Mid-20th Century Dressers

Designer : Gilbert Rohde Model ; Dresser 4041 Honeymoon Furniture for Young America, Maker : Kroehler Exhibited : 'America at Home' at the New York World's Fair 1940. Created by Gilbert Rohde, 1940's foremost furniture designer, expressly to demonstrate modern living displayed in the 'America at Home' building at the New York World's Fair 1940. Honeymoon furniture by Kroehler is outstanding in contemporary furniture design. Notice its space saving compactness, its sturdiness, its freedom from dirt catching corners. Honeymoon furniture offers comfort, convenience and economy never before possible in the small home or apartment The use of two different coloured woods to create a two-tone effect is very striking and complements the simple form. This unusual chest of drawers is a signature piece that injects character into any interior. The raised sides sit proud of the top elevating the chest creating an elegant tray effect. The front is fitted with three drawers with original wooden knobs in contrasting dark brown laurel. The sides have a projecting section of contrasting dark brown laurel at the front which defines the form. Inverted triangular feet. "Kroehler Made" metal tag. Designer unknown. Kroehler In 1902, Peter E. Kroehler bought the Naper ville Lounge Co., a maker of wooden lounge chairs and upholstered furniture. Kroehler built a new factory in Naperville in 1913 after the original facility was destroyed by a tornado. Soon thereafter, he renamed the company Kroehler Manufacturing Co. This enterprise soon operated across the country and employed several hundred men and women in the Chicago area. By the middle of the 1940s, with over $20 million in annual sales, Kroehler was the second-largest furniture maker in the United States. During the 1960s, when the company employed close to 8,000 people around the country, annual revenues passed $100 million. The company struggled during the 1970s, closing its historic Naperville factory in 1978 and ending its operations in the area. In 1981 Kroehler was acquired by the ATR Group of Northbrook, which put the company up for sale. By the early 2000s, furniture was still manufactured under the Kroehler name by two unrelated companies, one in North Carolina and the other in Ontario, Canada. Gilbert Rhode : American, 1894 - 1944 Gilbert Rohde (1894-1944) is best known for helping to create the modern design at Herman Miller Inc. Gilbert Rohde furniture design was focused on mass production and bringing modern products to the greatest number of consumers. He is also credited with designing the first examples of biomorphic furniture in America-which would ultimately shape mid century modernism. US industrial designer, born in New York. He became familiar with cabinetmaking in his father's shop. He studied at the Art Students League and Grand Central School of Art in New York. Early work was as a drama and music critic, cartooninst, reporter, and furniture illustrator. He traveled to France and Germany in 1927 and was inspired by modernism. He opened his own office in New York in 1927, designing furniture and showrooms, and consulting with manufacturers like General Electric and Hudson Motor Car Company. In 1931 HeywoodWakefield Company introduced a compact armless leatherette side chair with bentwood rear legs designed by Rohde, which sold 250,000 over the next eight years. Rohde also developed a later version for the Herman Miller Furniture Company, which was sold dis-assembled and made by what Rohde called an "automobile type of assembly." By 1929 he had established a relationship with D.J. Depree, president of the Herman Miller Furniture Company in Zeeland, MI and prepared some designs for him. Dupree appointed him director of design there in 1932 as part of his decision to shift the company’s orientation from traditional to modern design. His first modern design for the company, a No. 2185 Group bedroom suite was shown at the Chicago Century of Progress. Also in 1932, Rohde exhibited his furniture designs in a "Design for Machine" exhibit in Philadelphia, along with designs of Russel Wright. The Herman Miller Clock...

Made in Italy, 1950s. This is a high-quality dresser that is made in walnut and features a quite thick glass top and brass handles and feet caps. It is a vintage piece, therefore it...

This small storage unit is made from black and white laminated plastic sheets. It features three useful and adjustable shelves with two sliding doors. The storage has been partially...

1960s Italian design black wooden and raspberry color nubuck chest of drawers composed of black wooden structure, nubuck half-moon shape handles, 3 drawers and chrome edging finish. ...

Italian chest of drawers, from the mid-20th century. Peculiar shape, original and avant-garde for that time period. A very basic design, but by far an stylish dresser. All veneere...

In birch and mahogany veneered with six drawers and brass handles. Available also the finely carved mirror. Measures: Width 155 cm, height cm 88, depth cm.55 Mirror cm 130 x 90. ...

With six drawers. Gray painted glass top.

Wooden chest of drawers or dresser, model No. 34 by Kai Kristiansen manufactured by Aksel Kjersgaard in Denmark. Stamped.

Chest of drawers in solid pine and leather handles, designed and made in Denmark. Great original condition.

20th-Century Richly Inlaid Two-Leaf Cabinet with Marble Top We present you this two-leaf cabinet, circa after 1945, stylized as Louis XV furniture. The corpus with cut corners is pl...

Vintage 1970s Spanish 2-door 4-drawer bamboo and formica low cabinet.

Fine Italian midcentury maple wood dressing table with six drawers and adjustable side mirror.

The design of this stunning dresser with mirror is attributed to Silvio Cavatorta in the 1950s. It's characterized by a catchy sculptural design of the cabinet and surmounted by a v...

Linear, square but very elegant, the commode has a very particular design also due to the fact that it is made with quality materials, walnut wood and polished brass. Body entirely ...

Exquisite refined Art Deco cabinet dresser by Crafts Cantu in walnut and burl walnut applied in excellent condition all original components, polished with...

In birch and mahogany veneered with six drawers and brass handles. Available also the finely carved mirror. Measures: Width 155 cm, height cm 88, depth cm.55 Mirror cm 130 x 90. ...

Metal coat racks or coat stands from black lacquered wire steel designed by Karl Fichtel and produced by Drahtwerke Erlau A.G.Aalen, Germany, circa 1955. Minimalist design from the 1950s, the wall mounted wardrobe...

Fine Italian Mid-Century maple wood dressing table with six drawers and adjustable side mirror.

Fine Italian Mid-Century maple wood dressing table with six drawers and adjustable side mirror.

Beautiful and elegant dresser both for its articulated movement and for the perfect shellac polishing. The brass finishes match his style perfectly. The chest of drawers is veneered...

This mid century modern vintage grey rattan coat hooks by Franco Albini and Franca Helg, Italy 1960s. We love the Italian midcentury era for its light...

Very very special for its design of this Vittorio e Plinio Dassi's chest of drawers, from the middle of the century. All veneered in walnut, with green lacquered glass top. Commode...

Guillerme et Chambron, waxed oak and veneer oak "Bouvine" cabinet. Edition Votre Maison, 1960-1970. Very good condition.

Art Deco dresser with six drawers and brass hardware, inlaid fluted board top. This commode an elegant look offer ample storage space, is in perfect vintage condition.

Danish teak dressing table with large mirror. The dressing table was made in the 1960s and has a nice elegant and slim design. The large mirror is ...

A stunning piece from the 1950s, this Italian birch wall console comes complete with its matching stool. Crafted with a wooden frame, the console features an upholstered back in a ri...

Fine dresser with four drawers mounted under a beautiful mirror. White Carrara marble top. Glass shelf and brass fixtures.      

Particular dresser with six drawers with a pyramidal design, refined with style. All also due to the choice of materials such as goatskin and brass. The dresser has a wooden body co...

An excellent Mid-Century Italian Tyrolean kitchen shelf or plate rack, with four drawers in massive blond walnut, wax polished. A very useful item for y...

Fine Italian midcentury maple wood dressing table with six drawers and adjustable side mirror.

Code FR89 Art Decò bedroom set Osvaldo Borsani manner -Atelier di Varedo- Beautiful single room Art Deco birch burl and massive walnut. Dresser-w...

In birch and mahogany veneered with six drawers and brass handles. Available also the finely carved mirror. Measures: Width 155 cm, height cm 88, depth cm.55 Mirror cm 130 x 90. ...

Elegant and unusual two-doored Art Deco Armoire from Czechia, circa 1930. The wood is plywood (beech) painted in a wonderful bookmatched Palisander veneer optic, a quite rare techni...

This original Italian Art Deco dressing table is entirely veneered with precious essences such as rosewood and bird's-eye maple, the co...

Solid maple and aluminum ring pulls. The drawer is in excellent condition.

A rare serving trolley designed by Bodil Kjaer for her apartment in 1959. Solid rosewood and rosewood veneer, bleu formica, on castors and stainless steel hot plat. Hidden box. Fully...

Pair of remarkable bedsides rosewood in the style of Paolo Buffa, 1950s.

Venetian 1930s Art Deco mirrored dresser, commode, in walnut sanitized and polished to wax. Measures cm: H 98 x W 120 x D 50.

Simple and elegant cerused oak bookcase, with a low bottom section, with sliding front doors opening onto shelving space, and a tall, slightly rec...

With six drawers . Gray painted glass top.

Geometric design chest of drawers 1950 very elegant and particular, geometric mahogany handles, grated wood, glass top often in gray, the top floor was made new because it was damaged.

Mid Century Modern vintage cloth hanger from walnut and brass Italy, 1960s. A stunning cloth hanger from walnut with brass elements wich is as elegant as...

Mid-Century small Renaissance Italian dresser in walnut restored polished to wax Measures cm: H 93, W 77, D 37.

Rare corner desk / vanity / storage unit in the manner of Frode Holm. Produced in Denmark.

Midcentury precious, refined and treated in detail three drawers with flap on top, from Cantù, in blonde hand carved walnut, Gio Ponti style. Excellent patina, polished to wax Measu...

Stylish Present Boy or Waiter, which can also be used as a Dressboy. This almost man-sized figure is entirely made of plexiglass, including the detachable arms. Base, hat and bow t...

Solid maple and aluminium ring pulls. The drawer is in good condition. Signed!

Mid-Century Modern Italian dresser sideboard , style designer Osvaldo Borsani, in burl walnut with mirror, glass top and ebonized legs with br...

Rosewood chest of drawer in rosewood.

Rare dresser Serena entirely realized in walnut wood, with two frontal doors and six drawers (four smaller on the high side and two bigger on the bottom side). Designed by Giovanni ...

Vintage Danish modern teak dresser, 1960s. Elegant wide and low Danish chest of drawers with three wide drawers with recessed pulls...

Alphons Loebenstein, a German designer, was the main designer for Meredew in the Mid-Century. Loebenstein played a key role in persuading Fred Hard, the company’s current head, to mo...

Art Deco limed oak bedroom dresser by Heals This very stylish bdresser has most fortunately survived in excellent condition, retaining its original chrome and green bakelite handles...

Mid century modern walnut dresser by Frantisek Jirak for Tatra nabytok. Made in the former Czechoslovakia during the 1960´s. The dresser has been part of the living set. The furnitur...

Italian Mid-Century Modern wood and black metal chest of drawers, 1960s. Wooden chest of drawers, with 10 drawers, arranged on two column...

1960s Fully Restored Arne Vodder Teak dressing table by Oelholm Moebelfabrik designed in the 1950´s. Elegant teak dressing-/vanity table with spilt legs, adjustable mirror and the...

Italian designer Vittorio Dassi's midcentury credenza is a true work of art. The piece features four beveled drawers, carefully crafted from maple and walnut root, that are embellish...

Chest of drawers by Hans J. Wegner, made in Denmark 1956. The body is made with teak, on oak runners. Fully restored condition.