Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
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
Illuminated Glass World Globe on Mahogany Stand by Edward Wormley for Dunbar
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mahogany sculptural globe stand supported by brass sabots originally designed by Edward Wormley for Dunbar in 1953. The globe itself is a 16" Rand McNally Terrestrial globe...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Vintage Boho Brass Egret Bookends - Set of 2
Located in west palm beach, FL
Elevate your home library or display shelves with this exquisite pair of Vintage Boho Brass Egret Bookends. These captivating designer bookends showcase masterful craftsmanship, feat...
Category
Late 20th Century Indian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Marble, Brass
Vintage Room Divider With Floral Motif.
Located in Seattle, WA
Three Pane Room Divider , Painted Green on one Side with a Floral Motif on the Other. Edges are Yellow , the Top of the Middle Pane is White, Probably From Exposure to the Elements O...
Category
1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Vintage MCM Free Standing Room Divider Wall Unit Cabinet with 3-Drawers
Located in Seattle, WA
A remarkable Mid Century Modern walnut wood, upright, vertical, single bay freestanding unit. Wall unit features gorgeous walnut wood tones and grain, upper shelf cabinet compartment...
Category
1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Walnut
20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Birchwood Room Divider - Vintage Screen
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A sculptural, vintage Mid-Century modern Danish room divider made of hand crafted polished Birchwood, in good condition. The large Scandinavian screen has two adjustable, flexible wa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Pair Chrome Bill Curry Handmade Oversize Jacks - Jax Bookends Doorstops 1960s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Designed by Bill Curry, these oversize jacks were made by Design Line in California. Many variants of these exist, but all were made the same way. First, the general shape is cast, a...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Chrome, Iron
Exquisite Mid Century Imperial Terrestrial Standing Floor Globe Wood Library
By Cram's
Located in Peoria, AZ
Exquisite!
Cram's Imperial Terrestrial
Standing Floor Globe
Approximately 16" wide by 39" Tall
This is one of the finest terrestrial floor globes of the mid century period. Great...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Modernist Four Panel Mirror Screen w/ Antique Gilt Wood Detailing
Located in New York, NY
This sleek and beautifully formed Mid-Century Modernist Four Panel Mirror Screen W/Antique Gilt Wood Detailing originates from the United States, Circa 1970. Featuring four panels in total with three sections of glass in each panel. The seams between the panels of mirror glass are subtle and give a good sense of scale throughout each panel. The framework is original gilt wood, slender and minimal with a lustrous red base color after which the gilt detailing is applied. The reverse of each panel is lined with a tagboard backing featuring a lovely geometric pattern in muted colors with silver pointillist detailing at each corner of the grid. Antiqued brass hinges connect the panels to one another and are of remarkable quality. A beautiful Screen...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Mirror, Giltwood
Monumental Mahogany Sacre Coeur Cathedral Bird Cage on Stand, 20th Century
Located in Linkebeek, BE
This is a truly spectacular and monumental vintage mahogany birdcage on stand based on a grand design after the splendid Sacre Coeur church in Montmartre, Paris, dating from the mid-...
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20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Wooden Art Deco Bookends Spherical Round
Located in Sacile, PN
Art Deco bookends in wood.
Category
1930s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
20th Century Wood and Hand Painted Fabric Folding Room Divider
Located in Barcelona, ES
20th Century Spanish folding hand painted room divider. By unknown manufacturer from Spain. In good original condition, with minor wear consistent with age and use, preserving ...
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20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Contemporary Room Divider in Natural Cane Webbing
By Nada Debs
Located in NEW YORK, NY
This midcentury style partition is defined by its striking angles and play on texture.
The handmade room divider filters light while maintaining privacy and a separation of spaces.
M...
Category
Early 2000s Asian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Straw, Cane, Ash
2 carved owl motive Lime wood bookends vienna around 1960s
Located in Wien, AT
2 carved owl motive Lime wood bookends vienna around 1960s
Original condition
The books are not for sale they are only for the photoshooting.
Category
1960s Austrian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Pair Of Vintage Greyhound Figures, Italian, Dog Statue, Bookends, Mid Century
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a pair of vintage Greyhound figures. An Italian, ceramic seated dog statue or decorative bookends, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1950.
Loveable figures with appealin...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Ceramic
Vintage Luggage Genuine Leather in Alligator Look, Dionite, Canada, 1950s
Located in Bochum, NRW
A Dionite vintage leather luggage, alligator look, extremely decorative.
Light body covered with alligator patterned cow leather. Under the handle a brass plate with company logo.
Al...
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Leather
Mirror screen with palm tree motif by VIVAI DEL SUD
Located in SAINT-OUEN-SUR-SEINE, FR
Three-panel mirror screen with palm tree motif.
Rattan structure and mirror on both sides.
Origin: Italy, 1970s
Edition: Vivai del Sud
Dimensions : Length 200 cm, Height 183 cm, Wi...
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1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Rattan, Mirror
Eames for Herman Miller FSW-6 Folding Screen Room Divider, 1950s
Located in New York, NY
An early molded plywood screen divider in calico ash, designed by Charles & Ray Eames, manufactured by Herman Miller. The screen's ingenious design allows it to be formed into a vari...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Plywood
Early Eames Screen Room Divider FSW-6 Custom Order in Rosewood
Located in Seattle, WA
An extremely rare first generation Eames FSW-6 privacy screen, custom ordered in Rosewood Veneer at 61 inch height, with cotton fabric connector in good condition, no tears, only fraying at the end. Rosewood was generally not an option for the privacy screen throughout the first production, and can only be custom ordered.
We have checked with the Herman Miller Archive and the Eames foundation to ensure this is the first generation Eames screen...
Category
1950s North American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Plywood, Rosewood
Pair of Midcentury Marble and Wooden Horse Head Bookends
Located in Antwerp, BE
Stylish pair of midcentury wooden horse head bookends, circa 1970s. The bookends are heavy and well crafted, they are honey cream in color on a black marble base. Great addition to a...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Marble
Vintage Brass Bookends Elephants, 1970s
Located in Barntrup, DE
Vintage brass bookends from circa the 1970s.
Beautiful bookends, each with an elephant sculpture, mounted on brass bases. France, circa the 1970s.
Dimensions: height: 15 cm / 5.9 in;...
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Glass Voyeur Screen / Room Divider by Vittorio Livi for Fiam - 1990s
By FIAM, Vittorio Livi
Located in Linkebeek, BE
Glass Voyeur Screen / Room Divider by Vittorio Livi for Fiam - 1990s
Screen Vittorio Livi for Fiam
Measures: open 153cm-25cm H:167cm
Materials:glass - wood
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Glass, Wood
Vintage Genuine Top Grade Cowhide Brown Leather Suitcase Luggage
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Genuine top grade cowhide brown leather 24" Suitcase Luggage. Item features H.P.F. monogram, interior with compartments and sections, very nice...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Leather
Folding Screen with Tibor Reich Etruscan Horse Fabric
Located in Savannah, GA
A four panel antique mahogany folding screen with a special Tibor Reich etruscan horse jacquard fabric from the 1960s. Both front and back are upholstered and pictured.
101 inches ...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Jacquard, Mahogany
C.S. Hammond & Co. 1950s Inflatable Globe on Tripod Stand
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Hammond's International Globe (circa 1955) composed of an inflatable globe on painted metal tripod base. Images and font are large in scale and very l...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
4 Panels Carved Teak Fine Details Room Divider Screen Heavy Brass Hinges Mint!
Located in Rockaway, NJ
4 Panels carved teak fine details room divider screen heavy brass hinges mint.
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Teak
Pair of Chrome Elephant Bookends by Walter von Nessen for Chase USA
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of chrome bookends by Walter von Nessen for Chase, c.1930s, USA. The pair of bookends feature two chrome plated brass elephants with curved tubular bodies and geometric shaped h...
Category
1930s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Small 4-Step Wooden Library Ladder - Italy - 1960s
Located in Milano, IT
Small, unobtrusive four-step library ladder mounted in a spiral pattern on a central turned wooden board.
Italian production, circa 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Italian Architectural Library Ladder Attributed to Franco Albini, 1950s
Located in Milan, IT
Italian Architectural library ladder
Attributed to Franco Albini, 1950s.
Each step has two black non-slip plastic strips.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Rare Pair Vintage 50s Yemiel Hadany Mid Century Modern Brutalist Bronze Bookends
By Yaacov Agam
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Rare Pair of 1950s Yemiel Hadany Mid Century Modern, Brutalist, Bronze, Abstract, Raised Relief Bookends of Ancient Hebrew Letters.
Made in Israel
Wonderful abstract, modernist, Ke...
Category
Mid-20th Century Israeli Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bronze
Mid Century Sheldon Rose Alpha Sculpt Cube Letterpress Sculptures Bookends 1960s
By Sheldon Rose
Located in Troy, MI
Pair of Mid Century Modern typographic cube sculptures or bookends designed by Sheldon Rose circa 1960s
Titled "Alpha Sculpt" formed of cast metal with raised letters and symbols
...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Pair Large Faux Malachite Obelisks
Located in New York, NY
Pair of very large, vintage wooden obelisks with faux malachite and granite finish, each 39.5 inches tall. In good condition with some scuffs, scratches and small losses.
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Paco Rabanne Monumental Space Curtain, Baumann AG, Switzerland, Italy, 1968
By Baumann Kölliker AG, Paco Rabanne
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Monumental custom space curtain, Paco Rabanne for Baumann AG, Switzerland, 1960s. 107” x 91”. Gorgeous glittery orange metal geometric curtain/room divider by Paco Rabanne. Made of thin plasticized metal plates (rare version with multiple shapes -- square, circle and triangle plates-- that create a diagonal design from a distance). Made in the same manner as his couture dresses of the 1960's. Each plate is individually connected to the next with small hooks. Stunning piece and at a monumental scale.
Francisco Rabaneda Cuervo (born 18 February 1934), more commonly known under the pseudonym of Paco Rabanne is a Spanish fashion designer who became known as an enfant terrible of the 1960s French fashion...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swiss Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal, Brass
Set of Polished Brass and Chrome Tennis Racket Bookends
Located in New York, NY
Set of brass and chrome tennis racket bookends. Has thin foam on bottom to prevent scratching furniture. 5.5" high. Great on a book shelf or desk. Nice condition, ready to use. Any ...
Category
1980s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass, Chrome
Vintage 1960s Modernist Inspired Handcrafted Hanging Wall Sculpture/Room Divider
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage 1960s Modernist inspired handcrafted hanging wall sculpture / room divider by New Zealand Artist Andrew Reid. circa 1990s.
Features a combi...
Category
1990s American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wire
Conant Ball Mid Century Maple Room Divider
By Conant Ball
Located in Countryside, IL
Conant ball mid century maple room divider
This room divider measures: 52 wide x 21.5 deep x 68.75 inches high
All pieces of furniture can...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Maple
Richard Harvey Sculpta-Grille Model C-20 Freestanding Room Divider, 1959
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This freestanding model C-20 Sculpta-Grille room divider by Richard Harvey for Harvey Design Workshop, Inc was conceptualized and designed in the 1950s a...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Baumann Fils & Cie Midcentury Paravent Paris Room Divider Screen
Located in Countryside, IL
Baumann Fils & Cie midcentury Paravent Paris room divider screen
This room divider measures: 142 wide x 1 deep x 63.5 inches high
All pieces of furn...
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
AItalian 1970s handmade wrought iron room divider screen by Salvino Marsura
Located in London, GB
A unique Italian 1970s handmade gilt wrought iron screen room divider by Salvino Marsura decorated with flowers and leaves, stamped "Marsura"
Salvino Marsura is an Italian artist bor...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Iron, Wrought Iron
Room Divider by Fred Leyman
By Fred Leyman
Located in Stockholm, SE
Spectacular sculptural room divider by Fred Leyman, custom-made for Majorna Library in Gothenburg in 1963. This piece is one of four that are each unique, made from wrought iron and hardened leather. The room dividers were granted substantial public interest and the studies for them were subsequently exhibited at Liljevalchs Konsthall in 1966. They were returned to the artist in the 1990s and acquired by Nordlings from the Leyman family in 2016.
Fred Leyman was a Swedish artist, schooled at the renowned Valand Art Academy in Gothenburg during the 1950s. Leyman worked in a distinctly modernist style influenced by the international modernist movement, music, political ideas and the environment in which he lived. He is best known for his around 40 large-scale sculptures erected in public spaces in Gothenburg and other parts of southwestern Sweden.
Fred Leyman lived on the island of Orust with his wife and children, in accordance with what he found to be ”a good life” – close to nature on a small farm with sheep and horses. He was also deeply interested in music, particularly traditional folk music. Both the open, marine landscape of Orust and the rhythmical qualities in music were vital forces in his artistry and in the development of his personal style. Leyman used iron and steel and sometimes wood and leather in his sculptures. These are characterized by sharp and billowing graphic lines and the use of negative space, seemingly always reaching somewhere. It is an expression striking the perfect balance between abstract and concrete.
Leyman’s materials of choice were particularly suitable for large and sustainable...
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1960s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wrought Iron
Vladimir Kagan Architectural Louvered & Illuminated Room Divider with COA, 1967
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An incredibly rare louvered and illuminated room divider in solid walnut floating over a cylindrical brass foot, custom-designed by Vladimir Kagan circa 1967. Six sculptural, marquise-shaped slats are angled at 45 degrees to the frame and flank the light box which houses a single 6-foot fluorescent bulb.
Authenticated by and registered with the Vladimir Kagan Design Group, this piece is offered to the collector with all corresponding documents including certificate of authenticity, company letter, related archival photos, and numbered registration plaque. While their archivists have seen similar slatted dividers that Kagan designed (see last image in this listing), they’d not seen one with an incorporated lighting element before and thus feel that this example may well be one-of-a-kind or, at the very least, from a strictly limited run.
That said, it seems that this general concept of combining lighting with room partitioning...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Bamboo Screen, Room Divider, natural color. Spain 1970s
Located in Barcelona, Cataluna
Bamboo screen, Room divider . Circa 1970. Spain.
There is nothing metal, the same bamboo acts as a hinge.
It is in very good condition .
This type of material was widely used in the ...
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1970s Spanish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bamboo
Three Fold Crocodile Skin Room Divider
Located in Kent, Dover
A French three fold room divider in hand stitched black crocodile skin. The reverse of plain dark wood, and with brass hinges.
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Leather
Bamboo Wicker Rattan Screen Room Divider, Three-Panel Folder, 1960s
Located in Atlanta, GA
Crafted in France in the 1960s, this stunning rattan or wicker and bamboo three-panel room divider boasts a typical Mid-century filigree decoration. This rattan screen features mid-c...
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal, Brass
Mid-Century Modern Blenko Bookends by Wayne Husted, USA, 1960's
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Mid-Century Modern Blenko Bookends by Wayne Husted, USA, 1960's.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Glass, Art Glass
Mid-Century Beige Suitcase with Alligator Trim
Located in Queens, NY
American mid-century beige woven and brown alligator trim suitcase (valise).
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Painted Wooden Folding Screen, 5 Panels, 20th Century.
Located in Saint-Ouen, FR
Painted wooden folding screen, 5 panels, 20th century.
Painted wooden folding screen, 5 panels, 20th century.
Centre: H: 128cm, W: 59cm, D: 2.5cm
Sides: H: 128cm, W: 40cm, D: 2,5cm
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Alabaster Mushroom Bookends, Italy, 1960s
Located in Benalmadena, ES
Pair of sculptural mushroom-shaped bookends, handcrafted in Italy from natural alabaster during the 1960s, exemplifying the organic elegance of Mid-Century design. Each piece is carv...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Alabaster
Rare Wood Screen of Kalengo Wood by Jerome Abel Sequin
Located in Munich, Bavaria
This beautifully crafted wooden screen is by the designer and artist Jerome Abel Seguin who carves and works these beautiful pieces in his studio in Fran...
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Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Mid-20th Century Brass Bookends Inspired by 'the Thinker' from Auguste Rodin
Located in Casteren, Noord-Brabant
A pair of brass bookends, depicting The Thinker by Auguste Rodin. Presumably made in Italy, around 1960-1970. Good condition, beautiful colour and patina.
Dimensions: 18 (h) x 8,5 ...
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1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Sculptural Three-Panel Folding Screen Room Divider in Rattan and Wicker, 1960s
Located in Miami, FL
This is a beautiful and rare wooden four-panel folding screen with hand painting en both sides, circa 1960. Beautiful four-panel screen, room divider, framing with intricately carv...
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1960s European Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan
Mid-Century Modern Surfboard Shape Tier Bookshelf
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Transforming a piece of Mid-Century Modern furniture is like bringing history back to life, and we take this journey with passion and precision. With over 17 years of artisanal exper...
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1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Walnut
Original 1950s Eames for Herman Miller FSW-6 Folding Screen Room Divider
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An early molded plywood screen divider in calico ash, designed by Charles & Ray Eames, manufactured by Herman Miller. The screen's ingenious design allows it to be formed into a vari...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Ash
1960s Replogle 'Comprehensive' Illuminated Globe on Walnut Base
Located in Brooklyn, NY
1960s Replogle 'Comprehensive' globe composed of paper gores over plastic with a cast aluminum half-meridian all mounted to a walnut base equipped with two upright dividers for paper...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Aluminum
Set of Four Sculptural German Art Nouveau Brass Bronze Bookends 1900
Located in Berlin, DE
Set of four decorative Art Nouveau brass/bronze bookends.
Germany, 1900s.
Category
Early 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass, Bronze
Pair Art Deco Bookends with Harer by Marti Font, 1920-1930
By M. Font
Located in Oud Beijerland, NL
Very nice pair of Art Deco book ends with sculptures of two harer, France 1920-1930.
Made of casted spelter, patinated in a green bronze-like color,...
Category
1920s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Marble, Spelter
4 Panel Honey Comb Checker Board Style Carved Teak Screen Room Divider MINT!
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Danish Mid Century Modern 4 Panel Honey Comb Checker Board Style Carved Teak Screen Room Divider MINT!
Category
20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Teak
American Victorian Globe
Located in Queens, NY
American Victorian style globe of the world with a relief supported on a pedestal base stand with 3 legs.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Marshall Studios Gordan Jane Martz Tile Walnut Bookends Mid Century
Located in Forest Grove, PA
Iconic walnut and ceramic tile plinth bookends, designed by Jane and Gordon Martz of Marshall Studios. 1960s. One retains the original production sticker. The thickness of the walnut...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Vintage Rustic Wooden Decorative Storage Trunk.
Located in Seattle, WA
Rustic Storage Trunk with Original Metal Hardware and Patina. Sturdy Construction. No Maker’s Mark. Vintage Condition Consistent with Age as Pictured.
Dimensions. 29 W ; 8 D ; 9 H
Category
1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Cenedese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Pair of Blue Italian Murano Glass Obelisks
By Cenedese
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
Cenedese vintage midcentury modern tall and rare pair of Murano solid light blue colored / coloured faceted glass obelisks, made circa 1970. Wonderful Italian glass and perfect as an...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Early Eames Screen Room Divider FSW-6 Custom Order in Rosewood
Located in Seattle, WA
An extremely rare first generation Eames FSW-6 privacy screen, custom ordered in Rosewood Veneer at 61 inch height, with cotton fabric connector in good condition, no tears, only fraying at the end. Rosewood was generally not an option for the privacy screen throughout the first production, and can only be custom ordered.
We have checked with the Herman Miller Archive and the Eames foundation to ensure this is the first generation Eames screen...
Category
1950s North American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Plywood, Rosewood
Charlotte Perriand Paravent Ambassade Screen by Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Paravent Ambassade indoors screen designed by Cassina in collaboration with Ginori 1735 and Pernette Perriand-Barsac.
Manufactured in Italy by Cassina.
...
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2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Porcelain
Small 4-Step Wooden Library Ladder - Italy - 1960s
Located in Milano, IT
Small, unobtrusive four-step library ladder mounted in a spiral pattern on a central turned wooden board.
Italian production, circa 1960s.
Good conditions.
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
1950s Replogle Glass Illuminated Precision Globe
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This 10" 'Precision' Globe was manufactured in the early 1950s by Replogle (Chicago, IL) and edited by cartographer, Gustav Brueckmann. Composed of p...
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1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal, Brass
Pair of Mid Century Solid Brass Ben Seibel Bookends
By Ben Seibel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Solid Brass Mid Century Modern bookends. The light and architectural look is very chic, while holding larger and more substantial books. Very Modern, and a compliment to an...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
6' Tall Vintage Room Divider, Japanese, 4 Fold Screen, Mid Century, Circa 1950
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a tall vintage room divider. A Japanese, 4 fold screen, dating to the mid 20th century, circa 1950.
Usefully articulated screen with superb decorative appeal
Displays a des...
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Mid-20th Century Japanese Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Elegant Italian Obelisk in Bronze
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Bronze obelisk with elegant proportions, stamped "made in Italy".
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bronze
JRO Table Globe 1930s Germany
By JRO-Verlag 1
Located in Den Haag, NL
Very nice Table Globe . manufactured by JRO Munchen Germany
1930s . Aluminum Art Deco base . so decorative .
Category
1930s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Paper
Mid-Century Modern German Plant Stand Rattan Bamboo Room Divider, 1950s
Located in Nuernberg, DE
An amazing Mid-Century Modern plant stand, flower pot holder or room divider. made in Germany, circa 1950s. This is a beautiful all original item in...
Category
1950s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan, Wood
Vintage Mid Century Modern Globe Stand Decor Retro Wood Petal Map World Seattle
Located in Seattle, WA
World Ocean globe rising on a Mid-Century Modern Art deco stand, 14in Diameter 33" tall. Some light scuffing/scratchings from age appropriate wear.
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1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Pair New Unfinished Baker Obelisk Shape Double Sided 360 Degree Walnut Bookcases
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Pair New Unfinished Baker Obelisk Shape Double Sided 360 Degree Walnut Bookcases.
These Baker cabinets are new unfinished from the baker factory. Unusual looking cabinets and unusua...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Walnut
Jules Wabbes Illuminated Library in Wood and Brass
By Jules Wabbes
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Jules Wabbes for Mobilier Universel, bookcase, in brass and wood, Belgium, 1960s
Rare wall unit designed by master furniture-maker Jules Wabbes. This exceptional piece could be use...
Category
1960s Belgian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Brass Globe Cigarette Holder and Ashtray/Coin Dish, circa 1960
Located in San Francisco, CA
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An original mid-century brass cigarette holder and ashtray or coin dish. The lid slides open on the globe's axis to reveal a metal interi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal, Brass
Mid-century Modern home accents for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Mid-Century Modern home accents 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 home accents created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include more furniture and collectibles, decorative objects, case pieces and storage cabinets and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, wood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Mid-Century Modern home accents made in a specific country, there are Europe, North America, and United States pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original home accents, popular names associated with this style include Werkstätte Carl Auböck, Blenko, Ben Seibel, and Replogle Globes. 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 home accents differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $50 and tops out at $188,000 while the average work can sell for $1,200.