Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
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
Klismos Chair in Velvet Stripes Upholstery and Walnut Wood
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Curved back side chair or desk chair by La Maison Pierre Frey. Upholstered in Ken Fulk's Velvet Lines featuring cut velvet in multi-colors of brown, salmon, and burnt orange. Highl...
Category
2010s French Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Textile, Velvet, Beech, Walnut
Modernist Mexican San Miguel Lounge Chair by Michael van Beuren from Luteca
Located in New York, NY
The San Miguel lounge chair is a timeless mid-century Mexican piece inspired by the classic Latin American Butaque chair famed by the likes of 20th Century Mexican architect Luis Barragan and Industrial Designer Clara Porset. Michael van Beuren, an American born designer trained at Germany's famous Bauhuas school, produced this award winning piece in 1941 for the MoMA's Organic Design Exhibition in New York along with it's sister-design, the Alacran Chaise...
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2010s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Teak
Mario Bellini Cab Armchair for Cassina
By Mario Bellini, Cassina
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The iconic armchair designed by Mario Bellini for Cassina c.1970s, Italy, feature the original camel saddle leather which is wrapped atop the steel frames. The back legs feature a bl...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Steel
$3,000 / item
Set of Four Danish Mid Century Danish Modern Rosewood Spindle Back Dining Chairs
By Sibast
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Set of four high quality Danish Mid-Century Modern dining chairs with newly upholstered seats.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Upholstery, Rosewood
Eero Saarinen for Knoll Executive Side Chair in White Ivory Shearling c. 1950
By Knoll, Eero Saarinen
Located in Saint Louis, MO
Executive side chair designed by Mid Century Modern designer royalty Eero Saarinen and constructed by one of the very top makers of quality modern furniture of the time, Knoll. Eero ...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Metal
Wicker Chair for Child French, circa 1960
Located in Labrit, Landes
French chair made in wicker in the 20th mid-century.
Solid and sound
Shipping:
P 40 L 41 H 42 cm 0.5 kg.
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Wicker
Pair of Paul Laszlo Chairs from the Brentwood Country Club, circa 1954
By Paul Laszlo
Located in Saint Louis, MO
A favorite of Paul Laszlo, these chairs were featured in design projects for the Brentwood Country Club (see photo), Mr. Laszlo's personal residence, and the Fausto M. Ricci family. ...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Leather, Wood
Vittorio Nobili Walnut Plywood & Brass 'Medea' Chair
Located in Utrecht, NL
'Medea' chair, designed by Italian designer Vittorio Nobili for Tagliabue, Italy 1955.
Molded walnut plywood shell with high gloss lacquer finish accented with brass hardware.
Four...
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Brass, Steel
Solid Cherry and Cane Seat and Back Folding Chairs with Cushions, a Pair
Located in Germantown, MD
Exquisite pair of solid cherry and cane seat and back folding chairs with cushions.
Very well kept and in excellent vintage condition. Come with soft green velvet cushion...
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Velvet, Cane, Cherry
T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings for Widdicomb Beige Fabric & Walnut Slipper Chair
Located in Queens, NY
American Mid-Century slipper / side chair with a walnut frame, square profile, and beige fabric upholstery, resting on four slightly tapered dowel legs. (T.H. ROBSJOHN-GIBBINGS FOR W...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Fabric
Fine Quality Chrome Klismos Style Chair
Located in Bridgeport, CT
A fine polished chrome klismos style chair with heavy construction. With the elegant and classic curved back and curved tapering square supports a...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Chrome
Mid Century Modern Lee Woodard Gilt Iron Metal Side Chair
Located in Lambertville, NJ
Mid-Century Modern original Lee Woodard side chairs with gilt and red painted finish. These Salterini French style wrought iron accent chairs have been reupholstered in a fabulous c...
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1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Metal, Iron
Oak and Leather Cruz Barstool by Lawson-Fenning
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The Cruz barstool is made from a solid American walnut or white oak frame that features a cantilevered shape and lacquered brass stretchers. The seat is ...
Category
2010s American Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Brass
$2,237 / item
Guillerme et Chambron, Chaise Véronique, Set of Four Side Chairs, France, C 1970
Located in New York, NY
Robert Guillerme studied design and architecture at the École Boule, graduating in 1934. After the Second World War he moved to Lille, in the north of France, where he decorated homes and designed furniture for the well regarded Rogier workshops.
In 1948 Jacques Chambron left his work as a painter and decorator on the Rue Nollet in Paris, and relocated his family to join Guillerme. The two had met in 1940 while imprisoned by the Germans in East Prussia and bonded over, among other more obvious things, their shared passion for design. In 1949 the pair discovered Émile Dariosecq, a master cabinet maker who had a shop in the city, and who was willing to produce their designs. The three started Votre Maison.
The association was destined to be as influential as prolific. Not only did Votre Maison produce over two thousand models during the later half of the twentieth century, it also left an indelible stamp on design of the 50s, 60s and 70s. The company’s output served as a model for a vast field of livable contemporaneous design.
The soul of Guillerme et Chambron’s work was in the company’s name (“Your House"). Their focus was as keenly attuned to functionality—furniture’s use in daily life—as to the creation of innovative design. For the pair of designers the home was envisioned as a place where the family could live both comfortably and in aesthetic harmony.
Robert Guillerme, who designed most of the work, possessed a limitless creative ambition, producing designs for everything from grand dressers and sideboards to the smallest elements of a space, such as pedestals, shelving, benches, and lighting.
This steady output of beautiful furniture bucked convention not merely in the equal emphasis Guillerme placed on function and aesthetics, but in the almost paradoxical creation...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Upholstery, Oak
Mario Bellini Cab Lounge Chair for Cassina
By Mario Bellini, Cassina
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This iconic chair designed by Mario Bellini for Cassina c.1970s, Italy, features the original natural toned saddle leather which is wrapped atop a steel frame. The seat has a rounded...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Steel
$5,000 / item
Set of Two Danish Leather Side Chairs, 1950
By Ole Wanscher
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wonderful set of two Danish leather arm chairs by Ole Wanscher, matching high and low back versions, solid dark beech frames with chocolate colored, tufted leather cushions, measurem...
Category
1950s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Leather, Wood
$2,600 / set
‘Strip’ Chairs with Armrests in Dark-Brown Ashwood by Gijs Bakker for Castelijn
By Castelijn, Gijs Bakker
Located in Voorburg, NL
Very rare set of ‘Strip’ dining chairs with armrests, designed in 1974 by Gijs Bakker for Castelijn in the Netherlands (marked). Only a limited amount of these chairs were made with ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Wood
"Masp 7th Abril" Chair, by Lina Bo Bardi, 1947, Mid-Century Brazilian
Located in New York, NY
This iconic chair was designed by the Italian-born Brazilian architect Lina Bo Bardi (1914-1992) for the MASP's auditorium when it still was placed on 7th April street...
Category
1940s Brazilian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Leather, Rosewood
Set of 4 Thonet No 4 "Cafe Daum" Benwood Chairs by Salvatore Leone, Circa 1960s
Located in Germantown, MD
Set of 4 Thonet Cafe Daum N°4, 1960. By Salvatore Leone
No 4 "Café Daum" designed by Thonet around 1860, and constantly produced until 1930 by the fa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Bentwood
$3,496 Sale Price / set
30% Off
Occasional Chair Henry Rosengren Hansen model 39
Located in New York, NY
Occasional chair model 39, designed by Henry Rosengren Hansen manufactured by Brande Moebelindustri 1960s. Beautifully constructed of Rosewood with a Naugahyde leather seat. In very good condition. Danish oil finish with new seat covering. A great example of Danish Mid Century Modern...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Naugahyde, Rosewood
Set 6 Charles Hollis Jones Mid-Century Modern Lucite X Base Dining Chair
Located in Miami, FL
Superb set of 6 tubular lucite & brass dining chairs with a Gothic shaped high back rest, designed by Charles Hollis Jones in the 1970.
Very detailed with brass tip to the backrest ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Lucite, Fabric
$6,230 Sale Price / set
30% Off
One Bruno Rey for Stendig Stacking Chair
By Bruno Rey
Located in Pasadena, TX
One chair designed by Bruno Rey and made by Stendig. One side chair with upholstered seat in a royal blue leather.
1 side chair
1 armchair
Reupholste...
Category
1970s Swiss Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Oak
Pair of Rattan Bar Stools by Tito Agnoli for Bonacina, Italy 1950s
By Tito Agnoli, Bonacina
Located in Roma, IT
Magnificent pair of Mid-Century bar stools in curved rattan and wicker. These stunning stools were designed by Tito Agnoli for Bonacina in Italy in the 1950s.
The stools feature a ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Wicker, Rattan
"Moduline" Chairs, Design by Ole Gjerløv-Knudsen for France & Søn, 1960s
Located in Wolfurt, AT
"Moduline" chairs designed by Ole Gjerløv-Knudsen for France & Søn. The chairs have their original covering on a straight-lined wooden structure. They can be placed in a modular way....
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Wood
20th Century Danish Vintage France & Son Teakwood Rocking Chair by Ole Wanscher
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A light-brown, vintage Mid-Century Modern Danish Schaukelstuhl, rocking chair made of hand carved Teakwood, designed by Ole Wanscher and produced by France & Søn, in good condition. ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Leather, Teak
Classic Set of 6 Bentwood Cafe Dining Chairs, Attributed to Thonet
By Thonet
Located in Buffalo, NY
Classic set of 6 bentwood cafe dining chairs attributed to Thonet, recently reupholstered in a leopard print fabric, set consists of 4 matching chair...
Category
1930s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Bentwood
Pair of Mid-Century Modern Lucite Chairs with Upholstered Cushions
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This pair of chairs features a solid lucite construction and tufted upholstery seat which offer a sleek, modern flare to any home or office space.
Please confirm item location (NY...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Lucite
$720 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Portuguese Pair of Leather Dining chairs with Studs
Located in Lisboa, Lisboa
Pair of leather chairs with studs. Straight backrest and upholstered leather seat secured by visible panels that run along the entire upper edge, with a simple and functional structu...
Category
1850s Portuguese Antique Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Wood, Leather
Set of Four Raphael "Wishbone" Chairs in Leather & Stainless Steel, France 1950s
Located in New York, NY
Set of four Raphael dining or side chairs on stainless steel bases.
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Stainless Steel
Enzo Mari, Side Chair, Plywood, Beech, Italy, 1980s
By Enzo Mari
Located in High Point, NC
A plywood and beech side chair or dining room chairs designed by Enzo Mari and produced by Driade, Italy, c. 1980.
Scratching present to wood consistent with age and use
Wear consi...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Wood, Beech, Plywood
Two Danish BO-561 Chairs in Leather by Preben Fabricius & Jorgen Kastholm
Located in Shepperton, Surrey
Two Danish BO-561 chairs in steel and leather by Preben Fabricius & Jorgen Kastholm for BO-EX.
Of 1960s vintage, these architectural design classics a...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Steel
Peter Ghyczy for Ghyczy Design, Red Garden Egg or Senftenberg Egg, 1968
By Peter Ghyczy
Located in Amsterdam IJMuiden, NL
This item is part of the private collection of Casey Godrie and is situated in his private house.
Ask him for competitive shipping quotes. His incredible Dune Villa, Amsterdam Beach...
Category
1960s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Upholstery, Polyester
$1,885 Sale Price
28% Off
Don Albinson Stacking Side Chairs by Knoll Set of 14
By Knoll, Don Albinson
Located in Highland, IN
Important industrial designer Don Albinson, a Cranbrook peer of Charles and Ray Eames, Ralph Rapson, Harry Bertoia and Eero Saarinen worked in the Eames office as head designer for 1...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Aluminum
Roland Rainer, Set of Four Stacking Chairs P7, Bicolored Beech, Austria, 1952
Located in Hausmannstätten, AT
A set of four stacking chairs designed by Professor Roland Rainer (1910-2004) in 1952 and manufactured by Emil & Alfred Pollak, Vienna.
Roland Rainer used these chairs for the Vienne...
Category
1950s Austrian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Plywood, Wood, Beech, Bentwood
Mid Century Metal Art Klismos Patio Chair Set
By Thinline
Located in Las Vegas, NV
Beautiful set of 4 Klismos chairs by the southern California firm Thinline.
These look barely used and never abused, circa 1960s
Sculpted square bar...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Metal
$1,596 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Frankl Style Bamboo Rattan Arm Chair
Located in New York, NY
Paul Frankl style bamboo rattan arm chair with new Starfish upholstery. Slight wear to frame finish.
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Upholstery, Bamboo, Rattan
$618 Sale Price
34% Off
Pair of Midcentury Art Deco Barrel Hall Chairs Side Chairs, France, Circa 1950
Located in London, GB
A Pair of Mid Century Art Deco Barrel Chairs. France, Circa 1950.
In excellent vintage condition commensurate of age.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Teak
Vittorio Parigi & Nanni Prina for Molteni Desk Chair 'Orix' in Red Leatherette
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Vittorio Parigi & Nanni Prina for Molteni, desk chair model 'Orix', leatherette, chrome-plated metal, Italy, circa. 1970.
This chair by Vittorio Parigi & Nanni Prina is part of the...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Metal, Chrome
Elephant Hide Gray Eames Herman Miller Molded Fiberglass DAX Arm Shell Chair H B
Located in Topeka, KS
Awesome example of the Charles and Ray Eames DAX fiberglass arm shell chair for Herman Miller. It is in elephant hide gray with a black H base and unusual glide feet. It retains a pa...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Metal
Set of 4 Daystak Side Chairs - Beech & Walnut - by Robin Day for &Tradition
By &Tradition, Robin Day
Located in Dubai, AE
Designed with stackability in mind, the Daystak Side Chair by Robin Day is a lesson in functional utility and the beauty of simple forms. Exhibiting the designer’s dedication to craf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Latvian Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Wood
Pair of Harvey Probber Slat Back Wood and Caned Seat Side Chairs
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of American mid-century side / desk chairs with wooden frames with four vertical back slats and a caned seat. (HARVEY PROBBER)(PRICED AS PAIR)
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Wood
Charles Eames & Eero Saarinen “Organic Chair” Model No. A3501, 1950, USA
Located in Biebergemund, Hessen
Very rare and collectible Eames & Saarinen "Organic Chair", winner of Organic Design competition at MoMa. First manufacture from the early 1950s, laminated and moulded wooden seat shell, foam upholstery which was covered with textile fabric designed by Marli Ehrman. A special patented joint holds the wood legs firmly to the shell.
Originals of the organic from the 1950s are collector's items and exhibited in museums. They are also traded on art auctions, where one was sold in 1999 for $ 120.000 in bed condition. (take a look at the picture)
Designed for the “Organic Design” competition by Museum of Modern Art in New York on 1 October 1940. The competition was initiated by Elliot Noyes, the first curator of this newly installed department. The goal was to motivate architects and companies to develop and market modern furniture for a modern lifestyle.
Their participation in the MoMa competition was the first collaboration between Eero Saarinen and Charles Eames, and they won first prize.
Besides the chair, their submission comprised a high-back chair, an armchair, a sofa, and office furniture, which they presented in the form of several drawings. No true-to-scale prototypes were produced for the competition. Production of the “Organic Chair” only started in 1950 and was terminated after a short while.
The original design had envisaged aluminium legs. This idea was discarded because the material was scarce during the war, and wood was used instead. New technologies were also involved in the production of the seat shell, which was composed of strips of veneer and was to ensure utmost stability and comfort while using as little material as possible and being extremely lightweight. Later on, Eames based...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Plywood
Set of Four Dining Side Chairs by Adrian Pearsall for Craft Associates, 1960s
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Designed by iconic mid-century modernist Adrian Pearsall and produced by Craft Associates in the 1960s, this elegant set of four (4) high-back side chairs (Model 2051-C) showcases th...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Wood
1 of 8 Erik Buch Chair 1960s Danish Teak Vintage
Located in Hannover, DE
Side chair by Danish designer Erik Buch from the 1960s.
Displayed price is for 1 chair. Totally up to 8 available.
Sturdy teak wood frames. Refurbished and oiled.
Seat and chair ...
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1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Teak
Rare Plywood Prototype Chair C.1960's
Located in Long Island City, NY
Rare plywood prototype chair circa 1960's designed by an unknown student from the Chicago school of design, the New Bauhaus, founded by Lazlo Moholy-Nagy in 1937. Design was influenc...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Wood
Mid-Century Modern Vintage Chiavari Brass Side Chair or Chair, 1950s, Italy
Located in Vienna, AT
Mid-Century Modern vintage Chiavari brass side chair or chair, which was designed, 1950s, Italy.
The brass side chair is reupholstered and the seat is covered with light brown velvet...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Brass
Handcrafted Studio Windsor Chair by Fabian Fischer, Germany 2023
Located in Berlin, DE
Made to order windsor chair by German Woodworker Fabian Fischer. Made in the tradition and quality of American Studio Craftsmanship. The price reflects ...
Category
2010s German Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Wood
Bill Stephens Bentwood Dining Chair for Knoll
By Knoll
Located in La Mesa, CA
Chair consists of a bentwood frame made out of oak and an upholstered seat in navy blue fabric. Produced in the 1980s, has Knoll International labels.
Category
1980s North American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Fabric, Teak
$440 Sale Price
24% Off
Mid Century Chair Model Rennie by Kazuhide Takahama for Simon Gavina, Italy 70
Located in Lucija, SI
Rennie chair designed by Kazuhide Takahama for studio Simon, Gavina in the 70s.
Original lacquered wood structure with leather cover and seat.
It is in good condition with traces of ...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Leather, Wood
Vintage 'Ulisse' Green Folding Cane Chairs by Ivan Loss for Pompis
By Ivan Loss
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Vintage green folding cane chairs by Pompis in the style of the 'Ulisse' by Ivan Loss. These are called "baston-silla" meaning "stick-chair". Green ...
Category
1980s Dutch Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Metal, Enamel
Set of 8 Daystak Side Chairs - Beech & Walnut - by Robin Day for &Tradition
By Robin Day, &Tradition
Located in Dubai, AE
Designed with stackability in mind, the Daystak Side Chair by Robin Day is a lesson in functional utility and the beauty of simple forms. Exhibiting the designer’s dedication to craf...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Latvian Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Wood
Space Age Vintage White Metal Chair or Side Chair by Rodney Kinsman, 1971
Located in Vienna, AT
Space Age vintage white chair or side chair model Omstak designed by Rodney Kinsman 1971 and produced by Bieffeplast, Caselle di Selvazzano.
The extraordinary chair shows perforated ...
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Metal
1959 Verner Panton Early Fiberglass S Chair for Herman Miller
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, S Chair
Vintage modern at its finest iconic S chair designed by Verner Panton for Herman Miller.
Designed in 1959. Production 1960s. Unmarked.
Note fiberglass...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Fiberglass
2 Mid-Century French Round Bamboo and Rattan Chairs
Located in Queens, NY
Pair of Mid-Century French round bamboo and rattan chairs (Vintage condition, some losses).
Category
20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Rattan
Pair of T Side Chairs by Katavolos, Littell & Kelley for Laverne International
Located in Dorchester, MA
William Katavolos in partnership with Douglas Kelley & Ross Littell designed the iconic sling-back T chair in 1952 as model 3LC in Laverne International's sculptural New Furniture se...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Chrome, Steel
T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings for Widdicomb Orange Velour and Walnut Slipper Chair
Located in Queens, NY
American Mid-Century slipper / side chair with a walnut frame, square profile, and orange velour upholstery, resting on four slightly tapered dowel legs. (T.H. ROBSJOHN-GIBBINGS FOR ...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Upholstery, Wood, Walnut
Classic Modernist Hill House Chair by Charles R. Mackintosh for Cassina, 1980s
Located in Renens, CH
The Willow chair was originally designed in 1904 by architect Charles R. Macintosh for the Villa Hill House in Helensburgh, Scotland: Production rights were acquired by Cassina durin...
Category
1980s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Leather, Wood
(1) Lane High Back Cane Burl Dining Chairs 6 AVAILABLE
Located in Pasadena, TX
(1) High Back Dining Chairs by Lane Furniture 10 AVAILABLE
Rare set of high-back chairs in oak featuring cane backs and velvet upholstery.
Eight side and two armchairs.
Category
1970s North American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Oak
21st Century European Alder Teakwood Side Chair
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
The hand crafted primitive side chair is made out of reclaimed teak wood and adds a rustic touch to any interior. Variations in wood and finish will occur. Suitable for interior or e...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary European Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Teak
Arne Jacobsen Red & Chrome Butterfly Chair
Located in Hanover, MA
Arne Jacobsen for Fritz Hansen red 3107 butterfly side chair with chromed legs. Original design 1955. This edition manufactured in Denmark 1995. Very clean.
Category
1990s Danish Mid-Century Modern Side Chairs
Materials
Chrome
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