Space Age Furniture
SPACE AGE STYLE
Vintage Space Age furniture captured post–World War II optimism with swooping shapes, bowed lines and experimentation with new materials including plastic and fiberglass.
From the launch of the Sputnik 1 satellite in 1957 to the landing of Apollo 11 astronauts on the moon in 1969, the space race between the Soviet Union and the United States propelled advancements in technology that transformed culture. Space Age design encompassed fashion, architecture, cars, furniture and objects for the home, bringing wonder and hope for the future into everyday life.
Coinciding with Pop art, Space Age style featured bold colors and forms. Eero Aarnio’s Ball chair, which debuted in 1966, used molded fiberglass for a capsule-like space while Verner Panton’s 1959 Panton chair was a single piece of molded plastic for a gravity-defying S shape. Red versions of Olivier Mourgue’s 1964 Djinn chair were futuristic enough to appear on the space station in Stanley Kubrick’s 1968 film 2001: A Space Odyssey. Today, Joe Colombo is revered as a master of modern Italian design thanks to the provocative modular furniture pieces he created, such as the Tube chair and the Elda armchair, both of which embody the future-forward spirit of the Space Age.
The Space Age spirit extended to home building too. The futuristic Case Study Houses, which were designed by the likes of Pierre Koenig, Charles and Ray Eames, Richard Neutra and Whitney R. Smith, are considered a high point of modernism and the Southern California lifestyle.
Sometimes the nods to space exploration were more literal, like moon and star motifs or the 1965 Eclisse lamp by Vico Magistretti that saw the mid-century Italian designer integrating a movable inner shade to “eclipse” the light source. Alongside the pioneering moon missions, JVC manufactured the Videosphere portable television reminiscent of the Apollo 11 space helmets.
Although the style faded in the 1970s — with the 1975 joining of the Apollo and Soyuz spacecrafts signaling a new era of cooperation and the global oil crisis impacting the availability of plastics — the era’s innovations influenced designers into the 21st century such as Zaha Hadid and Djivan Schapira.
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Style: Space Age
Creator: Artemide
1970 Vico Magistretti
Located in Perpignan, FR
Lampe de table originale Telegono de Vico Magistretti pour Artemide 1968.
En bon état d'origine.
Ce classique italien a un cadre jaune crème et un abat-jour mobile en orange qui ti...
Category
1970s French Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Original table lamp 'Mezzachimera' by Vico Magistretti for Artemid, 1970s
Located in Saarburg, RP
table lamp 'Mezzachimera' by Vico Magistretti for Artemide
The 1970s space-age style lounge floor lamp is a fascinating vintage piece that will give your room a retro-futuristic at...
Category
1970s European Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal
Artemide Nessino Giancarlo Mattioli transparent model Y2K design
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Masterpiece table lamp of Space Age design.Original was released from the 60s by Artemide. It is transparent model released only from the late 90s u...
Category
1990s Italian Space Age Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Nickel-Plated & Painted Metal, Glass 1960s "PI" Sconce by S. Mazza for Artemide
By Sergio Mazza, Artemide
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Wall lamp in matt nickel-plated brass. Reflector in aubergine coated aluminum. Frosted glass globe.
Very good condition: Normal nickel oxidation.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Nickel, Brass, Aluminum
Eclisse Table Lamp by Vico Magistretti for Artemide
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Eclisse Table Lamp by Vico Magistretti for Artemide, 1967.
This Eclipse table lamp designed by Vico Magistretti features a rotating inner white shade that eclipses the light source a...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal
Artemide Spyros Melamine Sculpture by Eleanor Peduzzi Riva, 1970s
Located in San Benedetto Del Tronto, IT
Iconic and ultra rare melamine sculpture Spyros by Artemide. Designed by Eleanor Peduzzi Riva in 1976 and conceived as a table ashtray, Spyros features a heavy black sphere that slid...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Artemide E-light red Y2K style design
Located in Shibuya-ku, Tokyo
Desk lamp with color half transparent body. It was released in late 90s by Artemide. It's obvious that it was influenced from first generation iMac released in 1997. Color is red. I...
Category
1990s Italian Space Age Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Transparent Glass Pair of Sconces by Artemide, 1970s, Italy
By Artemide
Located in Hagenbach, DE
Transparent glass pair of sconces by Artemide, 1970s, Italy.
Very nice high quality wall lamps.
Lamps are in very good vintage condition.
These lamps works with E27 standard light...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal
Italian space age Brown Floor lamp Oracolo by Gae Aulenti for Artemide, 1970s
By Artemide, Gae Aulenti
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian space age Brown Floor lamp Oracolo by Gae Aulenti for Artemide, 1970s
Floor lamp mod. Oracolo with spherical opaline glass diffuser. The cylindrical structure is in brown lac...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal, Steel
Nickel Plated Brass Omega pendant Lamp by Vico Magistretti for Artemide, 1960s
Located in Varese, Lombardia
This elegant pendant was designed in the 1960s by Vico Magistretti for Artemide.
It is made from a nickel-plated brass structure with 2 opaline glass shades. Its electrical system fe...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal, Nickel
Metal ‘Dania' Table Lamp by Dario Tognon and Studio Celli for Artemide, 1969
By Dario Tognon, Artemide
Located in Echt, NL
Impressive Dania table lamp in very good condition.
Designed by Dario Tognon and Studio Celli.
Manufactured by Artemide, After the introduction in 1969 Artemide produced the lamp only for a few years.
The sculptural and organic shape of the Dania lamp...
Category
20th Century Italian Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal, Enamel, Aluminum
Space age 'Pallade' table / floor lamp, Studio Tetrarch, Artemide, Italy 1968.
Located in Firenze, IT
Space Age floor / table lamp mod- 'Pallade'
designed by Studio Tetrarch (Enrico de Munari, Adelaide Bonatti, Silvio Bonatti, Carla eFderspiel)
Artemide, Italy, 1968
1st edition, i...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal
Artemide Bacco Table by Sergio Mazza, 1960s
By Sergio Mazza, Artemide
Located in San Benedetto Del Tronto, IT
Amazing and rare coffee table / mobile bar on wheels designed by Sergio Mazza in 1967 and produced by Artemide in Italy.
Bacco is made of molded ABS plastic, mounted on wheels, with...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Glass, Plastic
Italian space age Chandelier Aggregate by Mari Fassina for Artemide, 1970s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian space age Chandelier Aggregato by Enzo Mari and Giancarlo Fassina for Artemide, 1970s
Chandelier mod. Aggregato with conical plexiglass diffuser, externally aqua green and in...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal
Vicario armchair designed by Vico Magistretti for Artemide, Italy 1970s.
Located in Athens, Attiki
Vicario armchair designed by Vico Magistretti for Artemide, Italy 1970s.
In production from 1970 until the mid-70s.
Made of fiber glass, this armchair is characterized by fluid shape...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Fiberglass
5 Ivory Plastic 1969 Cnosso Wall or Ceiling Lamps by Mangiarotti for Artemide
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Set of 5 plastic ceiling or wall lamps designed in 1969 by Angelo Mangiarotti and produced by Artemide. The lamps can be combined to form a light panel of various shapes or placed separately. Originally the plastic was white in color, but due to time and use it has now turned yellow. Very good condition. Each lamp is equipped with 2 E27 lamp holders. Name of the manufacturer and of the designer...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Castore Table Lamp by Michele de Lucchi for Artemide
Located in Little Burstead, Essex
We have two of these cool lamps, medium size versions. Blown glass shades giving a creat diffuse ambience, and the touch dimmer switch on the base allows for perfect adjustment to su...
Category
Early 20th Century Italian Space Age Furniture
Materials
Blown Glass, Polyester
Dalu Table Lamp by Vico Magistretti for Artemide
Located in London, GB
This rare table lamp was designed by Vico Magistretti for the Italian manufacture Artemide during the 1960s, it is one of 2 that we currently have in stock. The lamp is made from one main piece of white plastic. Dalù is one a wonderful expression of Magistretti’s design ethos and reflects his belief that beauty and everyday functionality should be equally important in the object.
Vico Magistretti was born in Milan. He attended Parini High School before he enrolled in the Regio Politecnico Faculty of Architecture in Milan in the fall of 1939. In 1943-1944 he moved to Switzerland, where he attended several academic courses at the Champ Universitarie Italien in Lausanne. It was then that he spent time with Ernesto Nathan Rogers, who had a key influence on his intellectual education. In 1945 he returned to Milan, where he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Polytechnic University. He immediately started working for his father's company, the architect Piergiulio Magistretti, in via Conservatorio. The 1950s were a very busy and fruitful period for the young architect, who came up with many innovative ideas and very quickly became one of the most outstanding representatives of the third generation. Over the next few years he worked as a designer as well as an architect, creating furniture and objects that will always be classics of contemporary production. It was then that he was awarded the Golden Compass for the Eclisse lamp (1967).He then started working with important companies such as Artemide, Campeggi, Cassina, De Padova, Flou, Fontana Arte, Fritz Hansen, Kartell, Olivari, Oluce, Poggi, Schiffini Mobili Cucine and Gebrüder Thonet Vienna. His design works are in the permanent collection of MoMA - Museum of Modern Art in New York and in many other museums in America and Europe. In the field of architecture, it is worth mentioning his nomination as an honorary member of the Royal College of Art in London, where he was also a visiting professor. He also participated in exhibitions and conferences in Europe, Japan and the USA. Established in the 1960s, Artemide is one of the most famous lighting brands in the world. Known for its philosophy, The Human Light...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Pallade lamp produced by Artemide Italian Space-Age 1960s
Located in Genova, IT
'Pallade' lamp designed by Tetrarch studio and produced by Artemide the 1960’s.
Iconic piece of Italian space-age style.
The lamp can be used hanging or standing in a corner, and t...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Glass, Plastic
1970s Small Italian Arianna Piero Brombin for Artemide Lightbulb Shaped Pendant
Located in London, GB
1970s Small Italian 'Arianna' pendant hanging light designed by Piero Brombin for Artemide. The pendant light is designed to resemble an oversized white lightbulb. The white pear-sha...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal, Chrome, Wire
Nickel-Plated Metal 1970s Coat Rack Clitoquattro by Sergio Mazza for Artemide
By Artemide, Sergio Mazza
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Hat stand in matt nickel-plated brass. very good condition.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Brass, Nickel
Black Ivory Plastic Wall or Ceiling Teti Lamps by Vico Magistretti for Artemide
Located in Varese, Lombardia
This lamp is composed by 4 single Teti lamps, joined together by an aluminum structure. It can be used as a ceiling lamp, wall lamp or mirror lamp as well. i...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Aluminum
Green Metal Floor Lamp by Ernesto Gismondi for Artemide, 1970s, Italy
Located in Hagenbach, DE
Rare green floor lamp by Ernesto Gismondi for Artemide, 1970s, Italy
Lamp is in very good vintage condition.
This lamp works with E27 light bulb. Max 100W
Wired and suitable t...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal
Transparent Glass Pair of Sconces by Artemide, 1970s, Italy
By Artemide
Located in Hagenbach, DE
Transparent glass pair of sconces by Artemide, 1970s, Italy.
Very nice high quality wall lamps.
Lamps are in very good vintage condition.
These lamps works with E27 standard...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal
White/Ivory 1960s Cetra Pendant Lamp by V. Magistretti for Artemide
Located in Varese, Lombardia
This vintage pendant was produced by Artemide with painted brass and metal shades and white opaline glass sphere. The white paint has turned yellow over time, taking on a pleasant an...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal, Brass
Emma Gismondi's Umbrella Holder for Artemide 1960s Italy
Located in Den Haag, NL
Dedalo umbrella stand by Emma Gismondi Schweinberger for Artemide, 1960
Italy. Black color. With the normal wear and tear. after 50 years.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Plastic
White Desk Lamp by Ernesto Gismondi for Artemide, 1970s, Italy
Located in Hagenbach, DE
White desk lamp by Ernesto Gismondi for Artemide, 1970s, Italy
Adjustable head and body.
Very high quality.
Fully functional.
Original cable and plug. This lamp is suita...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal
Pair of Nickeled and Black Metal small Specchio Mirrors by S. Mazza for Artemide
By Sergio Mazza, Artemide
Located in Varese, Lombardia
These wall mirrors are made from a nickel-plated brass circular frame with brushed finishing and a black metal back. They remain in overall very good condition, but one mirror shows ...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal, Nickel
Artemide Nickeled Metal & Opaline Glass Aminta Floor Lamp by E. G. Schweinberger
Located in Varese, Lombardia
An iconic Aminta floor lamp designed by Emma Gismondi Schweinberger for Artemide. The lamp is made from nickel-plated brass and opaline glass shade. It remains in a very good vintage...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Brass, Nickel
Pallade Pendant Lamp by Studio Tetrarch for Artemide
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Pallade” vintage and iconic floor or table lamp designed by the collective designers group Studio Tetrarch and produced by Artemide Milano 1960’s. This lamp can be placed with differ...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal
Space Age Vintage Two Duo Brown Plastic Armchairs Vico Magistretti 1968 Italy
Located in Vienna, AT
Space Age vintage two duo brown armchairs from plastic model Gaudi designed by Vico Magistretti for Artemide 1968, Italy.
An iconic design armchair from plastic in chocolate brown co...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Space Age Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Mid-century Vintage Red Dalù Table Lamp by Vico Magistretti for Artemide, 1960s
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
This rare table lamp was designed by Vico Magistretti for the Italian manufacture Artemide during the 1960s. The lamp is made of red plastic. Dalù is one of the best designs to reflect the strict style of the great artist, who placed beauty and everyday use on the same level.
Vico Magistretti was born in Milan. He attended Parini High School before enrolled in the Regio Politecnico Faculty of Architecture in Milan in the fall of 1939. In 1943-1944 he moved to Switzerland, where he attended several academic courses at the Champ Universitarie Italien in Lausanne. It was then that he spent time with Ernesto Nathan Rogers, who had a key influence on his intellectual education. In 1945 he returned to Milan, where he graduated from the Faculty of Architecture at the Polytechnic University. He immediately started working for his father's company, the architect Piergiulio Magistretti, in via Conservatorio. The 1950s were a very busy and fruitful period for the young architect, who came up with many innovative ideas and very quickly became one of the most outstanding representatives of the third generation. Over the next few years he worked as a designer as well as an architect, creating furniture and objects that will always be classics of contemporary production. It was then that he was awarded the Golden Compass for the Eclisse lamp...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Rare Sergio Mazza Lounge Chair for Artemide
By Sergio Mazza, Artemide
Located in Buffalo, NY
This seldom seen space age modernist lounge chair was designed by architect and Artemide co-founder, Sergio Mazza in the 1960s. The chair features a stunning white fiberglass frame w...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Fiberglass, Fabric
Large Nickel & Sandblasted, Molded Glass "Kappa" Lamp by S. Mazza for Artemide
By Sergio Mazza, Artemide
Located in Varese, Lombardia
This large pendant was designed in the 1960s by Sergio Mazza for Artemide.
It is made from a nickel-plated brass structure with an opaline sandblasted shade and a molded clear glass...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Nickel, Sheet Metal, Brass
Nickel-Plated Brass 1970s Floor Coat Hanger Melpomene by BBPR for Artemide
By Studio BBPR, Artemide
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Nickel-plated metal and brass with burnished finishing; visible oxidation patina. Wear consistent with age and use.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Brass, Nickel
Space Age Vintage Yellow Plastic Armchair Gaudi by Vico Magistretti 1968 Italy
Located in Vienna, AT
Space Age vintage armchair model Gaudi by Vico Magistretti from plastic in yellow color tone for Artemide 1968, Italy.
The wonderful armchair model Gaudi in the rare color tone lemo...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Beautiful Round Heavy 60s Nickel Narciso Mirror by Sergio Mazza for Artemide
By Sergio Mazza, Artemide
Located in München, DE
Beautiful round heavy Narciso mirror from the 1960s.
Design by Italian designer Sergio Mazza. Manufactured by Artemide. Made in Italy
Great minimalist Italian design, frame is comp...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Nickel
Telegono Table Lamp by Vico Magistretti for Artemide 1968 in Very Good Condition
Located in München, DE
Original Telegono table lamp by Vico Magistretti for Artemide 1968.
In very good, perfect original condition.
The Italian classic with a red frame and the movable shade in creamy w...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Plastic
VeArt Italy Artemide Floor Lamp Design by Jeannot Cerutti
Located in Oostrum-Venray, NL
Afna 'floor lamp by VeArt ARtemide.
Design in Italy made in the 20th century.
A design by Jeannot Cerutti.
The shade is made of white frosted glass.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Steel, Chrome
Steel & Plastic 1960s Table Ashtray by E. Gismondi Schweinberger for Artemide
Located in Varese, Lombardia
Steel table ashtray with black plastic base designed by emma gismondi schweinberger for Artemide in 1966. Good condition: some light signs of wear due to time and use.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Steel
Space Age Artemide Dania Table Lamp by Dario Tagnon Made in Italy c 1960’s
By Dario Tognon, Artemide
Located in New York, NY
Classic Post Modern, Space Age Dania Table lamp, designed by Dario Tognon, for Artemide, made in Italy circa 1960’s.
The lamp features a white metal structure which is in original fi...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Space Age Furniture
Materials
Metal
Space Age White Demetrio Coffee Table by Vico Magistretti for Artemide
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
Vico Magistretti began his career as an architect after World War II, and in the 1960s he left behind many innovative designs as a designer.
He is one of the designers who laid the foundation of the Italian mid-century period, and his designs such as the Maralunga sofa by Cassina and the Eclisse lamp by Artemide still attract many people today.
This coffee table was released by Artemide in the 1960s and is an item integrally molded using fiber-reinforced plastic. The seamless form is very beautiful, and the lines and angles of the curves are so elegant that it is hard to believe that it is made of resin. The Demetrio 45 stacking table...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Gaudi Green Chair by Vico Magistretti for Artemide 1970s
Located in Byron Bay, NSW
The chairs are named "Gaudi" after the famous Catalan architect Antoni Gaudi, and their curvaceous forms and organic lines reflect the influence of Gaudi's style.
The chairs are mad...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Space Age Vintage Brown Plastic Armchairs "Gaudi" by Vico Magistretti, 1968
Located in Brescia , Brescia
The exquisite Gaudi Space Age armchairs by Vico Magistretti for Artemide, with a captivating vintage patina in brown chocolate plastic. Designed with a sleek and futuristic aesthetic...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Space Age Furniture
Materials
Plastic
Space Age furniture for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Space Age furniture for sale on 1stDibs. Many of these items were first offered in the 21st Century and Contemporary, but contemporary artisans have continued to produce works inspired by this style. If you’re looking to add vintage furniture created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include lighting, seating, tables and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, glass and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Space Age furniture made in a specific country, there are Europe, Italy, and Germany pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original furniture, popular names associated with this style include Mazzega Murano, Artemide, Kartell, and Joe Colombo. It’s true that these talented designers have at times inspired knockoffs, but our experienced specialists have partnered with only top vetted sellers to offer authentic pieces that come with a buyer protection guarantee. Prices for furniture differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $22 and tops out at $650,000 while the average work can sell for $1,719.
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