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Sofas For Sale
Period: Early 20th Century
Period: 1970s
Anfibio Sofa Bed In Cognac Leather By Alessandro Becchi For Giovanetti Collezion
Located in ABCOUDE, UT
Incredible Anfibio sofa bed by Alessandro Becchi for Giovanetti Collezione Italy 1971. This stunning cognac leather upholstery fits perfectly with the white teddy fabric on the mattr...
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1970s Vintage Sofas

Materials

Leather, Bouclé

Three-Seater Sesann Sofa by Gianfranco Frattini for Cassina, Italy, 1970s
Located in Brussels, BE
Three-Seater Sesann Sofa by Gianfranco Frattini for Cassina, Italy, 1970s
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1970s Vintage Sofas

Materials

Chrome

Blob Modular Sofa by Carlo Bartoli, italy, 1970s - New Upholstery
Located in Brussels, BE
Blob Modular Sofa by Carlo Bartoli, italy, 1970s - New Upholstery dimensions : - 68 W x 72,5 D x 68H cm -With armrests : 73,5 W Seat height : 33
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Fabric, Wood

Antique English Sheraton Style Mahogany Inlay Sofa W/ Down Cushion Circa 1920
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Circa 1920 Antique English Sheraton Style Carved Mahogany Sofa With Classical Sheraton Inlay Detailing and Oversized Down Cushion. Solid Walnut Hardwood Construction and Hand Dovetailed Joinery. Eight way hand tied...
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Early 20th Century American Sheraton Sofas

Materials

Mahogany, Wool, Fabric, Hardwood

De Sede Sectional Sofa ‘DS-76’ in Black Leather
Located in Waalwijk, NL
De Sede, modular sofa, model ‘DS-76’, leather, Switzerland, 1970s This high-quality sectional sofa designed by De Sede in the 1970s contains one corner element, one regular element ...
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1970s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Leather

Italian Design Marzio Cecchi Three-seater Sofa in Brown Buffalo Leather, 1970s
Located in Renens, CH
An exceptional three seater sofa, executed in thick and very heavy buffalo hide; the aged leather shows a wonderful deep dark-brown patina, it remains in excellent condition, with so...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Leather

Mid Century Modern Italian Seating Set "Zingaro", Original Upholstery
Located in Brussels, BE
Mid-Century Modern Italian seating set "Zingaro" - original upholstery. Sofa : 160 x 90 x 63 cm Amrchair : 93 x 90 x 63 cm.
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Fabric

Pair of italian armchairs in yellow velvet, 1970s
Located in Brussels, BE
A very comfortable design with eye-catching colors, these 1970s Italian armchairs have been recently upholstered in vibrant yellow corduroy. Their generous shape invites you to sit a...
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1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Sofas

Materials

Velvet, Cord

Vintage Italian Ruched Cognac Leather Mid-Century Modern Seating Set, 1970s
Located in Zagreb, HR
A beautiful three-part Mid-Century-Modern modular Italian seating set in ruched cognac leather, consisting of two armchairs and one three-seater sofa. Overall in very good vintage c...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Leather

Danish Dark Brown Leather Large 2 Seater Sofa Mid Century 1970s
Located in London, GB
A beautiful Danish dark brown leather large 2 seater sofa, this would make a stylish addition to any living or work area. The sofa has wide seats and padded armrests for enhanced co...
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1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Leather

Italian Sofa in Peach Corduroy Velvet
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Sofa, corduroy velvet, wood, Italy, 1970s This delicate sofa has a cozy and bulky appeal. An dark orange to peach velvet has been used to cover the seating. The textured surface of ...
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1970s Italian Vintage Sofas

Materials

Velvet, Wood

Hämeen Kalustaja, Sofa, Pine, Leather, Finland, 1970s
Located in High Point, NC
A pine and brown leather sofa designed and produced by Hämeen Kalustaja, Finland, 1970s. Seat height 14”.
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1970s Finnish Vintage Sofas

Materials

Leather, Pine

Maison Regain Living Room Set, France 1970s
Located in Antwerp, BE
Upgrade your living space with the stunning Maison Regain sofa set. This large set surely is an eye-catcher and will beautifully merge comfort and style. Whether you're entertaining ...
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1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Wood, Oak, Fabric, Linen, Elm

Ligne Roset by Michel Ducaroy Togo Pink Modular Sofa, Set of 5
Located in London, GB
The iconic Togo sofa, originally designed by Michel Ducaroy for Ligne Roset in 1973 has become a design Classic. This five-piece modular set is incredibly versatile and can be confi...
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1970s French Vintage Sofas

Materials

Fabric

Mario Bellini "Camaleonda" Modular Sofa for B&B Italia, 1970
Located in Lonigo, Veneto
Mario Bellini "Camaleonda" modular sofa for B&B Italia, Italy, 1970, four elements. "Camaleonda" is an icon, rediscovered. A special project made possible this limited edition of "...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Metal

Antique Chippendale Camelback Sofa with Scroll Arms, Blue, C1930
Located in Big Flats, NY
***Ask About Reduced In-House Delivery Rates - Reliable Professional Service & Fully Insured*** Antique Chippendale Camelback Sofa with Scroll Arms, Blue, C1930 Measures - 35.5"H x ...
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Early 20th Century Sofas

Materials

Upholstery

DeSede 600 Non Stop Chocolate Brown 18 Element Sofa, 1970s
Located in New York, NY
De Sede 600 non stop chocolate brown 18 element sofa, 1970s Beautiful distressed chocolate brown sofa by De Sede. This item needs to be reuphols...
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1970s Swiss Post-Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Leather, Wool

Vintage Italian Sofa
Located in Chicago, IL
fully restored in a cotton velvet and in excellent condition. This piece is incredibly comfortable
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1970s Italian Post-Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Velvet

Three Seat Voluptuous Sofa in Yellow Leather
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Three seat sofa, leather, Europe, 1970s Eye catching sofa made in the vibrant 1970s in Europe. This piece serves as a embodiment of both stylish design and comfort, with its plush a...
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1970s European Post-Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Metal

‘Pianura’ Modular Sofa by Mario Bellini for Cassina, Italy 1970s
Located in Chicago, IL
A 4-piece ‘Pianura’ sofa designed by iconic Italian designer Mario Bellini for Cassina. This sofa features a solid walnut wooden frame which has been refinished. It retains it’s orig...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Upholstery, Wood

Space Age 'Zeppelin' Sofa in Olive Green Leather by Walter Leeman for Velda
Located in Chicago, IL
An incredibly rare Space Age ‘Zeppelin’ sofa designed by Walter Leeman for Velda in 1972. Only 20 copies of this sofa were produced. Monumental dimensions and the fluid, tubular stru...
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1970s Belgian Space Age Vintage Sofas

Materials

Metal

1970s 5 piece Modular Sofa in Original Chocolate Brown Velvet
Located in Toronto, CA
Configure this impressive piece as you wish. The sofa sections can be used separately or together, lending a flexibility to your design. The backs and armrests are attached with ring...
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1970s Canadian Post-Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Fabric, Velvet, Foam

Italian sofa in yellow velvet, 1970s
Located in Brussels, BE
A very comfortable design with eye-catching colors. This 1970s Italian sofa has been recently upholstered in vibrant yellow corduroy. Its generous shape invites you to sit and lounge...
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1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Sofas

Materials

Velvet, Cord

1970s Vintage Bastiano Style Oak Sofa
Located in Boston, MA
Vintage Bastiano style sofa, circa 1970s. Oak frame showing lovely wood grain details. Floral cushions, dowel joint work, leather and slat seat supports. Clean minimalist design. Goo...
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Oak

Togo Sofa Set in Chocolate by Michel Ducaroy for AirBorne/Arconas (Ligne Roset)
Located in TORONTO, CA
Togo 5 Piece Sofa Set by Michel Ducaroy for Ligne Roset, produced under licence by Airborne/Arconas for the Canadian market. This beautiful and amazing large set has a stamped produc...
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1970s Canadian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Velvet, Foam

De Sede Ds86 Sofa in Brown Leather, 1970s
Located in HEVERLEE, BE
Beautiful dark brown leather sofa model DS86 designed and produced by De Sede. Good condition with good looking patina. Very comfortable. 1970s - Switzerland Dimensions...
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1970s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Leather

De Sede DS-61 Cedar Leather Sofa, 1972
Located in London, GB
An iconic mid century design, the De Sede DS-61 is no longer in production making it a collectible piece from the furniture manufacturer. Fully upholstered in soft cedar coloured leather, this three seat sofa features a slimline frame with curved edges to create a soft silhouette. Six back and seat cushions and two additional side cushions are upholstered in matching leather and mirror the shape of the armrests. Simple yet incredibly chic, this DS-61 sofa...
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1970s Swiss Vintage Sofas

Materials

Leather

Pair of Armchair Gio Ponti Casa e Giardino, 1930s Full Restoration by Greenapple
Located in Lisboa, PT
Collectible Vintage Italian armchair designed by Gio Ponti for the Casa e Giardino manufacturing company in the late 1930s. This iconic design piece has been completely restored fro...
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Early 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas

Materials

Oak

Vintage Mid-Century Scandinavian Danish Modern Brown Leather 3-Seater Sofa, 1970
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
This wide three-seater sofa was made in Denmark in the 1970s. The modernist frame with six pillows is upholstered in chestnut colored natural leather. The sofa has subtly rounded edg...
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1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Leather, Beech

Artifort Cubic Three-Seat Sofa in Brown Leather
Located in Waalwijk, NL
Artifort, sofa, leather, metal, The Netherlands, 1970s This cubic sofa features clear lines that result in a bold look. The backrest and armrests are on the same height. The patinat...
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1970s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Metal

Pair of Armchair Gio Ponti Casa e Giardino, 1930s Full Restoration by Greenapple
Located in Lisboa, PT
Collectible Vintage Italian armchair designed by Gio Ponti for the Casa e Giardino manufacturing company in the late 1930s. This iconic design piece has been completely restored fro...
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Early 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas

Materials

Brass

Carlo Scarpa Iroko Wood and Green Velvet Cornaro Sofa for Studio Simon, 1974
Located in Vicenza, IT
Cornaro two-seater sofa, designed by Carlo Scarpa and manufactured by Studio Simon in 1974. Made of Iroko wood, foam, and azure chenille velvet. Excellent vintage condition. Born in Venice on June 2nd, 1906, Carlo Scarpa began working very early. Only a year after he had first qualified as an architect in 1926, he began working for the Murano glassmakers Cappellin & Co. in a consultative capacity; from 1927, he began to experiment with the Murano glass, and this research not only gave him excellent results here but would also inform his progress for many years to come. Between 1935 and 1937, as he entered his thirties, Carlo Scarpa accepted his first important commission, the renovation of Venice’s Cà Foscari. He adapted the spaces of this stately University building which stands on the banks of the Grand Canal, creating rooms for the Dean’s offices and a new hall for academic ceremonies; Mario Sironi and Mario De Luigi were charged with doing the restoration work on the frescos. After 1945, Carlo Scarpa was constantly busy with new commissions, including various furnishings and designs for the renovation of Venice’s Hotel Bauer and designing a tall building in Padua and a residential area in Feltre, all worth mentioning. One of his key works, despite its relatively modest diminished proportions, was the first of many works which were to follow in the nineteen fifties: the [bookshop known as the] Padiglione del Libro, which stands in Venice’s Giardini di Castello and shows clearly Scarpa’s passion for the works of Frank Lloyd Wright. In the years which were to follow, after he had met the American architect, Scarpa repeated similar experiments on other occasions, as can be seen, in particular, in the sketches he drew up in 1953 for villa Zoppas in Conegliano, which show some of his most promising work. However, this work unfortunately never came to fruition. Carlo Scarpa later created three museum layouts to prove pivotal in how twentieth-century museums were set up from then on. Between 1955 and 1957, he completed extension work on Treviso’s Gipsoteca Canoviana [the museum that houses Canova’s sculptures] in Possagno, taking a similar experimental approach to the one he used for the Venezuelan Pavilion at [Venice’s] Giardini di Castello which he was building at the same time (1954-56). In Possagno Carlo Scarpa was to create one of his most incredible ever works, which inevitably bears comparison with two other museum layouts that he was working on over the same period, those of the Galleria Nazionale di Sicilia, housed in the Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo (1953-55) and at the Castelvecchio in Verona (1957- 1974), all of which were highly acclaimed, adding to his growing fame. Two other buildings, which are beautifully arranged in spatial terms, can be added to this long list of key works that were started and, in some cases, even completed during the nineteen fifties. After winning the Olivetti Award for architecture in 1956, Scarpa began work in Venice’s Piazza San Marco on an area destined to house products made by the Industrial manufacturers Ivrea. Over the same period (1959-1963), he also worked on renovating and restoring the gardens and ground floor of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, which many consider one of his greatest works. While he worked on-site at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Carlo Scarpa also began building a villa in Udine for the Veritti family. To shed some light on how much his work evolved over the years, it may be useful to compare this work with that of his very last building, villa Ottolenghi Bardolino, which was near completion at the time of his sudden death in 1978. Upon completion of villa Veritti over the next ten years, without ever letting up on his work on renovation and layouts, Scarpa accepted some highly challenging commissions which were to make the most of his formal skills, working on the Carlo Felice Theatre in Genoa as well as another theatre in Vicenza. Towards the end of this decade, in 1969, Rina Brion commissioned Carlo Scarpa to build the Brion Mausoleum in San Vito d’Altivole (Treviso), a piece he continued to work on right up until the moment of his death. Nevertheless, even though he was totally absorbed by work on this mausoleum, plenty of other episodes can offer some insight into the final years of his career. As work on the San Vito d’Altivole Mausoleum began to lessen in 1973, Carlo Scarpa started building the new headquarters for the Banca Popolare di Verona. He drew up plans that were surprisingly different from the work he carried out simultaneously on the villa Ottolenghi. However, the plans Carlo Scarpa drew up, at different times, for a monument in Brescia’s Piazza della Loggia commemorating victims of the terrorist attack on May 28th, 1974, make a sharp contrast to the work he carried out in Verona, almost as if there is a certain hesitation after so many mannered excesses. The same Pietas that informs his designs for the Piazza Della Loggia can also be seen in the presence of the water that flows through the Brion Mausoleum, almost as if to give a concrete manifestation of pity in this twentieth-century work of art. Carlo Scarpa has put together a highly sophisticated collection of structures occupying the mausoleum’s L-shaped space stretching across both sides of the old San Vito d’Altivole cemetery. A myriad of different forms and an equally large number of different pieces, all of which are separate and yet inextricably linked to form a chain that seems to offer no promise of continuity, arising out of these are those whose only justification for being there is to bear the warning “si vis vitam, para mortem,” [if you wish to experience life prepare for death] as if to tell a tale that suggests the circle of time, joining together the commemoration of the dead with a celebration of life. At the entrance of the Brion Mausoleum stand the “propylaea,” followed by a cloister that ends by a small chapel, with an arcosolium bearing the family sarcophagi, the central pavilion, held in place on broken cast iron supports, stands over a mirror-shaped stretch of water and occupies one end of the family’s burial space. The musical sound of the walkways, teamed with the luminosity of these harmoniously blended spaces, shows how, in keeping with his strong sense of vision, Carlo Scarpa could make the most of all his many skills to come up with this truly magnificent space. As well as an outstanding commitment to architectural work, with the many projects we have already seen punctuating his career, Carlo Scarpa also made many equally important forays into the world of applied arts. Between 1926 and 1931, he worked for the Murano glassmakers Cappellin, later taking what he had learned with him when he went to work for the glassmakers Venini from 1933 until the 1950s. The story of how he came to work on furniture design is different, however, and began with the furniture he designed to replace lost furnishings during his renovation of Cà Foscari. The later mass-produced furniture started differently, given that many pieces were originally one-off designs “made to measure.” Industrial manufacturing using these designs as prototypes came into being thanks to the continuity afforded him by Dino Gavina, who, as well as this, also invited Carlo Scarpa to become president of the company Gavina SpA, later to become SIMON, a company Gavina founded eight years on, in partnership with Maria Simoncini (whose own name accounts for the choice of company name). Carlo Scarpa and Gavina forged a strong bond in 1968 as they began to put various models of his into production for Simon, such as the “Doge” table, which also formed the basis for the “Sarpi” and “Florian” tables. In the early seventies, other tables that followed included “Valmarana,” “Quatour,” and “Orseolo.” While in 1974, they added a couch and armchair, “Cornaro,” to the collection and the “Toledo” bed...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Velvet, Foam, Chenille, Wood

Italian Rococo Revival Style Settee or Sofa with Heraldic Motif in Black & Beige
Located in Plainview, NY
19th-early 20th century settee / canape or loveseat in Rococo style having a fine Fabric. This is simply the finest find of wonderfully covered and carved oversized settee...
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Early 20th Century European Rococo Sofas

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Fabric, Wood

Ligne Roset by Michel Ducaroy Togo Red 3-Seater Sofa, Set of 2
Located in London, GB
The iconic Togo sofa, originally designed by Michel Ducaroy for Ligne Roset in 1973 has become a design Classic. This two-piece set can be configured into one large sofa or used a...
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1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

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Fabric

Hannah & Morrison for Knoll Grey Sling Sofa, 1970s
Located in London, GB
Designed by Bruce Hannah and Andrew Ivar Morrison for Knoll, this Sling sofa is a fantastic example of 1970s design. Inspired by sail boats, the Sling sofa features an industrial ...
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1970s Italian Vintage Sofas

Materials

Fabric

Italian Rococo Revival Style Settee or Sofa, Black and Beige Upholstery, a Pair
Located in Plainview, NY
19th-early 20th century settees / canapes or loveseats in Rococo style having a fine Fabric. This is simply the finest pair of wonderfully covered and carved oversized settees...
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Early 20th Century European Rococo Sofas

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Fabric, Wood

1970s Mario Bellini 5-Piece Bambole Sofa Set for B&B Italia
Located in Grand Cayman, KY
Discover the timeless Organic Modern elegance of the original 1970s Le Bambole Italian sofa set with beige woven wool upholstery in superb condition. A Mid-Century Modern Italian masterpiece by the renowned Italian designer Mario Bellini and manufactured by B&B Italia. It was an instant success on launch in 1971. Today, it commands an extreme desirability as it's timeless playful aesthetic fits so well with both period and contemporary interiors. This vintage collection combines luxurious comfort, captivating aesthetics, and a rich history. Crafted with utmost precision, the set consists of three armchairs, one corner armchair, and one ottoman...
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1970s Italian Organic Modern Vintage Sofas

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Wool, Upholstery

Ligne Roset by Michel Ducaroy Togo Pink Modular Sofa and Footstool, Set of 5
Located in London, GB
The iconic Togo sofa, originally designed by Michel Ducaroy for Ligne Roset in 1973 has become a design Classic. This four-piece modular set is incredibly versatile and can be con...
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1970s French Vintage Sofas

Materials

Fabric

Mid-Century Modern Parsons Style Sectional Sofa after Milo Baughman
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A vintage parsons 3 piece sectional from the 1970's. It features a boxy clean line design with its original sage tweed upholstery. Overall depth is 37 inches. Recovering is recommended.
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1970s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

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Fabric

1970s Attributed to George Smith Velvet Jack Larsen Style Sofa on Castors
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
The beautiful rare sofa is statement piece which is also extremely comfortable and packed with personality! Just look at the gorgeous lines and curves on this beauty! Bright and vibr...
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1970s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

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Velvet, Wood, Upholstery

Mario Bellini "Le Bambole" Sofa for B&B Italia, Faux-Fur, 1971, Set of 2
Located in Lonigo, Veneto
Mario Bellini “Le Bambole” two-seater sofa for B&B Italia, Mongolian faux-fur, Italy, 1971, set of two. This is a timeless Postmodern design icon. The starting point was a shopping ...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Iron

Mario Bellini "Camaleonda" Sofa for B&B Italia, Brown Mohair, 1970, Set of 5
Located in Lonigo, Veneto
Mario Bellini "Camaleonda" modular sofa for B&B Italia, brown mohair, Italy, 1970, five elements. "Camaleonda" is an icon, rediscovered. First designed in 1970 by Mario Bellini, it ...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

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Metal

Three Seater Pierre Cardin Modular Sofa in black lacquer and silk, France 1970s
Located in Renens, CH
Pierre Cardin, a trailblazing fashion designer known for his innovative and unconventional approach, extended his creative vision into the realm of furniture design. Pierre Cardin's ...
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1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Brass

Klaus Uredat ‘Corbi’ Sofa for COR, Germany – 1969 in New Bouclé Upholstery
Located in Pijnacker, Zuid-Holland
Rare ‘Corbi’ modular sectional sofa by Klaus Uredat for COR, Germany – circa 1972. The Corbi sofa consists of sections with roll cushions. It can be used a...
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1970s German Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

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Wool, Bouclé, Cotton

Ligne Roset by Michel Ducaroy Togo Pink Corner Modular Sofa, Set of 3
Located in London, GB
The iconic Togo sofa, originally designed by Michel Ducaroy for Ligne Roset in 1973 has become a design Classic. This three-piece modular set is incredibly versatile and can be conf...
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1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

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Fabric

Art Deco Sofa with Lounge Chairs, 1920, France
Located in Budapest, HU
Marvelous, high end design, authentic 1920’s Art Deco Sofa with walnut wood display cabinets and a pair of matching Lounge Chairs originating from ...
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1920s French Art Deco Vintage Sofas

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Copper

Gianfranco Frattini Beige Wool Bouclé Sesann Two-Seater Sofa for Cassina, 1972
Located in Vicenza, IT
Sesann two-seater sofa, designed by Gianfranco Frattini in 1970 and produced by the Italian manufacturer Cassina. It features wool bouclé upholstery and a chrome tubular cage as s...
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1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Sofas

Materials

Chrome

Anfibio, natural leather sofa by Alessandro Becchi for Giovannetti, Italy 1970s
Located in Padova, IT
3 seater sofa, day bed Anfibio designed by Alessandro Becchi and produced by Giovannnetti in 1970s. Designed in 1970, the Anfibio sofa bed has been described by critics around the wo...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

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Leather

Alessandro Becchi Black Leather Anfibio Three Seater Sofa for Giovannetti, 1972
Located in Vicenza, IT
Anfibio sofa-bed by Alessandro Becchi for Giovannetti, 1972. Fully restored and upholstered with high-quality black Italian natural leather. Mattress upholstered with soft sheepski...
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1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Sofas

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Leather, Sheepskin, Cotton, Foam

De Sede Iconic "Non Stop Sofa" in Full Grain Leather 1970s
Located in New York, NY
Iconic "Non Stop Sofa", model DS600, with 17 sections in full grain leather, by Ueli Berger, Elenora Peduzzi-Riva, Heinz Ulrich and Klaus Vogt for De Sede, Switzerland 1970’s. The le...
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1970s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Leather, Wood, Foam

Anfibio Sofa by Alessandro Becchi for Giovannetti Collezioni
Located in Porto, PT
Anfibio Sofa by Alessandro Becchi for Giovannetti Collezioni 1970s, Italy. This sofa can be anything you need. It can be transformed...
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1970s Italian Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Leather, Foam

Antique Deep Buttoned Leather Chesterfield Sofa
Located in London, GB
A magnificent antique deep buttoned leather Chesterfield sofa. This was made in England, we would date it to around the 1920’s. It is of outstanding quality, this is extremely well ...
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1920s British Victorian Vintage Sofas

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Leather, Wood

De Sede ‘DS-15’ Modular Sofa in Patinated Cognac Leather
Located in Waalwijk, NL
De Sede, 'DS-15' sectional sofa, patinated leather, Switzerland, 1970s. This high-quality sectional sofa designed by De Sede in the 1970s contains six regular elements and one corne...
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1970s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Leather

Vladimir Kagan Postmodern Lucite Sofa in Mohair, 1970s
Located in Coronado, CA
This uncommon 3-seat sofa is, quite simply, the bee's knees. Constructed of a solid wood frame with thick lucite arms and legs and brass accents, this sofa is the epitome of chic. Wh...
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1970s American Post-Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Mohair, Lucite

Mario Bellini White Velvet Camaleonda Sofa for B&B Italia, 1972, Set Of 2
Located in Vicenza, IT
“Camaleonda” sofa, in white velvet upholstery, designed by Mario Bellini and manufactured by B&B Italia in 1972. Fully restored and reupholstered in Italy. The sofa is very comfort...
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1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Sofas

Materials

Chenille, Velvet, Foam

Tito Agnoli Original fabric sofa bed for Cinova Mod. 711
Located in Milano, IT
At the height of the Seventies, in an era of innovation and avant-garde design, a sofa was born that remains a testimony to the genius of Tito Agnoli and the craftsmanship of the Cin...
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1970s Italian Space Age Vintage Sofas

Materials

Metal

Low Profile Sofa in Patterned Chenille
Located in Los Angeles, CA
W100 D35 H26 SW78 SD24 SH15 AH19 Fully restored vintage sofa. Item sits low and offers ample seating depth. Item sits on hidden casters. Original upholstery tufting was replicated a...
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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Chenille

3-Section Channeled Curved Corner Sofa, France, 1970s
Located in Chicago, IL
A three-section curved sofa featuring ribbed detailing and a sculptural shape reminiscent of designs by Michel Ducaroy. Low slung, ultra comfy and ready for a kitchen banquette, livi...
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1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Sofas

Materials

Textile, Foam

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Black leather, silk velvet cushions, breathable bouclé fabric — when shopping for antique, new or vintage sofas, today’s couch connoisseurs have much to choose from in terms of style and shape. But it wasn’t always thus. 

The sofa is typically defined as a long upholstered seat that features a back and arms and is intended for two or more people. While the term “couch” comes from the Old French couche, meaning to lie down, and sofa has Eastern origins, both are forms of divan, a Turkish word that means an elongated cushioned seat. No matter how you spell it, sofa just means comfort, at least it does today.

In the early days of sofa design, upholstery consisted of horsehair or dried moss. Sofas that originated in countries such as France during the 17th century were more integral to decor than they were to comfort. Like most Baroque furnishings from the region, they frequently comprised heavy, gilded mahogany frames and were upholstered in floral Beauvais tapestry. Today, options abound when it comes to style and material, with authentic leather offerings and classy steel settees. Plush, velvet chesterfields represent the platonic ideal of coziness

Vladimir Kagan’s iconic sofa designs, such as the Crescent and the Serpentine — which, like the sectional sofas of the 1960s created by furniture makers such as Harvey Probber, are quite popular among mid-century modern furniture enthusiasts — showcase the spectrum of style available to modern consumers. Those looking to make a statement can turn to Studio 65’s lip-shaped Bocca sofa, which was inspired by the work of Salvador Dalí. Elsewhere, the furniture of the 1970s evokes an era when experimentation ruled, or at least provided a reason to break the rules. Just about every area of society felt a sudden urge to be wayward, to push boundaries — and buttons. Vintage leather sofas of that decade are characterized by a rare blending of the showy and organic.

With so many options, it’s important to explore and find the perfect furniture for your space. Paying attention to the lines of the cushions as well as the flow from the backrest into the arms is crucial to identifying a cohesive new piece for your home or office.

Fortunately, with styles from every era — and even round sofas — there’s a luxurious piece for every space. Deck out your living room with an Art Deco lounge or go retro with a nostalgic '80s design. No matter your sitting vision, the right piece is waiting for you in the expansive collection of unique sofas on 1stDibs.

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