Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
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
Mid- Century Modern Aldo Tura Brass & Lacquered Goatskin Bar Cart / Serving
By Aldo Tura
Located in Kennesaw, GA
This is an Italian mid-century modern brass and lacquered goatskin designed by Aldo Tura. Aldo worked almost exclusively with goatskin, and his brass hardware was often baroque in st...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
Mid century walnut and cane bar cart on casters by Jack Cartwright Founders
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Mid century walnut and cane bar cart on casters by Jack Cartwright Founders. All walnut bar cart with cane front cabinet doors and black laminate top. Th...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Cane, Laminate, Walnut
Horizon by Thomasville Mid Century Modern Bar Cart, circa 1960s
By Thomasville
Located in Boynton Beach, FL
Mid Century Modern bar cart made by Thomasville for their Horizon line. Sporting its original finish that has beautifully and naturally faded with time.
This bar cart has a large d...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Wood
Rare Marble & Brass Hidden Bar Coffee Table by Paul Michel, France, 1970s
By Paul Michel
Located in Izegem, VWV
A Paul Michel 1970s coffee table executed in white marble with brass trim. This combination in materials is rarely seen on these tables.
The luxurious marble top opens up smoothly t...
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Carrara Marble, Brass
Cylindrical Teak Drum Cabinet by R.S. Furniture of Montreal
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This round table features a revolving 360-degree free-spinning design that allows for cabinet storage inside this pedestal table. Warm teak grain with black top.
Please confirm locat...
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Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Teak, Laminate, Wood
20th Century Italian Narrow Polished Walnut Cocktail Bar - Vintage Cabinet
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A light-brown, vintage Mid-Century Modern Italian narrow cocktail bar with an elevated L-form top, made of hand crafted polished, partly veneered Walnut in good condition. The freestanding cabinet...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Metal, Brass
Mid-century modern italian dry bar floor lamp by Luigi Massoni, Italy, 1960
Located in Nicolosi, IT
Mid-Century Modern Italian Dry Bar floor lamp in Style of Luigi Massoni, Italy, 1960s
This stunning mid-century modern dry bar, designed in the style of Luigi Massoni in the 1960s, ...
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1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Plastic, Acrylic, Plexiglass, Wood
Bamboo Rattan Barrel Bar Cart Cabinet, Italy, 1960s
Located in Rome, IT
Barrel bar cart cabinet in bamboo and rattan, Italy, 1960s.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Formica, Bamboo, Wicker, Cane, Rattan
Pressed bamboo dry bar with stools, Italy, 1970s
Located in amstelveen, NL
Cocktail bar with bar stools, brass, pressed bamboo, smoked mirrored glass, and marble, Italy, 1970s
Unique Hollywood Regency cocktail bar. The counter contains two doors, 2 drawer...
Category
1970s European Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Marble, Brass
Extraordinary Surrealistic Bar 1980s with Glass Lens and Fish Decor Underworld.
By Hans Weyers
Located in Antwerp, BE
Large exceptional unique bar designed by light architect, Hans Weyers, Belgium. Extraordinary Surrealistic bar with glass lenses and fish decoration inside the bar the possibility to...
Category
1980s Belgian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Metal, Brass, Bronze
Italian Bar or Cart in Walnut, Venice Print and Light, Italy, 1950s Signed Sarti
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Roma, IT
Italian bar trolley or 1950s dry bar in lacquered walnut, bright white inside.
Attributable to Cesare Lacca
Outside there is a Venice press. The bar automatically switches on when...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
Gorgeous Gio Ponti Style Parchment and Rosewood Liquor Bar Sideboard
Located in Swedesboro, NJ
Wood. Parchment. 4 doors. Metal hardware. 53 3/8" h x 82 5/8" w x 21 1/4" d.
Condition
One door missing escutcheon. Some veneer loss. Scratches. Some chips in veneer. Tape residue on...
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1940s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Rosewood, Parchment Paper
Mediterranean Iron Wine Shelf / Rack
Located in Darmstadt, DE
Very nice wine rack in Mediterranean style. The shelf has space for 41 wine / champagne bottles. The door and the drawer in the bottom is made of braided bast.
The top of the shelf ...
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20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Iron
Mid-Century Modern Walnut Chippendale Style Italian Bar Cabinet, 1940s
Located in Puglia, Puglia
This bar cabinet, produced in the 1940s, is made in the Chippendale style, in walnut,
walnut and screen-printed glass.
" If you like it please make your offer and we will evaluate i...
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1940s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Crystal
Midcentury Modern solid Oak wood Hide-a-Bar cabinet with pull out tray and brass
Located in Hyderabad, TG
Suave is a hide-a-bar cabinet handcrafted entirely in American Oak wood with brass inlay and details. You can use it as a standalone piece of furniture for everyday living. But when ...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Indian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
Caesar Lacquer Bar Trolley, Year 1950
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Bastia Umbra, IT
Cesare Lacca bar cart, 1950s, Made in Italy.
Cart designed by Cesare Lacca in the 1950s, with glass tops and lacquered mahogany wood frame finished with brass edging.
Condition is ...
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
An Aldo Tura Parchment Bar Cabinet Dry Bar
By Aldo Tura
Located in London, GB
A dry bar cabinet in lacquered parchment and rosewood by Aldo Tura Italy.
An unusual model, slightly rarer than the others. The rectangular cabinet in lacquered Parchment, with the b...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
Mid-Century Aldo Tura Parchment Covered Pedestal Bar Light Up Mirrored Interior
By Aldo Tura
Located in Troy, MI
Circa 1960s pedestal style bar designed by Aldo Tura is in the form of a large stemmed goblet made of wood covered in goatskin parchment. The body of the bar is decorated all the way...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
Danish Modern Folding Dry Bar in Wengé by Dyrlund, 1960s.
By Dyrlund
Located in Asaa, DK
Danish Modern Folding Dry Bar in Wengé by Dyrlund, 1960s.
Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern rolling fold-up drinks cabinet made in Denmark in the 1960s.
This version of a captains bar...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Wenge
Arthur Umanoff Wine Rack
Located in La Teste De Buch, FR
Orange wrought iron wine rack by Arthur Umanoff.
It can hold up to 39 bottles and includes a woven basket type shelf and a laminated shelf to hold glasses, serve drinks or even showcase you favorite bottles and bar utensils...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Iron
Italian Coffee Table or Dry Bar in Walnut, Brass and Enameled Metal, 1970s
By Gervasoni
Located in Roma, IT
Marvelous cocktail bar table with hydraulic lift in walnut, brass and enameled metal. This charming and unique piece was produced in Italy during the 1970s.
Fully original and in f...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Metal, Brass
Mid Century Oak Bar / Credenza
Located in Esperance, NY
For sale is this very unique large bar or credenza. The piece is made out of Oak and the front is laminate.
Category
1960s Unknown Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Oak
Rare Model AT-34 Bar Cabinet, Hans J. Wegner, Andreas Tuck, 1960s
Located in Helsinki, Uusimaa
Rare model AT-34 bar cabinet/ dry bar, designed by Hans J. Wegner, manufactured by Andreas Tuck, 1960s. Teak with steel legs. Good vintage condition, patina consistent with age and u...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Steel
Midcentury Style Brass and Blu Murano Glass Bar Cabinet, 2020
Located in Rome, IT
Very fine handmade bar cabinet by a master artisan. Brass frame with handmade and hand-cut cobalt blue and white opaline Murano glass raised on sp...
Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Glass, Wood
Midcentury Scarlet Lacquered Bar Cabinet
Located in London, GB
A striking Italian Mid-Century scarlet lacquered bar cabinet, with four angled drawers, two lower compartments and the bar, mirrored inside with ...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
Italian Dray Bar - Vitrine
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Italian dry bar - vitrine base is wood and the side is inline fruit wood. The bar interior is surrounded by mosaic glass.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Art Glass, Wood
Fantastic Italian Design Cocktail Bar Set 1970' in the Manner of Willy Rizzo
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Rome, IT
Striking Willy Rizzo style Italian Design burl birch wood and gilt brass Cocktail bar set .
Hollywood Regency cocktail bar includes a counter ele...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Wood
Vintage MC Rare Bar Cabinet Station by John Keal for Brown Saltman
Located in San Diego, CA
Incredible and intelligent design by John Keal for Brown Saltman. This incredible vintage cabinet from the late 1950s transcends decades to amaze with intelligent design and purpose. On the outside, the cabinet is minimal and clean lined with two long sculpted decorative wood bars. Pull the decorative bars up until they lock, carefully let them fall forward and voila! It’s a table and built in bar...
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1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Composition
Signed Paul Evans Cityscape Bar Cart 'PE 200' Series for Directional
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Beautiful signed Mid-Century Modern bar cabinet by Paul Evans for Directional. A wonderful patchwork design with a flip top and two cabinet doors below. Sleek case piece that looks g...
Category
1960s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Chrome
Vintage Mastercraft Brass and White Lacquered Wood Dry Bar or Cabinet Restored
By Mastercraft
Located in North Miami, FL
This fantastic vintage standing Mastercraft dry bar and or cabinet has a tempered flip top that extends for serving. It is hinged for opening both sides or one. The original Mastercr...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
Bamboo bar cart, 1950s
Located in Bastia Umbra, IT
Bamboo bar cart, 1950s, Made in Italy.
Food bar cart with structure made of bamboo.
Condition is perfect, some slight signs of use due to time.
The price of shipping is for the It...
Category
1950s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Bamboo
Henkel Harris Virginia Galleries Mahogany Two-Tier Drop-Leaf Rolling Server
Located in Germantown, MD
A mid Century Modern Henkel Harris Virginia Galleries Mahogany Two-Tier Drop-Leaf Rolling bar cart, buffet server.Good vintage condition. Measures 38" in width with leaves close, 18"...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Mahogany
Osvaldo Borsani Mid-Century Modern Italian Walnut and Maple Sideboard, 1950s
Located in Puglia, Puglia
This bar sideboard was produced by Arredamenti Borsani Varedo, in Italy in the 1950s. The sideboard is in walnut and maple, mirrors and glass. The particularity is the overlying glas...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Glass, Mirror, Maple, Walnut
Vintage Bar Cabinet 1970s Bamboo Boho MCM
Located in Lake Worth, FL
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Vintage 1970s Bamboo Rattan Boho MCM Bar Cabinet...
Category
1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan, Wood
Wood Bar by Englander & Bonta, Argentina, circa 1950
Located in Buenos Aires, Buenos Aires
Wood bar by Englander & Bonta, Argentina, Buenos Aires, circa 1950.
With glass and mirror inside.
Category
1950s Argentine Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Glass, Mirror, Wood
Mid century Danish Dry Bar by Kurt Ostervig
Located in Paddock Wood Tonbridge, GB
DRY BAR BY KURT OSTERVIG
A Mid Century Dry bar designed by Kurt Østervig in the early 1960's with tambour doors to reveal mirrored interior for bottles and glasses and drawers and a ...
Category
1960s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Rosewood
Pierre Cardin Chocolate Color Bar Cabinet on Castors
Located in Chicago, IL
Pierre Cardin bar cabinet on castors.
Some vintage wear. The chrome band on one end has some scuff scratches (shown in picture). Otherwise pretty c...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Chrome
Caesar Lacquer Bar Trolley, Year 1950
By Cesare Lacca
Located in Bastia Umbra, IT
Cesare Lacca bar cart, 1950s, Made in Italy.
Cart designed by Cesare Lacca in the 1950s, with glass tops and lacquered mahogany wood frame finished with brass edging.
Condition is ...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
Paolo Buffa Mid-Century Modern Italian Mahogany and Walnut Bar Cabinet, 1950s
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Superb bar cabinet designed by the famous architect Paolo Buffa, in walnut, mahogany and brass finishes, the inside of the cabinet is covered with decorated mirror squares, the top o...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
Paolo Buffa Italian Mid-Century Parchment Sideboard
By Paolo Buffa
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Mid-Century (1930s) sideboard / bar cabinet with parchment veneer & a drop front with wood inlaid cupid figures in chariots & a glass fi...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Glass, Parchment Paper
Osvaldo Borsani Mid-Century Modern Italian Shop Counter Cash Desk, 1950s
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Beautiful and original shop cash desk in the style of Osvaldo Borsani in the 1950s, original VITREX glass top.
Note the particularity of the designer and the...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Glass, Maple, Walnut
Vintage Italian Rattan Tiki Bar
Located in Winter Park, FL
A Mid-Century Modern rattan tiki bar from Italy. Good quality and craftsmanship, with sturdy frame and bent vertical rattan reeds tacked to the front. Tiered countertops with faux wo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Bamboo, Rattan, Plastic
Italy 1950s Cesare Lacca Attributed Dry Bar Cart, Laquered Walnut & Burl Walnut
Located in Vigonza, Padua
A Brugnoli Mobili Cantù Dry Bar Cart, laquered walnut in mahogany color, brass thread & burl walnut veneered; cristal top . Lighted interior compartment with a washable plastic-coat...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Burl, Walnut
Mid-Century Modern Oval Bar Cabinet
Located in Westwood, NJ
A Mid-Century Modern-Style oval bar cabinet with a striking sandstone top. The elegant top is trimmed with crisscrossing gold finish handles. This bea...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Asian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Marble, Metal
Mid-Century Fold-Out Bar Cabinet
Located in Pompano Beach, FL
Mid-Century fold out bar cabinet that opens with two doors in the front and two-fold out pieces on the top. Made in walnut with an off-white formica.
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Walnut
Mid Century Modern Tessellated Stone Chest Small Trunk on Base by Maitland Smith
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Mini hope chest box on chrome base by Maitland Smith with fine brass inlay strip.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Marble, Chrome
Italian bar cabinet Dry Bar “Tambor”, after Umberto Mascagni
Located in Valladolid, ES
Amazing and refined Italian designer bar cabinet, 1950s / 60s. Following the style of Umberto Mascagni, an Italian designer who worked for Harrods in the 1950s, this small curved bar...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Metal
King Size Dry bar Green Murano Glass & Brass Gio Ponti-inspired Made in Italy JF
By Gio Ponti
Located in Guazzora, IT
The King Dry Bar by JustFurnituress, inspired by Gio Ponti's design style, combines innovative aesthetics with exceptional craftsmanship. As both designer and manufacturer, JustFurni...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
1950s Italian Cherrywood Bar Cabinet with Brass Accents and Handcrafted Inlay
Located in Bagnolo Mella, Brescia
This beautiful 1950s bar cabinet, crafted from cherrywood, showcases the exquisite craftsmanship of artisanal production from Cantù, Italy. The cabinet features elegant brass details, including drawer handles, legs, and a sleek upper trim above the top surface, adding a touch of sophistication to its mid-century modern design.
The central focus is the delicately hand-inlaid maple leaf motif, artistically decorating the large front door, which opens vertically to reveal a spacious interior. This piece perfectly blends functionality with style, making it an ideal addition to any living or dining room. With its refined aesthetic and practical storage, it stands as a testament to the quality and elegance of Italian furniture design from the 1950s.
Note: Originally designed to be wall-mounted, this stunning 1950s Italian...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Wood, Cherry, Walnut
20th Century Italian Modern Rosewood Cocktail Bar Cabinet by Osvaldo Borsani
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A vintage Mid-Century modern Italian two-part cocktail bar cabinet with an elevated top made of hand crafted polished Rosewood and Walnut, designed most likely by Osvaldo Borsani in ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Metal, Brass
Spanish Bamboo Rattan & Woven Wicker Bar Cart or Dry Bar
Located in Barcelona, ES
Eye-catching rattan and bamboo drinks table / Dry bar, Spain 1960s.
Two shelves with wicker cane tops.
The structure if this bar cart is nicely constructed with bamboo and rattan can...
Category
20th Century Spanish Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Wire
Amazing Mid-Century Italian Bar Cabinet 1940' Attributed to Osvaldo Borsani
Located in Rome, IT
Elegant and unusual bar cabinet.
Decorated front door with geometrical inlaid. Door panels inside with mosaic mirror and brass and glass shelfs. Support w...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Wood
Carrello Bar AR1, Alfred Roth, MisuraEmme
By Misura Emme
Located in Milano, Lombardia
Il Carrello Bar AR1 disegnato da Alfred Roth per MisuraEmme è un raffinato esempio di design funzionale e sofisticato. Realizzato con cura e attenzione ai dettagli, questo carrello b...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Metal, Steel
Mid-Century Bar Counter by Luigi Scremin (Attr.), Italy 1950s
Located in Utrecht, NL
The 20th century witnessed the rise of exceptional Italian furniture designers, who left an indelible mark in the world of interior design. Their innovative creations and visionary a...
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
Mid Century Arthur Umanoff 1950s Iron and Leather Wine Rack
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
Arthur Umanoff for Shaver Howard 1950s iron and leather strap wine rack. Leather straps are solid.
Holds 8 Bottles of wine.
Measures: Height: 19 in
Width: 10 in
Depth: 9.5 in.
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Iron
French Vintage Dry Bar Counter Spanish Style Pine Rope & Studs Two Stools c 1960
Located in Labrit, Landes
Midcentury counter dry bar in the spanish style
French, circa 1960
Iron studs, rope and massive pine
Good condition, scratches on the counter (please see last photo)
Height of the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Wrought Iron
Danish Modern Teak Bar Cart with Removable Tray by Johannes Andersen / Silkeborg
Located in San Diego, CA
Super rare and extremely desirable Danish modern teak bar cart with removable tray & cane shelf by Johannes Andersen for CFC Silkeborg circa 1950s. The cart has a removable teak shel...
Category
Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Teak, Cane
Light Oak Modern Media Cabinet
Located in Westwood, NJ
Light oak Modern media cabinet, in our brushed oak Gowan finish with a subtle chevron parquetry detail on the doors. The split interior with an ad...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Vietnamese Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Metal
Vintage Mastercraft Brass and White Lacquered Wood Dry Bar or Cabinet Restored
By Mastercraft
Located in North Miami, FL
This fantastic vintage standing Mastercraft dry bar and or cabinet has a tempered flip top that extends for serving. It is hinged for opening both sides or one. The original Mastercr...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
Midcentury Iron Wine Rack
Located in San Diego, CA
Great vintage midcentury wine rack that would work with any style of interior design, decor.
Wine rack holds 39 bottles and is in excellent cond...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Metal
Tall Mid Century Italian Bar Cabinet with Yellow Murano Glass Inserts
Located in Troy, MI
Found in Italy, this walnut bar cabinet dates from the 1950s. This cabinet has two locking hinged doors with yellow glass inserts and brass hardware. Tapered legs, interior features ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
Space Age Dry Bar Cart Stainless Steel and Glass, Italy, 1970s
Located in SAINT-OUEN, FR
Dry bar cart cabinet in stainless steel, metal chrome, smoke glass. interior black lacquered, the bar is mounted on wheels. Famous design like Mario Sabo...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Metal, Chrome, Stainless Steel
Teak swivel bar cabinet, C1960's
Located in Bastia Umbra, IT
Teak swivel bar cabinet, Made in Italy, 1960s.
Teak swivel bar cabinet with sliding shutter and four-spoke foot with casters.
It is all ORIGINAL and retains the patina of time.
Ma...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Teak
Dry bar by Aldo Tura, Italy 1960s
By Aldo Tura
Located in HAARLEM, NL
Calice luminated dry bar by Aldo Tura, Italy 1960s. This dry bar made of lacquered goatskin, which is typical for Aldo Tura, is a definate conversation piece. With it’s medieval scen...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Goatskin, Glass, Mirror
Vittorio Dassi Sideboard Bar Cabinet
Located in Hanover, MA
SATURDAY SALE
1950s Italian extra large sideboard bar cabinet by Vittorio Dassi in beautifully executed herringbone pattern rosewood and mahogany suppo...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Mahogany, Sycamore, Glass, Rosewood
Vladimir Kagan Burl Wood Wall Unit Cabinet Sideboard
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Very nice Mid-Century Modern burl wood liquor cabinet bar, display cabinet or sideboard by V. Kagan. Measures: 8' Tall.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Midcentury Cubic Chromed Steel, Wood and Glass Dry Bar, Italy 1970s
By Willy Rizzo
Located in Roma, IT
Unique midcentury cubic dry bar in lacquered ash wood, mirrored steel and glass dry bar with hidden wheels. This gorgeous Willy Rizzo style dry bar was produced in Italy during the 1970s.
The wheeled bar cart's four sides are in mirrored chromed steel, while the top is in dark smoked glass. It moves thanks to four hidden wheels, and the structure is veneered black lacquered oak.
A design masterpiece that will become a cult furniture element in a midcentury bar or living room.
Italian designer and photographer Willy Rizzo (1928-2013) first came to prominence in the 1960s as both a chronicler of and participant in La Dolce Vita, the glamorous, jet set lifestyle enjoyed by many international celebrities and socialites in the postwar era. While photography was Rizzo's first love, in the 1970s he developed a passion for interiors and launched a second successful career as a luxury furniture designer.
Rizzo was born in Naples in 1928 but moved to France early. After expressing an interest in photography at the age of 12, Rizzo's mother gifted him an Agfa Box camera; soon he was shooting portraits of his classmates at Paris's Istituto Statale Italiano Leonardo Da Vinci.
In the 1940s, Rizzo began his career as a photojournalist, working for several French publications, including Ciné Mondial, Point de Vue, and Image du Monde. In the aftermath of the Second World War, Rizzo notably covered the Nuremberg Trials and travelled to Tunisia for Point de Vue to photograph the conflict in North Africa, later published in Life Magazine. As his reputation grew, he was hired by France Dimanche to take portraits of the rich and famous at flashy events like the Cannes Film Festival. Rizzo's charm won the trust of royalty, dignitaries, and movie stars, allowing him to capture these public figures in unusually candid moments.
Hoping to advance his career further, Rizzo travelled to New York with Black Star Agency in 1947 to photograph American starlets. When he returned to Paris two years later, he was invited to join Jean Prouvost’s newest publication in colour, Paris Match, as head photographer—a position that he held for 20 years and, along the way, sparked a new culture of celebrity photographers who were as intriguing and fashionable as their subjects.
In 1959, he became the artistic director of Marie Claire and collaborated with other fashion magazines, such as Vogue.
Throughout his career, Rizzo photographed dozens of stars, including Brigitte Bardot, Maria Callas, Salvador Dalí, Marlene Dietrich, Jane Fonda, Gene Kelly, and Gregory Peck, as well as striking up close friendships with famous personalities like Coco Chanel, Christian Dior, and Jack Nicholson. In 1962, Rizzo famously captured some of the last moments of Marilyn Monroe’s life on film before tragically committing suicide a few weeks later.
In 1968, Rizzo married Italian actress Elsa Martinelli, and the pair relocated to Rome. It was here that Rizzo began his work in furniture design, starting with his newly-leased, run-down Roman apartment. Just for personal use (at first), Rizzo created a series one-of-a-kind pieces inspired by modernist icons, such as Mies van der Rohe and Le Corbusier. But as his glitterati friends—Rodolfo Parisi, Gigli Rizzi, Franco Rapetti, Salvador Dalí, Brigitte Bardot, and the like—became admirers of his work, Rizzo was flooded with design commissions.
Rizzo went on to furnish apartments for Italian aristocracy in the Palazzo Borghese and Palazzo Ruspoli that same year and quickly earned an international reputation as a designer to the rich and famous. In response to ever-growing demand, he launched his own Tivoli-based company dedicated to contemporary furniture design handmade in lux materials such as wood, marble, stainless steel, brass, and wild boar. Over time, his team of eight grew to 150, and he was able to open shops in France and throughout Europe, as well as in New York, Miami, and Los Angeles.
With an emphasis on clean lines and geometric forms, Rizzo's tables, chairs, and accessories combined contemporary shapes with traditional materials—in contrast to many of his contemporaries, like Ettore Sottsass and Vico Magistretti, who were popularizing plastic, foam, and other synthetics in furniture production. Rizzo's most successful designs are many low, box-like tables in granite, metal, glass, or burled wood, often embellished with brass or chrome accents or built-in liquor cabinets or trays. Two examples of his most celebrated designs include the Alveo Coffee Table (1970s) for Mario Sabot and the circular Yin Yang Coffee Table...
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1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Steel, Chrome, Metal
Brazilian Rosewood Dry Bar by Axel Christensen
Located in Berkeley, CA
Origin: Denmark
Designer: Axel Christensen
Manufacturer: ACO Møbler
Era: 1960s
Materials: Rosewood, Aluminum
Measurements: 47.5" wide x 18" deep x 54" tall
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
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Aluminum
Swedish Modern Bar Cabinet by Arne Wahl Iversen
Located in Berkeley, CA
Origin: Sweden
Designer: Arne Wahl Iversen
Manufacturer: IKEA
Era: 1959
Materials: Teak
Measurements: 25.5″ wide x 14″ deep x 23.75″ tall
Condition: In excellent original condition.
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Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
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Teak
Paul Laszlo for Brown Saltman Basket Weave Front Double Door Cabinet
Located in Hanover, MA
Paul Laszlo for Brown Saltman (signed) basket weave double door cabinet in American white oak newly refinished in dark walnut.
Originally this cabinet was blonde and contained GE Mu...
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1940s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Oak
Important Cerused Oak Sideboard by Vladimir Kagan for Kagan-Dreyfuss, Signed
Located in Los Angeles, CA
This important piece of design history was not only designed by Vladimir Kagan and handcrafted by Kagan-Dreyfuss in circa 1949 New York... this was also owned by Kagan himself and kept throughout his entire adult life (see provenance notes below).
Each of the two pieces (lower credenza and upper dry bar / hutch) are signed on the back with Kagan-Dreyfuss New York stamps. The expansive size provides exceptional storage and use options.
Kagan-Dreyfuss (Vladimir Kagan's partnership with Hugo Dreyfuss from circa 1950-1960) stamped pieces are amongst the most sought after by collectors and investors of art and design. Furniture with Kagan-Dreyfuss stamps are extremely hard to find and demand exceptional value, and this credenza with hutch is double stamped (one on each piece).
Featuring a cerused oak exterior, with tambour doors on the lower credenza, sculpted handles (which slide to reveal a keyhole, no key is present however can be rekeyed) on the upper hutch...
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1940s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
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Glass, Mirror, Formica, Oak
Mid-Century Modern Dry Bar, Mahogany, Zebra Wood, Onyx, Glass, Brass - Italy
Located in Girona, Girona
Important dry bar, solid wood and zebra wood veneer, "grissinis" decoration mahogany and solid bronze stands. Two doors with lightning system bar compartments. Back wooden panels wit...
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1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
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Onyx, Brass
Unique J.C. Mahey Black Lacquered Brass Bar Cabinet Counter 1970s
Located in Paris, IDF
A unique bar for a standout look. This rare piece was designed by Jean-Claude Mahey in the 1970s for Maison Romeo Paris, and displays all the trademark glam of the French seventies period. Brass and black lacquer are used in large, chunky blocks for a powerful impact, with nice curves on each side. From a distance, the piece seems to sparkle. There are 3 large storage spaces in the back, with enough room for a small fridge, ice machine...
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1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Dry Bars
Materials
Brass
Mid-century Modern dry bars for sale on 1stDibs.
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