1950s Shelves

Wabi Sabi; Rustic; Drinking Trough; France; 1950s; Mid-Century Modern; A rustic wabi-sabi wooden drinking trough made out of wood. The design reminds us...

Dimensions (Width x Depth x Height) ca. 82,5 x 40 / 50 x 203 cm Elevate your living space with this vintage mid-midcentury modern Poul Cadovius Royal System Wall Unit, a true masterpiece of Scandinavian design. Crafted by the iconic Danish designer Poul Cadovius in the 1950s, the Royal System is celebrated for its versatility, functionality, and timeless aesthetic. Crafted in solid teakwood, walnut and veneer this wall unit seamlessly blends into various interior styles. The unit features a combination of open shelves and a cabinet, providing ample storage space while maintaining a sleek and uncluttered appearance. The modular design allows for customization, making it adaptable to different room configurations and needs. This Vintage Poul Cadovius...

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French metal etagere in original turquoise paint; can be corner shelving or freestanding. Avantgarden Ltd. cultivates unexpected and exceptional l...

Large Pastoe Wall Unit .Design by Cees Braakman in the 1960s , from the so called ''Japan series '' consisting of 4 Wall Panels hanging on a wooden ra...

Dimensions (Width x Depth x Height) ca. 240 x 40 / 50 x 203 cm Elevate your living space with this vintage mid-midcentury modern Poul Cadovius Royal System Wall Unit, a true masterpiece of Scandinavian design. Crafted by the iconic Danish designer Poul Cadovius in the 1950s, the Royal System is celebrated for its versatility, functionality, and timeless aesthetic. Crafted in solid teak wood and veneer this wall unit seamlessly blends into various interior styles. The unit features a combination of open shelves that come in different depths, of one them working as desk, a closed cabinet box and a display case with two glasses shelfs that are not shown in the images, providing ample storage space while maintaining a sleek and uncluttered appearance. The modular design allows for customization, making it adaptable to different room configurations and needs. This Vintage Poul Cadovius Royal System...

Superb Large Poul Cadovius Royal Wall System 1958 Denmark . Stunning color . In a very good condition . Great looking set . Because all the 6 Cabinets are small in depth . This must ...

Original Danish Modern Mid Century Cado Wall Unit / Shelving System in hard to find light oak, c. 1960's. Great three bay unit consisting of seven shelves and one cabinet that can b...

For sale this original Poul Cadovius wall system .Two cabinets One with Three drawers .And one with folding door Desk cabinet . comes with 6 shelves . 3 Uprights and the hardware .V...

The piece embodies minimalist design principles, characterised by a clear shape and simplified form with subtle detailing. It is reduced to the minimum. Compared to most minimalist d...

Wall unit, teak, coated steel, brass, Europe, 1950s Both aesthetics and functionality comes into play in this bookcase; elegant in line and practical to use for any environment. Th...

Triangular perforated metal side table in the style of Mathieu Mategot, all original condition with a soft red and black finish, there is a distinctive patina to the finish giving it...

Dimensions (Width x Depth x Height) ca. 240 x 40 / 50 x 203 cm Elevate your living space with this vintage mid-midcentury modern Poul Cadovius Royal System Wall Unit, a true masterpiece of Scandinavian design. Crafted by the iconic Danish designer Poul Cadovius in the 1950s, the Royal System is celebrated for its versatility, functionality, and timeless aesthetic. Crafted in solid teak wood and veneer this wall unit seamlessly blends into various interior styles. The unit features a combination of open shelves that come in different depths, one of them working as desk, two closed cabinet boxes, a display case with two glas shelfs and one small chest of drawers providing ample storage space while maintaining a sleek and uncluttered appearance. The modular design allows for customization, making it adaptable to different room configurations and needs. This Vintage Poul Cadovius...

Modular Italian shelving String style, with integrated desk. It is composed of a black lacquered metal structure with brass details that supports the adjustable shelves, a storage mo...

Børge Mogensen for Fredericia Stolefabrik, wall systems model 291, oak, Denmark, design 1956 These well-constructed wall systems designed by Børge Mogensen feature clear lines and s...

Stunning and elegant Mid-Century Modern wall shelf 112B. Design by Alvar Aalto for Artek Finland. Striking Finnish design from the 1950s. Original bi...

Beautiful 3 bay Omni wall unit by goerge nelson. walnut with floor to ceiling aluminum uprights.

Single bay standing wall unit by Louis van Teeffelen for Wébé, Dutch design from the 1950s. Two organic uprights in original black lacquered limba wood, which don’t have to be wall m...

Vintage French Industrial Shelving built to last forever from heavy gauge steel to the thick solid French White Oak shelves. We're g...

This spice rack duo is irresistible. Fully thermo-lacquered by us in glossy lemon yellow, these spice racks can also be used as wall storage for small accessories in a bedroom or off...

Beautiful Elm shelf from the 1950s. Wonderful high-quality workmanship and an absolute favorite piece. The shelves are particularly durable and sturdy. Design: Kajsa & Nils Nisse St...

Beautiful Elm shelf from the 1950s. Wonderful high-quality workmanship and an absolute favorite piece. The shelves are particularly durable and sturdy. Design: Kajsa & Nils Nisse St...

Dimensions (Width x Depth x Height) ca. 82,5 x 40 / 50 x 203 cm Elevate your living space with this vintage mid-midcentury modern Poul Cadovius ...

The file rack created by Pierre Jeanneret serves as a sophisticated addition to every living space. Its well-proportioned shape, combined with the perfectly useful size of the shelve...

Very rare cabinet storage unit for living or bedroom by William Doezema for Mastercraft Originals from one of their earliest collections in the late 1950's. 16 separate pieces: four chests set in one long stand topped with 11 individual cabinets/cases/shelves sections. The order of placement of each section is changeable based on your preferences. Each piece is crafted from solid white ash with a transparent creamy finish called "driftwood". Some have solid brass cabinet hardware and curved elements made of solid brass flat bar set within door faces. Hidden pull-down desktop secretary...

Arts and Crafts Open Front Wall Hanging Yew Bookshelf This superb quality bookcase has 4 open shelves and a carved decoration along each side edge The bookcase is in good attractive...

Modernist magazine rack or side coffee table in metal, wood and glass, US 1950s The design is in the manner of Archie Kaplan.

Exclusive mid century wall unit made from wood and black metal legs. It consists of a lowboard with 4 drawers, 2 doors and on top of that we have a bar compartment and another two d...

Osvaldo Borsani for Tecno, wall-mounted wall unit, metal, white laminated wood, Italy, 1950s  This wall mounted shelving system was designed by Osvaldo Borsani. Its purpose was a co...

Very rare original pair of drawers made in 1958 exclusively for the hotel rooms of the SAS Royal Hotel in Copenhagen. Including the original stainless steel wall brackets. Museum pie...

A metal shelving unit from Czechia, produced circa 1950. At a height around three feet, this short shelf features three tiers of winged shelves, separated by thin cylindrical support...

Mid-Century Modern "Lb7" Bookcase by Franco Albini for Poggi, Italy, 1950s Height is adjustable

This type wall shelf by Alvar Aalto is very sought after. There is just not enough of them to go around. As one can see from the archive picture the shelf can be joined with a mirro...

Very nice Steel wire free standing storage rack 1950s Holland rare minimalism rack . Design by Tjerk Reijenga for Pilastro

A French modernist corner cabinet/shelving unit with four adjustable shelves. The cabinet is oak veneered while the shelves are solid.

Stunning and rare Mid-Century Modern free standing modular wall unit. Design by Louis van Teeffelen for WéBé. Striking Dutch design from the 1950s. This modular free standing wall un...

Swedish-made blonde Mid-Century Modern bookshelf pair with three floating shelves each designed by Edmond Spence for Walpole. Attractive joinery and a v...

Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern design teak bookcases set designed by Grete Jalk and produced by P. Jeppesens Møbelfabrik, movable vertical partition...

Midcentury TOMADO industrial shelving with yellow and blue shelves on black enameled metal wire risers. Designed by Jan van der Togt. The shelves rest on ...

1950’s Engineers Single Drawer Units – Twelve Drawers (1227) 1950’s Engineers Single Drawer Units – Twelve Drawers (1227). We recently cleared an engineering workshop in Northamptons...

This type wall shelf by Alvar Aalto is very sought after. There is just not enough of them around. As one can see from the archive picture the shelf can be joined with a mirror and ...

Pair of shelves model RY21 designed by Hans J. Wegner. Produced in Denmark by RY Møbler during the 1950s. Made from solid oiled oak. The back pieces have not been screwed through whi...

Pair of shelves model RY21 designed by Hans J. Wegner. Produced in Denmark by RY Møbler during the 1950s. Made from solid oiled oak. The back pieces have not been screwed through whi...

Set of nine shelves model RY21 designed by Hans J. Wegner. Produced in Denmark by RY Møbler during the 1950s. Made from solid oiled oak. The back pieces have not been screwed through...

LB7 bookcase, designed by Franco Albini and manufactured by Poggi in 1957. Modular bookstore composed by upholds, containers with flying and doors, shelve. The industrial standard for every product component allows permanent and different solutions, from the bearing structures to the elements. The structure does not need anchorages to the wall and can be placed in the middle of the space. This set is composed of 3 modules, ten shelves, and three containers. It is made of Rosewood, iron, and brass. Excellent vintage condition. Franco Albini was born in Robbiate in 1905, and after his childhood and part of his youth, he moved to Milan. He graduated at Politecnico of Milan, Faculty of Architecture, in 1929, and He collaborated for three years in Giò Ponti and Emilio Lancia’s office. He probably had his international contacts here, at The International Exposition of 1929 in Barcelona and Paris, where he visited le Corbusier’s office, as Franca Helg used to tell. Throughout these first three years, his works were undoubtedly related to XIXth Century. His meeting with Edoardo Persico marks an evident turnover towards rationalism and writers for “Casabella” magazine. Persico’s thoughtful and ironical comments on some of Albini’s drawings for office furniture caused him deep upsetting. “I spent days of real anxiety – tells Albini – I had to answer all questions. I had a long fever”. The new phase that the meeting provoked begins with opening his own first office at Via Panizza with Renato Camus and Giancarlo Palanti. The group of Architects starts taking care of social housing, participating in the competition for the Baracca neighborhood in 1932, and then realizing the Ifacp neighborhood: Fabio Filzi (1936/38), Gabriele D’Annunzio, and Ettore Ponti (1939). During those years, He also worked for his first private villa (Pestarini). It is mainly in the context of exhibitions that the Italian architect experiments the compromise between rigor and poetic fantasy that Pagano was talking about; He conceived all the elements that would become recurrent in all types of his work – Architecture, Interiors, Design. The 1933 opening of the new Triennale of Milano, in Palazzo dell’Arte, becomes an occasion to express the highly innovative character of rationalist thinking. In this place, to experiment with new materials and solutions, but most of all a “method”. Young rationalist architects cultivated the art of exhibiting as a communication lab, an open field to space solutions. Albini, with Giancarlo Palanti, sets the steel structure house (with R. Camus, G. Mazzoleni, G. Minoletti and coordination by G. Pagano) designing also its furniture. For the next Triennale in 1936, marked by Persico’s early death, Franco Albini, together with a group of young architects around Pagano, takes care of the exhibition of Dwelling, where he presented 3 types of lodgings. In the same year, Albini and Romano design the exhibition for Ancient Italian jewelry: vertical uprights, simple linear poles design space. This element is recurring in other works, like the Scipione exhibition (1941), Vanzetti stand (1942), and Olivetti shop in Paris (1956). The architectural space is readable through a grid, introducing a third dimension, the vertical one, with a sense of lightness and transparency. Upright is also used in design objects, such as the Veliero bookcase...

1950’s Glass Fronted Haberdashery Cabinet – Thirty Five Drawer 1950’s English Glass Fronted Haberdashery Cabinet – Thirty Five Drawer. Made principally in solid oak and ash this is a...

Hiort af Ornäs designed this type shelf in the 1950s. It is called the `Välipala hylly` in Finnish, and it has become a classic a long time ago. Actually, it has been taken again int...

Rare Scandinavian vintage wall-mounted bookcase in original good vintage condition. Beautiful, high quality modular wall shelf from the 1950s is made of teak with two wall mounted strips. The Danish shelving system...

This rustic bread cart is from the mid 20th Century. With a patina worn by years of daily use, this piece combines an industrial aesthetic with recollect...

Mid-Century Modern Large Wall Unit by Poul Cadovius for Royal System , 1950s

The Nuage (cloud in french) is a magical piece of design. We see a lightness, where all parts are arranged on a playful way, creating a dynamic balance between harmony and disharmony...

Guglielmo Pecorini, wall shelf unit, walnut, Italy, design 1954, production 1950s Adjustable unit consisting of a wall construction and two shelves. This piece is designed by Italia...

Pair of Green Leather Wall Shelves by Jacques Adnet

Mid-Century Modern Wooden Wall Unit by Georges Coslin, 1950s

Børge Mogensen for Fredericia Stolefabrik, wall unit, model BM 291, oak, Denmark, design 1956 This well-constructed wall system is designed by Børge Mogensen, featuring clear lines ...

Vintage set of shelves from the 1950s. Featuring four shelves in golden oak and three solid oak et steel supports. Well-preserved condition. steel original green paint.

Italian dark wood shelves bookcase with floor and ceiling uprights, designed by Franco Albini in 1956 for Poggi Pavia, shelves and container with wood veneer adjustable in height and...

1950’s Industrial Metal Storage Cabinet – With Large Strap Hinges 1950’s Industrial Metal Storage Cabinet – With Large Strap Hinges. Sourced from a steel foundry outside Manchester this well proportioned heavy duty cabinet...