Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
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
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
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Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Red plastic and white writing cinema or theater sign, 1960s
Located in MIlano, IT
Italian mid-century modern red plastic and white writing cinema or theater sign, 1960s
Rectangular cinema or theater sign. The front structure is made of red plastic with engraved wh...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Metal
Abstract mid-century enameled framed lava stone
Located in STRASBOURG, FR
Mid-20th century abstract painting, enamel on lava, signature to be deciphered.
In very good condition, framed.
Lava dimensions: 35 x 45 cm / Frame 50 x 60 x 4
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Lava, Enamel
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Wilfredo Oscar De La Concepion Lam 'Cuba, 1902-1982' Color Lithograph Pair
By Wifredo Lam
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Colorful and fantastic Lithograph Pair by Wilfredo Lam, “”Demons Familliers” in yellow and “Lune Haute” in blue. Signed lower right, numbered XXIII/L lower left. Printed text on vers...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Glass, Wood, Paper
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Antique Caucasian Rug on Kilim
Located in New York, NY
A late 19th century Caucasian Kazak rug stitched onto a light blue Turkish Kilim.
Category
19th Century Unknown Antique Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton Canvas
$2,800 Sale Price
20% Off
Ceramic Plate with Scenes of Warriors and Purple 24-Karat Gold Horses Finzi
By Arrigo Finzi
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Large ceramic plate with scenes of warriors and purple 24-karat gold horses Finzi attributed.
Embossed decoration in 24-karat gold.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Gold Plate
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Large Abstract Resin Painting by Noted Artist Anita Weschler
By Anita Weschler
Located in New York, NY
Large and impressive abstract art work by noted artist Anita Weschler. This piece is from her series of resin pieces done in the mid 20th C., it is in v...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Resin
Representation of an African Giraffe Embossed Copper and Iroko Frame
Located in Labrit, Landes
African carved giraffe representation
Embossed copper and frame in carved iroko
Signed Mwamba
Shipping:
L 40 P2,5 H86.
Category
1940s African Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Copper
Sets Martinelli Large convex Plexiglass Wall Lights Italian Design White, 1970s
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Martinelli large convex plexiglass wall lights Italian design white 1970s
Measures: Big diametro cm.80, height cm.45, small diameter cm.50, height cm.25.
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Plexiglass
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Lg. Mid-Century Modern Oil Canvas Painting Titled "Progression" Larry Donaldson
Located in Ottawa, Ontario
Lg. Mid-Century Modern oil canvas painting titled "Progression" by Larry Donaldson, 1977.
Large Mid-Century Modern oil painting titled "Progression" by Larry Don...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Majolica Palissy Mackerel Wall Platter Attributed to Vallauris, circa 1950
By Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Large oval Majolica Palissy wall platter attributed to Vallauris, circa 1950.
A large mackerel on a seaweeds bed, lemon slice, shells and one small fish.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Majolica, Ceramic, Faience
Vintage Color Lithograph, Signed, Composition, Framed
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Author unknown, Composition
Color lithograph
Number 56/65
The work is signed by the artist and individually numbered (pencil)
Work dimensions 67/52
The work is framed
Work in origin...
Category
1980s Unknown Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$749 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
20th Century Green French Landscape, Forest Udile Oil Painting by Daniel Clesse
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A green-grey, vintage Mid-Century Modern French "Udile" oil on wood painting of a landscape, painted by Daniel Clesse in good condition. The painting depicts colorful nature of a for...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Vintage Handmade Turkish Rug Christmas Stocking
Located in Houston, TX
Handmade
Vintage from the 1960s
Materials: wool, cotton
Sustainable, upcycled Turkish rug Christmas stocking made from hand-woven rug fragments.
Width: 13 inches
Height: 17 inches
...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Turkish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool, Cotton
$107 Sale Price
40% Off
Rosario Calì, Cromatismo Ermetico, Mixed Media on Paper, 1960s, Framed
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Rosario Calì, Cromatismo Ermetico, 1960s
Mixed technique
The work is signed by the artist
Work dimensions 52/38
The work is framed
Rosario Calì was born in 1943. He's an Italian art...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$787 Sale Price
20% Off
1971 Signed Large Hand Painted Italian Decorative Plate
Located in Germantown, MD
For your consideration is this 1971 Large Hand Painted Italian Decorative plate. It is 13" in diameter and features a man watching a large wo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Paint
Tilgmans Swedish Modern Green Woman Wall Plate, Centerpiece, 1950s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Extraordinary modernist item by Swedish Tilgmans Keramik. Fully glazed centerpiece or wall decoration depicting a green faced woman with long stemmed yellow and blue flowers on a striped dark blue background created with the sgraffito technique. Manufactured in 1957 by German/Swedish Paul Harald Tilgman in his workshop in a small town close to Gothenburg in Sweden. Blue patterned glaze on the sides and muted blue leaves on the milky white glazed base. Signed and dated on base.
A rare and unique piece in beautiful condition!
Sweden, 1957.
About Tilgmans Keramik:
Paul Harald “Harry” Tilgmann was born in Dresden, Germany in 1904 and emigrated to Sweden during WWII where he started Tilgmans Keramik (= Ceramics) in 1948 in the small town of Utbynäs close to Gothenburg. Tilgman had 16 employees working for him and when he hired the Polish refugee Marian Zawadzki (1912-1978) as artistic director in 1953, Tilgman Keramik started experimenting with the distinct sgraffito technique. The sgraffito technique consists of carving fine lines into the background of a design through a light coloured glaze down to a dark grey clay slip. This created a unique textured ground which has become a style associated with Tilgmans Keramik in particular. The decorative elements also appear to be outlined with a carved line and then hand painted with overglazes where birds, fish, flowers, butterflies and other animals were a common theme. This type of work was the most popular in Mid Century Sweden alongside Tilgmans small animal figurines...
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Pottery, Stoneware
Jaime Hayon Kong Mirror by Bd Barcelona
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Mirror with designs applied in gold and black. The back of the mirrors are in black.
Measures: 110 x 120 cm
Year: 2016.
Category
2010s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Glass
$2,014 Sale Price / item
30% Off
Early 20th Century Butlins Lithograph Advertising Poster
Located in London, GB
Early 20th century Butlins lithograph advertising poster
A charming, fun, and rare example of a 1940s lithograph advertising poster for Butlins fair. Produced by Willsons, Printers of Leicester. The advert is written in the form of a £5 reward for a lost grey parrot...
Category
1940s British Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
20th Century Red French Abstract Oil Painting of a Color Field by Daniel Clesse
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A dark-blue, red vintage Mid-Century Modern French abstract oil on wood painting of a color field, painted by Daniel Clesse in good condition. Signed on the lower right. Wear consist...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
20th Century Turquoise-Green French Abstract Oil Painting by Daniel Clesse
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A turquoise-green, blue vintage Mid-Century Modern French abstract composition oil on wood painting, painted by Daniel Clesse in good condition. Signed on the lower right and counter...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
Modernist German Wall Rug by Ewald Kröner for Kröner-Tapisserie, Germany, 1980s
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Wall rug
Decade:
1980s
Origin:
Germany
Producer:
K-Tapisserie, Germany (in the 1960s and 1970s Schloss Hackhausen, Germany)
Design:
Ewald ...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
$2,357 Sale Price
20% Off
Hand Woven Reversible Bauhaus Wall Panel Artwork
By Pamela Print
Located in Chelmsford, GB
This striking contemporary piece of textile art can be displayed with either side facing, with or without the top fringe.
Handwoven on a dobby loom in Pamela's studio using a complex double cloth weaving technique and a combination of weave structures, this unique wall hanging...
Category
2010s British Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
Floral Organic Modern Ceramic Wall Plate / Centerpiece, 1950s
Located in Copenhagen, DK
Vintage handmade fully glazed Swedish midcentury modern wall platter / centrepiece with organic, floral decor depicting a gazelle with a direct gaze surrounded by vegetation in brown, ochre, green, white and bright pink colors on a striped dark blue background created with the experimental sgraffito technique that Tilgmans became famous for. Designed and handpainted in the late 1950s by Eivor Lang and manufactured by German/Finnish Paul Harald Tilgman in his workshop in the small town of Kortedala close to Gothenburg, Sweden. Milky white glaze on the base and sides with curved, muted green decor framing the image along the edge. Three holes for hanging - two in use with metal wire. Signed under base. An handpainted piece in beautiful condition.
Paul Harald “Harry” Tilgmann was born in Dresden, Germany in 1904 and emigrated to Sweden during WWII where he started Tilgmans Keramik (= Ceramics) in 1948 in the small town of Utbynäs close to Gothenburg. Tilgman had 16 employees working for him and when he hired the Polish refugee Marian Zawadzki (1912-1978) as artistic director in 1953, Tilgman Keramik started experimenting with the distinct sgraffito technique. The sgraffito technique consists of carving fine lines into the background of a design through a light colored glaze down to a dark grey clay slip. This created a unique textured ground which has become a style associated with Tilgmans Keramik in particular. The decorative elements also appear to be outlined with a carved line and then hand painted with overglazes where birds, fish, flowers, butterflies and other animals were a common theme. This type of work was the most popular in midcentury Sweden alongside Tilgmans small animal figurines...
Category
1950s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware, Pottery
Musical Theme Lithograph Titled "in Concert" by Edna Glaubman
Located in Miami, FL
A wonderful musical themed lithograph and piece of decorative art titled "In Concert" by Edna Glaubman.
Artist signature hand signed on the bottom right and signed in the plate.
Limited Edition numbered 67/100.
Edna Glaubman (1919-1986) influential American female artist who lived and worked in Miami from 1961 to 1986, and was part of the original Coconut Grove...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$1,000 Sale Price
33% Off
A Kay Whitcomb Enamel 1966
By Kay Whitcomb
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
A great enamel by Kay Whitcomb, framed, signed and dated 1966. Titled" Where your Treasure is, there will your Heart be also"
A note about the artist: " Whitcomb was born in 1921 in Arlington, Massachusetts, to a long line of New England metalsmiths, the Carr family. In a way, it was almost preordained that her life would be devoted to the crafts. While she hoped to attend the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, financial conditions prevented it. With financial assistance from relatives and friends, she began her art studies at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) in 1939. Whitcomb recalls that in her third year, in 1941, she took an enameling class. Her instructor taught the cloisonné technique. Ruth Raemisch also used the same facilities, working on her enamels while regular courses were offered. Whitcomb recalls being intrigued by Raemisch’s techniques and wanting to emulate the distinguished German-born artist, whose style was based on the Limoges school of enamel painting. She completed her course work at RISD in 1942 while taking additional classes at the Cambridge School of Art. In 1944 she joined the United States Marine Corps Women’s Reserve at Camp Pendleton...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel
Giant Large Striking Abstract Oil on Canvas
Located in San Diego, CA
Very large vintage oil on canvas very impressive when you look it in person, circa 1960s unsigned this unique piece fill a wall and makes a statement.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
$3,600 Sale Price
20% Off
Piero Aversa "Masquerading Cats" Original Mixed-Media, circa 1970s
By Piero Aversa
Located in San Francisco, CA
Piero Aversa (1928-1990) "Masquerading Cats" original mixed-media, circa 1970s
A fantastic original painting created with oil paint and sand.
These cool cats are ready for the ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
Extra Large Modernist Macrame Wall Rug by Desso Studio, Netherlands, 1970s
By Desso
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Wall rug
Decade:
1970s
Origin:
Netherlands
Producer:
Desso, Netherlands
This rug is a great example of 1970s pop art interior. Made in high quality weaving technique. This high quality high pile macramé knotted...
Category
Late 20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
$2,310 Sale Price
20% Off
1970s Vintage "Ricard '78" Nautical Oil on Canvas Wall Modern Painting Sea Ship
Located in London, GB
Alluring acrylic on canvas painting of an abstract ship in the night, with deep blue and black hues. The acrylic paint is embossed in places, giving it a depth of texture. Signed "Ri...
Category
1970s Spanish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wood, Canvas
$270 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Commercial Sign, English, Bronze, Sign-Written, Name Plaque, circa 1950
Located in Hele, Devon, GB
This is a vintage commercial sign. An English, bronze sign-written name plaque for Phoenix Assurance, dating to the mid-20th century, circa 19...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Bronze
Set of 3 ceramic tiles by Roger Capron, France - 1970s
By Roger Capron
Located in Berlin, DE
Set of 3 tiles by Roger Capron, France - 1970s.
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Victor Vasarely Attributed Group of 48 Rosenthal Tiles
Located in Naples, IT
Group of 48 Rosenthal tiles, 25 in black biscuit porcelain and 23 in white biscuit porcelain, Studio Linie collection.
Category
1970s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
20th Century Light-Blue French Abstract Painting by Daniel Clesse
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A French light blue white abstract painting oil on wood by Daniel Clesse, painted in France, signed and dated in 1991.
Without the frame:...
Category
Late 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Vintage Mid-Century Modern Woven Textile Framed Abstract Wall Art, circa 1970s
Located in Miami, FL
Vintage Medium Size Mid Century Modern Woven Textile Framed Abstract / Folk Wall Art. Circa 1970s
Features a handwoven abstract geometric pattern in a e...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Aluminum
20th Century Dark-Green, Purple French Modern Abstract Painting by Daniel Clesse
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
A dark-green, purple vintage Mid-Century Modern French abstract oil on wood painting, painted by Daniel Clesse in good condition. Signed on the lower right. Wear consistent with age ...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
Set 4 Modern Stainless Steel, Brass & Copper Wall Sculptures, Curtis Jere
Located in Queens, NY
SET 4 American Modern Stainless Steel Square Wall plaques with 2 brass textending rods in the back and having a central square brass, copper, and steel geometric abstract sculpture, ...
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Steel
Vintage Johnny Friedlander Abstract Aquatint, circa 1960s
Located in Miami, FL
A very decorative work of art, circa 1965.
Title unknown by Johnny Friedlaender German (1912–1992)
Aquatint, signed in pencil on the lower right.
Edition E.A. "Eppreuve d'Artist"
A...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paint
$1,120 Sale Price
20% Off
Oil of the 1960s Italian Represents the Saltworks of the Island of Mozia Trapani
Located in Palermo, Sicily
Oil of the 1960s Italian represents the saltworks of the island of Mozia Trapani, Signed Wultanio.
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Chestnut, Paint
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