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Dining Room Sets For Sale
Style: Mid-Century Modern
Style: Folk Art
Midcentury Italian Set of 4 Chairs and Table, 1970
Located in Los Angeles, CA
The midcentury Italian set of four chairs and table from the 1970s, crafted in giunco wood, exudes a rustic charm and timeless elegance. The chairs feature a stylish and ergonomic de...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Rush

Frits Henningsen Danish Dining Table
Located in Atlanta, GA
Danish Modern Mahogany dining table, designed by Frits Henningsen, Denmark, circa 1930s. This dining table is currently being refinished and the leaves will be re-veneered, as their veneer was missing when we purchased the set. It expands from a compact 43" circle to an impressive 108.5" oval with all three of it's leaves installed. We also have the matching dining chairs from the same estate currently listed on 1stdibs. Please see last photos. This listing and pricing is for the dining table only.
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1930s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Metal

1970s Set of Four Lucite Dining Chairs and Dining Table, Charles Hollis Jones St
Located in Praha, CZ
- newly upholstered in velvet fabric - good/very good condition with minor signs of use - heigh of seat 43 cm.
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1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Velvet, Lucite

Umberto Mascagni for Harrods London Mid-Century Modern Italian Dining Table, 50s
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Dining table designed by Umberto Mascagni of Bologna in the 1950s. The main body structure is in solid European wood, covered in brown veined vinyl and anodized aluminum. The legs ar...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Aluminum

Scandinavian Table and Bench Set
Located in New York, NY
Scandinavian Table and Bench set. The set is solid elm with an X stretcher base. Dining Room Set. Benches measures: 16.75H x 59W x 14.5D. Table Measures: 2...
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1960s Scandinavian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Elm

Carlo Scarpa Cognac Leather “Kentucky” Dining Chair for Bernini, 1977, Set of 5
Located in Vicenza, IT
Set of 5 mod. 783 “Kentucky” dining chairs, designed by Carlo Scarpa for the Italian manufacturer Bernini in 1977. Structure made from oak and walnut timber. Seats and backrest made from cognac leather. Excellent vintage condition. Carlo Scarpa designed this chair for the “Scuderia” series., the last project he made for Bernini. The architect took inspiration from the “shaker” movement. He designed the chair slightly inclined at the front. This feature allows you to swing backward (until you lean on a wall) and remain in balance. Born in Venice on June 2nd, 1906, Carlo Scarpa began working at a very early age. 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, Carlo Scarpa 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 that stands on the Grand Canal banks, 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 found himself 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 [bookshop known as the] Padiglione del Libro, which stands in Venice’s Giardini di Castello and clearly shows 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 terms of 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 significant ever works, which inevitably bears comparison with two other museum layouts that he was working on over the same period, those of: – Galleria Nazionale di Sicilia, housed in the Palazzo Abatellis in Palermo (1953-55) – 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 the renovation and restoration of the gardens and ground floor of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, which many consider one of his greatest works. While he busied himself working on-site at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Carlo Scarpa also began work building a villa in Udine for the Veritti family. To shed some light on the extent to which his work evolved over the years, it may perhaps be useful to compare this work with that of his very last building, villa Ottolenghi Bardolino, which was near to 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, working on the Carlo Felice Theatre in Genoa and 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, there are plenty of other episodes which can offer some insight into the final years of his career. As work on the San Vito d’Altivole Mausoleum began to lessen from 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 was carrying out at the same time 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, rising up 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 which ends by a small chapel, with an arcosolium bearing the family sarcophagi, the main 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 of his many skills to come up with this truly magnificent space. As well as a great commitment to architectural work, with the many projects which 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 couch and armchair “Cornaro” to the collection and the “Toledo” bed...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Walnut, Leather, Plastic

Mid-Century Modern Dining Set Styled After Clifford Pascoe, C. 1960s
Located in Weehawken, NJ
Mid-Century Modern Dining Set in the style of Clifford Pascoe, c. 1960s. This unique set is perfectly sized for smaller spaces and consists of 4 dining chairs and round dining table,...
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1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Iron

1950s California Design Danny Ho Fong Wicker Iron Tiki Dining Table Stool Set
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Super cabin-modern and hard to find California design outdoor patio set. The wicker on all pieces is still in very good condition! All these pieces were procured together, and are in original unrestored condition. The upholstery on the 4 stools okay, two stools each have a puncture each to the tops, and one a hole/nick to the edge. It is recommended you recover the stools to match your situation/uses...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Iron

Unique Drop-Leaf Gate Leg Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Wonderful vintage maple drop-leaf table featuring unique carved gate legs. Use with one leaf or two to adjust the table top from a compact 44"x34" table top to an ample 44"x60". Perf...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Wood, Maple

Italian Dining Chairs by Gianfranco Frattini Reupholstered
Located in Atlanta, GA
Set of Four Clean Lined Italian Dining Chairs, designed by Gianfranco Frattini for Lema S.P.A., Italian, circa 1960s. The chairs are currently being reupholstered and can be complete...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Upholstery, Plastic, Wood, Maple

1950s French Inspired Bronze Iron Dining Table Set Six Chairs Arturo Pani
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1950s Mexico City French inspired Dining Table Set Forged iron and bronze. New glass top Table 30 x 59 inches diameter Set includes 6 dining chairs. 33.25 tall x 20 d x 20.5 w Seat 19.5 h chairs No label Dining table 4 legs clean and modern simple lines. Brass ball at feet. Please note beautifully decorated bronze sabots at tips on legs. Suggestive of French influence Jean Royère. The chairs (6) have a beautiful X weave pattern on back, welded into forged iron frame. All firm and sturdy. Original vintage unrestored condition. Patina present. Original upholstery is sun faded. Retains vintage nail...
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1950s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Brass, Bronze, Iron

Midcentury Skovby Mobelfabrik Dining Set
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A stunning vintage modern Danish teak pedestal base dining table with two leaves by Skovby Mobelfabrik. This attractive set caters to many with the ...
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1970s European Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Faux Leather, Teak

Danish Modern Extendable Teak Dining Table by Brdr Furbo
Located in North Hollywood, CA
Danish modern extending teak dining table manufactured by BRDR Furbo in Denmark, circa 1950s. This vintage dining table is built with the highest quality teak wood, where the aesthet...
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1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Teak

Vintage Wrought Iron Patio Furniture Seating Chairs with Teak Table
Located in Cumberland, RI
Vintage wrought iron patio furniture seating chairs with teak table No matter what your style – mid century modern, rustic, traditional, or farmhouse– you can create this stylish and trending look by mixing wood and metal. This set features 6 chairs with a generously sized teak finish table measuring 70” in length and 34.75” in width. At a height of 30”, this beautifully paired dining set, will allow for comfortable seating for six with 4 dining style chairs and 2 High Back Arm Chairs. Perfect dining set that works both inside or outdoors. Notice the continuous Lyon Shaw...
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Wrought Iron

Thaden-Jordan 1940’s Herbert Von Thaden Mid-Century Modern Table/Chairs 5pc Set
Located in Thiensville, WI
Thaden-Jordan 1940’s Herbert Von Thaden Mid-Century Modern table & chairs 5pc set • As designed by Herbert Von Thaden & Donald Lewis Jordan • Manufactured by Thaden-Jordan Furniture...
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1940s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Bentwood, Plywood

Lucite and Glass Coffee Table
Located in Stratford, CT
A Classic design, beautifully executed, in walnut. The finish is original. The chairs are upholstered in the original fabric.
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1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Glass, Lucite

Rare 1939 Samuel Marx Dining Room Set by Quigley
By Marx Samuel
Located in Van Nuys, CA
This original dining set includes a dining table produced by Samuel Marx for the Quigley Company Marx in 1939, an important architect and designer renowned for his custom one of kind...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Wood

Vintage Patio Set, Table & 4 Chairs, by Brown Jordan
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A fabulous table and four coordinating chairs. Made by the iconic Brown Jordan. Part of their Classic ll series. The table retains the original label, the chairs come with a clot...
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1980s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Aluminum

Mid Century Spun Fiberglass Patio Set by Russell Woodard
Located in Redding, CT
Mid Century spun fiberglass patio set by Russell Woodard. Fun, atomic age set for that trendy patio.Use in or outdoors. Glass table top that sits recessed above its sculptural base. ...
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1960s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Fiberglass

Mid Century Italian Dining Set by Gianfranco Fratrini
Located in Paddock Wood Tonbridge, GB
Dining table and six chairs by Gianfranco Frattini A table and six chairs designed by Frattini and produced by Bernini in Italy in 1957. The model 552 dining table has two hourglass...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Rosewood

Server and Dining Room Set by Paul McCobb
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Add timeless Mid-Century Modern style to your dining room with this vintage set by Paul McCobb. It includes an expanding dining table, six chairs (2 with arms, 4 without), and a large server...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Upholstery, Walnut

Philippe Starck Sculptural Dining Chairs for Driade, circa 1980s
Located in Atlanta, GA
Set of four sculptural "Costa" Model Dining Chairs, designed by Philippe Starck for Driade, Italy, circa 1980s. These chairs are being refinished and reupholstered and can be complet...
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1980s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Metal

T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings Dining Table
Located in Atlanta, GA
Elegant mid century dining table, designed by T. H. Robsjohn-Gibbings for Widdicomb, American, circa 1950s. Clean lined design with elegant splayed legs. It expands from 58-78" width...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Metal

Mid-Century Modern Dining Set in Chrome and Glass
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This stylish vintage chrome dining set includes six matching Stendig style chairs with matching chrome frame dining table. Making a beautiful Mid-Century Modern statement in any sett...
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1970s Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Chrome

Set of Four Grotto Shell Chairs and Matching Table
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A set of four Grotto chairs newly upholstered and powder coated. The set are a compliment to any dining area, inside or out of doors. The powder coating allows them to be outside as ...
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20th Century Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Aluminum

Marble Topped Side Table with Wine Bottle Holders for 20 Bottles & Serving Tray
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this stunning vintage Mahogany Marble topped side table with Butlers serving tray and x20 bottle holders A very good looking and well-made piece...
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20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Marble

Rare Paul McCobb Blonde Planner Group Extension Table with Six Chairs
Located in Ferndale, MI
Paul McCobb designed dining table with six matching dining chairs from the Planner group series for Winchendon Furniture. Estate fresh and fine original condition. Table top shows ve...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Maple

Dining Table, Danish Design, Rosewood, Dutch Extensions, 1960s
Located in Lejre, DK
A stunning dining table crafted by a Danish cabinetmaker in luxurious rosewood, featuring a Dutch extension mechanism, dating back to the 1960s. This dining table epitomizes the ele...
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1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Rosewood

Super-Ellipse, Model B613, Designed by Piet Hein
Located in Lejre, DK
Super-Ellipse, Model B613, designed by Piet Hein with white laminate and steel chrome legs. A table in very good used condition. No stratches on the top plate. This product will ...
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21st Century and Contemporary Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Laminate

Vittorio Dassi Iconic Design Mid-Century Modern Italian Dining Table, 1950s
Located in Puglia, Puglia
Beautiful table designed by the famous Italian Mid-Century Modern designer Vittorio Dassi, 1950. The exceptional woodwork is highlighted by the curved green glass top and the rounde...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Marble

Carlo Scarpa Mid-Century Brown Walnut “Scuderia” Dining Table for Bernini, 1977
Located in Vicenza, IT
“Scuderia” dining table, designed by Carlo Scarpa and produced by the Italian manufacturer Bernini in 1977. Originally, Carlo Scarpa designed the table to restore the stable of Villa Valmarana in Vicenza in 1972. The table features a solid walnut structure. Available also five “Kentucky” dining...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Walnut

Italian Modern Dining Table by Bertha Schaefer for Singer and Sons
Located in Atlanta, GA
Italian modern dining table, designed by Bertha Schaefer for Singer and Sons, Italy, circa 1950s. This table is currently being refinished ...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Metal

Dining Room Set with Table and Four Chairs by Giotto Stoppino, Italy 1970s
Located in Hellouw, NL
Very nice dining room set by Giotto Stoppino from the 1970s in Italy. This set consists of a dining table and four matching dining room chairs. The table has a tubular, chrome-plated...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Metal, Chrome

ARTHUR UMANOFF for Syd Leach 1950's Mid Century 5-Piece Wrought Iron Dining Set
Located in Charlotte, NC
An iconic patio set designed by Arthur Umanoff. Produced by Sid Leach of Alabama in the 1950's. White painted round wrought iron table with glass top, and four white painted high-bac...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Iron

Frits Henningsen Danish Modern Dining Chairs, circa 1930s
Located in Atlanta, GA
Danish Modern mahogany dining chairs by Frits Henningsen, Denmark, circa 1930s. They have probably been refinished and reupholstered at some point. Beautiful caramel color leather se...
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1930s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Leather, Wood, Mahogany

Expandable Dining Table in Caviuna by Carlo Hauner and Martin Eisler, circa 1955
Located in New York, NY
Carlo Hauner and Martin Eisler are most known for well-shaped armchairs made in iron, but the production is far more complex, handcrafted, and extensive. The wood pieces produced by ...
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1950s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Wood

1950s Danish Cabinetmaker Spider Table and 4 Chairs in Solid Pine
Located in Vejle Øst, DK
Presumably unique spider dining set made by a master carpenter. Made of solid pine with a star-shaped table top.
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1950s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Pine

Rare Henry P. Glass for “Stux” Patio or Dining Set
Located in Round Rock, TX
Incredibly rare dining or patio set designed by Henry P. Glass for Stux. The set is from the “ Stux Beau Fer” collection. Designed in 1953 This set features four iron chairs and a b...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Iron

Extendable Round Dining Room Set by Rainer Daumiller Brutalist Table + 5 Chairs
Located in Copenhagen, DK
German architect turned designer, Rainer Daumiller, popularized these playful pine dining sets through the Danish brand, Hirtshals Savvaerk, in the 1960s and ‘70s. Designed to be fun...
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1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Pine

Über Chic Italian Aldo Tura Tobacco Coloured Lacquered Goatskin / Parchment E
Located in Benington, Herts
An über chic Italian Aldo Tura tobacco coloured lacquered goatskin / parchment elliptically shaped dining table by renowned Italian Desinger Aldo Tura in the mid 20th Century, a fine...
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1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Goatskin

1950s Paul Frankl Black Cerused Dining Set Brown Saltman California
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1950s Paul Frankl black cerused oak wood dining set for Brown Saltman CA Dining table and six dining chairs Table 95 long x 41.75 depth x 29.75 height. With one extension 80 long. 6...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Fabric, Oak

Edward Wormley for Dunbar Expandable Game Table W/ Chairs, C. 1950s
Located in Westport, CT
A rarely found games table executed in mahogany, designed by Edward Wormley for Dunbar, circa 1950-1950. Features an expandable mechanism that brings the table from 32" square to 62"...
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Chenille, Mahogany

Sublime circa 1950s Robert Mouseman Thompson 6 Person Dining Table Must See
Located in GB
We are delighted to offer for sale this very collectable early circa 1950s Robert Mouseman Thompson English oak refectory dining table with sublime patination If you are reading this listing then the chances are you know exactly what this is. This has the mid century mouse carving...
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1950s English Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Oak

Tito Agnoli for Bonacina Rare Carabou Dining Set in Rattan and Cherry Wood, 1991
Located in New York, NY
Tito Agnoli for Pierantonio Bonacina rare exquisite Carabou dining set consisting of a round cherry wood and rattan dining table and four woven rattan dining chairs. This architectur...
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1990s European Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Metal

Studio Simon Granite Brutalist Samo Table in the Style of Carlo Scarpa, 1970
Located in Vicenza, IT
Dining table mod. ‘Samo’ by Studio Simon. Series ‘Ultrarazionale’. Italy, 1970. Made of granite. Literature: Giuliana Gramigna, Repertorio 1950-2000, Allemandi, Torino, 2003, p.180. Excellent vintage condition. The Samo table was designed in 1970 by the project office of Studio Simon. Carlo Scarpa was the brand's artistic director, and the Venetian architect's style inspired the shapes of this table. Born in Venice on June 2nd, 1906, Carlo Scarpa began working at a very early age. 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 found himself 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, which are all worth mention. 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 terms of how 20th century museums were to be 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 greatest 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 renovation and restoration of the gardens and ground floor of the Fondazione Querini Stampalia in Venice, which many consider being one of his greatest works. While he busied himself working on-site at the Fondazione Querini Stampalia, Carlo Scarpa also began work building a villa in Udine for the Veritti family. To shed some light on the extent to which his work evolved over the years, it may perhaps be useful to compare this work with that of his very last building, villa Ottolenghi Bardolino, which was near to 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, there are plenty of other episodes which can offer some insight into the final years of his career. As work on the San Vito d’Altivole Mausoleum began to lessen from 1973, Carlo Scarpa began work building the new headquarters for the Banca Popolare di Verona. He drew up plans that were surprisingly different from the work he was carrying out at the same time 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 20th 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, rising up 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 which ends by a small chapel, with an arcosolium bearing the family sarcophagi, the main 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 of his many skills to come up with this truly magnificent space. As well as a great commitment to architectural work, with the many projects which 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 8 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 couch and armchair “Cornaro” to the collection and the “Toledo” bed...
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1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Granite

Mid-Century Modern 5pc Iron Hoop Chairs with Table by Maurizio Tempestini
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous 5 piece set which includes 4 iron hoop chairs and a iron table. Table is 36.25 in diameter x 29h. In excellent vintage condition with minimal ...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Iron

1950s Eugenio Escudero Ebonized Mahogany Dining Set + Six Velvet Chairs Mexico
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Sophisticated dining set Ebonized Mahogany wood dining table Six blue velvet chairs Mexico circa 1950s Attributed to Eugenio Escudero. Unmarked. Set includes six dining chairs and an oval shaped dining table. Mahogany Wood ebonized with black lacquer. Chairs have brass accents and blue velvet seats. Very comfortable. Original preowned vintage condition. Wear consistent with age and use...
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1950s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Brass

Vittorio Nobili Mid-Century Teak Medea Dining Room Set with Table & Chairs, 1956
Located in Vicenza, IT
Set composed of four Medea dining chairs and their circular table, designed by Vittorio Nobili for Fratelli Tagliabue in 1954. Made of teak plywood, excellent vintage condition. Reported at “Compasso d’Oro Prize at Milano Triennale, in 1956. The Medea chair was manufactured in Italy between 1950 to 1959. The manufacturer of this chair was Fratelli Tagliabue. Vittorio Nobili designed it. Although he designed this chair in vintage times, it is suitable for our modern needs. This chair adds elegance and looks to its surroundings. This chair was reported at the prestigious Industrial Design Award, Compasso d’Oro, in 1955. Other iconic pieces, such as Soriana by Afra and Tobia Scarpa...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Iron

Paul McCobb for Calvin Dining Set
Located in Chicago, IL
Paul McCobb for Calvin Dining Set, Features Six Dining Chairs, Two Arm Chairs, and Four Side Chairs, a Rectangular Table in mahogany veneer original medium tone with a solid brass st...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Brass

53" Knoll Platner Dining Table and Chairs
Located in Pasadena, TX
Knoll platner dining table and chairs In 1966, the Platner Collection captured the “decorative, gentle, graceful” shapes that were b...
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Late 20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Chrome

Wrough Iron Round White Marble Top Dining Table 6 Chairs w/ Brass Finials Set
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Outdoor Wrough Iron Round White Marble Top Dining Table 6 Chairs w/ Brass Finials Set MINT! Table: dia 48 x 31h' Chairs: 20'' x 17'' ...
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Marble, Iron

Dining Room set in solid Elm including 6 stools, France, 1970's
Located in Amsterdam, NL
Very comfortable dining room table including six stools. The stools and table follow the same shapes creating a consistent and robust set. The table is made of solid elm and the top ...
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1970s French Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Elm

T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings Dining Table Refinished in Your Color Choice
Located in Atlanta, GA
Sculptural X Base Dining Table, designed by T.H. Robsjohn Gibbings for Widdicomb, American, circa 1950s. This dining table is currently being refinished and can be completed in your choice of color. The price noted INCLUDES refinishing in your choice of color. The dining table expands...
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1950s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Wood

8 Pc Mid-Century Modern Sculptural Spun Fiberglass Dining Set by Russell Woodard
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous 8pc indoor outdoor dining set of spun fiberglass by Russell Woodard. Set includes table with a glass top, not pictured, glass is per...
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1960s American Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Fiberglass, Paint

Set of Six Midcentury Dining Chairs in Maple, Italy
Located in Albano Laziale, Rome/Lazio
A set of six Italian dining chairs with a sublime organic design in maple attributed to Augusto Romano and re-upholstered in black velvet. The chairs have supreme craftsmanship and a...
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Velvet, Maple

Mid-Century Modern 5 Pieces Glass Top Outdoor Dining Set Art, Russel Woodard
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Nice lime green five pieces ripple glass top dining dinette outdoor set star shape table base atr. to Russel Woodard or Salterini. Chairs measure: 20 x 21 x 32 seat 16" H.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Steel

Arne Vodder Dining Set in Palisander for Sibast 1950s
Located in St-Brais, JU
A rare rosewood dining set designed by Arne Vodder including a square dining table and four elegant chairs. Made in Denmark in the 1950s, by Sibast. In very good vintage condition, c...
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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Dining Room Sets

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Leather, Rosewood

Set of 3 Vintage Chess Coffee Table "Chess" in Work Iron by Luigi Colli, Italy
Located in Biella, IT
Luigi Colli Italy set of chess glass coffee table in work iron years ’40 perfect and original condition, very rare. Top glass with work acid engraved the chessboard in the surface...
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1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Vintage Dining Room Sets

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Iron

Vintage, New and Antique Dining Room Sets

Introduce warmth and a welcoming atmosphere to meals in your home with an antique, new or vintage dining room set.

From the “less is more” approach of Scandinavian modern dining room sets, which are typically characterized by muted colors, clean lines and an emphasis on organic material, to rustic-chic farmhouse-style suppers to the pronounced geometric angles and dark woods of Art Deco, there are numerous directions to pursue when shopping for a dining room set.

No matter how much real estate you have to work with, the dining table will play an integral role in the elegant space where the whole family or your closest friends create new memories and mark momentous occasions. But be sure of your space before you buy and keep the rest of your decor scheme in mind: For a modest-sized room, you’ll want to consider the shape and style of your table to ensure that guests can easily move around and into the kitchen as needed. A set of widely loved Series 7 chairs, designed by mid-century modern architect Arne Jacobsen, paired with one of his streamlined dining room tables, for example, will surely have a small footprint in your dining area, while an antique mahogany dining room set originating during the Victorian era will bring sophistication and formality to your parties of 12 or more.

There are lots of dining room design ideas you can put into practice — get started today with a variety of antique, new or vintage dining room sets on 1stDibs.

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