located in Miklavž Pri Taboru, SI
The fruit vase was made in a single copy in Yugoslavia in the 70s of the last century by an unknown master. In excellent condition, the metal structure is intact. Glass is transparen...
Category
Mid-20th Century Slovenian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Metal
Exceptional Blown Glass Vase - Early XXth Century - Spanish Craftsmanship
Located in Barcelona, ES
Elevate your decor with the exceptional beauty of this vintage blown glass vase from the early 20th century. Created by an unknown Spanish manufacturer circa 1940, this vase remains ...
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Early 20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Blown Glass
Mosaici blown glass vase by Rodolfo Dordoni
Located in Uccle, BE
Mosaici blown glass vase by Rodolfo Dordoni, Venini Murano.
“Mosaici” vase in transparent blown glass with a quadrangular shape. Composed of an arrangement of green, blue, and white ...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Blown Glass
Bitossi Aldo Londi Rimini Blu Ceramic Vase, Italy, 1960s
By Bitossi, Aldo Londi
Located in Barcelona, ES
Rare design by Aldo Londi for Bitossi. Rimini Blue ceramic footed vase with geometric motifs, Italy, 1960s
This stunning glazed ceramic vase has a pattern with circles in dark blue with rhombus inside in shades of green / turquoise color accented by decorative flowers.
Excellent vintage condition.
This piece is perfect as a gift idea and it could placed alone or with other 'Rimini Blu'Bitossi pieces creating a set. Display it in a cabinet or on a console table, with flowers or just as a cool decorative vase.
Measures: 22 cm height x 18 cm diameter (8,66 in height X 7,08 in diameter )
More Bitossi Aldo Londi pieces are avaliable at our 1stdibs marketplace.
About Bitossi (Manufacturer)
Like a Fellini movie, the ceramics of this famed Italian company embody a creative spectrum that ranges from the playful and earthy to the high-minded and provocative. Based in Florence, Bitossi Ceramiche draws on craft traditions that date back to the 1500s. These find expression in the artisanal vases and animal figures by the firm’s longtime art director Aldo Londi, as well as the colorful, totemic vessels designed by the high priest of postmodernism, Ettore Sottsass.
The company was incorporated by Guido Bitossi in 1921, though the family began making art pottery in the mid-19th century. In the 1930s, Londi came aboard, bringing with him a mindset that respected time-honored craft, yet looked also to the future. On the one hand, Londi’s perspective fostered the making of Bitossi’s popular whimsical animal figures, hand-shaped and -carved and finished in a rich azure glaze known as “Rimini Blue.”
But with his other hand, Londi reached out to thoughtful, experimental designers such as Sottsass. Starting in the 1950s, some 20 years before he founded the Memphis Postmodern design...
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Early 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
20th Century White/ Clear Murano Glass Long Neck Vase, Italy ca. 1960
Located in Lichtenberg, AT
Artfully designed, slim Murano glass vase from the famous glass art workshops. Made in Italy in the mid century period around 1960 this elegantly glass vase impresses with its beautiful flashed glass technique in a timeless white tone. The asymmetrical shaped clear glass base confers it a secure stand. A delicate long neck Murano glass...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Murano Glass
Scandinavian Mid-century design art sommerso glass vase by Gunnar Nylund
Located in Skarpnäck, SE
A fantastic and rather large handblown vintage art sommerso glass vase, design and signed by the talented Gunnar Nylund and Asta Strömberg from the prestigious Strömbergshyttan Sweden. This vase has a fantastic color, a deep smokey grey or nearly black color, covered with clear crystal. The design is simple yet very much of 60s and inspiration from the space age, it is sleek, elegant and sophisticated, especially with the fantastic contrasting color.
-It is 27cm (10.62") high and 8.5cm wide (3.34") and 5cm deep (1.96") at the base, in a teardrop shape and in a good condition, yet some minor abrasion underneath, and micro soot flakes yet overall a fantastic vase. The price includes free shipping.
Strömberghyttan; a company which early on grasped the importance of good design when it comes to art and design glass, rendering them a leading position in mid-century modern Scandinavian design.
Interior design and decoration which stood out with a distinct quality, very much due to the famous designers Gerda and Asta Strömberg. Many items with iconic design which Strömbergshyttan became famed for was often creations made by Asta Strömberg, who designed most of the glass, focusing on modern art glass and other interior design objects such as crystal vases. The company also hired the multi-talented award winning and iconic artist and designer Gunnar Nylund as well as Rune Strand...
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1960s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Glass
Danish Modern Frank Studio Stoneware Vase, 1960s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Midcentury modern ceramic vase handmade by Frank Rasmussen in his studio Frank Keramik Denmark in the 1960s. Blueish gray glaze with golden caramel specks over and around the raised ...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic, Clay, Pottery, Stoneware
1960s Tall Alvino Bagni Italian Mid Century Modern Ceramic Vase for Bitossi
By Bitossi, Aldo Londi
Located in Miami, FL
A 1960s import from Italy, this tall Bitossi Vase was designed by Alvino Bagni and has a shouldered form with a fine craquelure creamy glaze on the bottom topped with a textural impressed conical head and mouth in matte glaze in green and mustard shades.
Probably imported by Raymor, this mid-century mod vase...
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1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Clay
Daum France Crystal Bud Vase, Basket or Vide Poche
By Daum
Located in Atlanta, GA
Daum Nancy France designed and crafted this lovely bud basket Crystal vase circa 1970. This typical Daum abstract design can also be used as a vide-poche or catchall. The etched sign...
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1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Crystal
François Gueneau large 20th century unique handmade ceramic vase or sculpture
Located in Neuilly-en- sancerre, FR
François Gueneau
Large 20th century unique handmade ceramic vase
Signed at the base
Original perfect condition
Height 22 cm
Large 25 cm
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Tim Keenan Ceramic Vase
By Tim Keenan
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Tim Keenan Ceramic vase, 2022.
Category
21st Century and Contemporary American Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Venini Vase Fazzoletto in Green, Fulvio Bianconi 1950s
Located in Berghuelen, DE
Venini Vase Fazzoletto in Green, Fulvio Bianconi 1950s
A Fazzoletto vase in transparent green glass. Manufactured in the 1950s by Venini, Venic...
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Art Glass
Gunnar Nylund pottery vases "Granola" by , Rörstrand, Sweden
Located in Skarpnäck, SE
A pair of extraordinary handmade vintage art ceramic vases known as "Granola" design by the very talented Gunnar Nylund for Rörstrand. What makes these vases so very special is that ...
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1960s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Vases
Materials
Ceramic
Mid-century Modern vases for sale on 1stDibs.
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