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
Clyde Burt Ceramic Charger
By Clyde Burt
Located in Chicago, IL
Clyde Burt ceramic charger in glazed stoneware. Signature to underside: [CB]. American, circa 1965.
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Colorful Mid Century Street Scene
Located in Redding, CT
Colorful Mid Century street scene. Unsigned oil on canvas. Vivid colors of blues, greens and purples. Amazing light and depth make up this inc...
Category
1960s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wood, Canvas
Fausta Dossi Textured Oil on Canvas "Cieli Australi", circa 2009
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Abstract Oil Painting on Canvas by Fausta Dossi (B 1936)
This is an abstract oil painting on canvas created by Fausta Dossi, a renowned Italian artist from Milan, in 2007. The pai...
Category
Early 2000s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Alain Winance, Composition, Color lithograph, 1990s, Framed
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Alain Winance, Composition, 1994
Color lithograph
The work is signed by the artist and dated (pencil)
Work dimensions 98/67
The work is framed
Alain Winance is a Belgian artist born...
Category
1990s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$1,913 Sale Price
20% Off
Victor Olson Impasto Oil on Board of Arabs
Located in Redding, CT
Victor Olson Impasto oil on board of Arabs.
Victor Olson (1925-2007)
Mr. Olson attended the Art Career School of New York. He was a well-known award-winning artist, as well as an il...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
$1,665 Sale Price
76% Off
Vintage Cast Stone copy of a Quail Chick plaque by Metropolitan Museum of Art
Located in Seattle, WA
Comes with original box. Vintage Condition Consistent with as pictured. Box H15
Dimensions. Plaque. 4” W ; 0.50” D ; 4.75” H
Category
1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Cast Stone
Josef Albers "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 22
By Josef Albers
Located in Chicago, IL
JOSEF ALBERS (1888 – 1976)
"Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 22
Screen-printed geometric composition printed by Ives Stillman, Inc., New Haven, CT.
From the set of 12...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
"Turbanned Man on Goat w/ Flowers', Striking Enamel Painting, Style of Rubin
By Reuven Rubin
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Richly drenched in vibrant colors -- forest green, deep red, cornflower yellow, black and white -- this framed enamel panel depicts an exotic man in a turba...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel
Åke Arenhill, Tio visor i bild om den förlorade sinnligheten, 10 lithographs
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Åke Arenhill, Tio visor i bild om den förlorade sinnligheten
A collection of 10 lithographs
Number 72/400
Works signed by the artist and individually numbered (pencil)
Work dimension...
Category
1980s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$1,050 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Mid-century Plaster wall sculpture, 1950's
Located in Praha, CZ
Made in Czechoslovakia
With aged patina
Interesting decoration
Original condition
Category
1950s Czech Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Plaster
Ardath Coldwell "Red Shoes" Original Oil Painting, circa 1960s
Located in San Francisco, CA
Ardath Coldwell (American, B.1913) "Red Shoes" original oil painting, circa 1960s
Original oil on canvas by listed American artist Ardath Coldwell.
A beautiful young woman wearing a blue dress and red shoes.
Canvas dimensions 10" wide x 14" high. The frame measures 15.25" wide x 19.25" high.
Signed in the lower right corner. Very good condition.
Born in Portland, OR on Sept. 16, 1913. After attending high school in Salem, Coldwell moved to San Francisco in 1933. Enrolling at the CSFA, she studied under Ralph Stackpole...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
H Lee Hirsche Impasto (1927-2008), Mountain Storm, 1961, Mixed Media paint impas
Located in Virginia Beach, VA
N. Lee Hirsche, “Mountain Storm”, 1961. Mixed Media, .OIl and Sand Impasto on Board.
H. Lee Hirsche was born in New London, Connecticut, and studied under Josef Albers at the Yale ...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paint
Vintage Ceramic Wall Decoration
Located in Praha, CZ
Large vintage decorative ceramic wall plate.
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Modernist Wall Rug LJ6 by Ewald Kröner, Schloss Hackhausen, Germany, 1970s No. 3
Located in Kirchlengern, DE
Article:
Wall rug
Decade:
1970s
Origin:
Germany
Producer:
Schloss Hackhausen, Germany
Design:
Ewald Kröner
This rug is a great example of 1970...
Category
Late 20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Cotton
$1,822 Sale Price
20% Off
Bata Mihailović, Horisont, Color Lithography, 1976, Framed
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Bata Mihailovic, Horisont
Color lithography
Number 153/300
Work signed by the artist and has individual number (pencil)
Work dimensions 65/79
Framed work
Milorad Bata Mihailović (19...
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$810 Sale Price
20% Off
Curtis Jere Mid Century Fishing Village Metal Sculpture
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Countryside, IL
Curtis Jere mid century fishing village metal sculpture
This sculpture measures: 46 wide x 10.5 deep x 29 inches high
This sculpture is i...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Metal
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
Cassina Mboro Outdoor Accessories
By Cassina
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Cassina Mboro Outdoor Accessories
Outdoor accessories complete the Cassina lineup of furnishings for open-air living and dining areas. The baskets are inspired by the shapes and br...
Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Yarn
$119 Sale Price / item
50% Off
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
Vintage Color Lithograph in the Trend of Primitivism, Naive Art, Framed
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Author unknown
Color lithograph
Work dimensions 51/47
The work is framed
The piece in the trend of primitivism, naive art.
Work in original condition. The frame shows minor signs o...
Category
1980s Unknown Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$685 Sale Price
20% Off
Lawrence Heyman, Fertilization IIII from Atelier 17 Series, Original Etching
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Lawrence Heyman, Fertilization III from the Atelier 17 series
Etching on Arches paper
Number 11/30
This work is signed by the artist. Has an individual n...
Category
1960s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$1,146 Sale Price
20% Off
Abstract Portrait of a Boy with his Dog, circa 1940
Located in San Francisco, CA
Outstanding abstract portrait of a boy with his dog, circa 1940
This is truly an extraordinary painting done by a very talented artist.
A bit of old fashioned detective work by...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas
1962 Etching Titled, Dated, Signed Numbered "Moscow Symposium" #4/4 H. Valoff
Located in Monrovia, CA
Vintage 1962 original Etching titled, dated, signed and numbered "Moscow Symposium" #4/4 H. Valoff 1962.
1962 original etching by Artist H. Valoff is framed and ready to hang.
Mo...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Other
Natalie Cole Signed Vintage Oil on Board Painting "Lady Godiva" Custom Framed
By Natalie Cole
Located in North Miami, FL
This large 1960s oil on masonite powerful and dramatic painting is by a woman painter named Natalie Cole. This is the male version of Lady Godiva. It is newly magnificently custom fr...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Silver Leaf
Mid-Century Round Dish Robert Picault Vallauris
Located in Austin, TX
Mid-Century round dish with handle by Robert Picault Vallauris.
Robert Picault (1919 - 2000) was born in Vincennes, Paris and studied at the School of Applied Arts in Paris. After th...
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Faience
Three Dimensional 3D Wall Hanging Aluminum Frame Plaque Art Painting on Glass
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Three Dimensional 3D Wall Hanging Aluminum Frame Plaque Art Painting on Glass
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Aluminum
Mid-Century Modern Mosaic Artwork Circa 1960s
Located in Wheat Ridge, CO
A one-of-a-kind handmade mosaic art piece circa 1960s with brilliant shades of browns, copper, amber, turquoise and white. Intricate beading, mixed metal, glass, and copper make up t...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Metal, Copper
Miro Alcohol de Menthe Mid Century Galerie Adrien Maeght Art Poster
Located in Countryside, IL
Miro Alcohol de Menthe Mid Century Galerie Adrien Maeght Art Poster
This framed art poster measures: 25 wide x 1 deep x 31 inches high
This...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Metal
Two Acrylic on Canvas Paintings of Flowers by Dale McFeatters
By Dale McFeatters
Located in Palm Beach, FL
Midcentury flower paintings executed with acrylic on canvas in a bold vibrant style, titled Buttercup and Trout Lilly. Signed McFeatters an...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Aluminum
The Hunt by James Mattison, 36x48, Oil on Wood Canvas, 2024
Located in Deland, FL
James Mattison (1990) is a self-taught fine artist focusing on contemporary impressions of people and his surroundings both of his home in New England and beyond. Born in Portland, M...
Category
2010s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas, Paint
Vintage Color Lithograph in the Trend of Primitivism, Naive Art
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Author unknown
Color lithograph
Work dimensions 53/38
The work is framed
The piece in the trend of primitivism, naive art.
Work in original condition. The frame shows minor signs o...
Category
1980s Unknown Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$685 Sale Price
20% Off
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, ...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Steel
Abstract Midcentury Oil Painting on Board Industrial Scene by F. David Taggart
Located in Sherborne, Dorset
A striking 1960s abstract painting, possibly of a Northern England Industrial street scene. Oil on board signed FD Taggart (British born 1937), with indistinctive title to the back. ...
Category
1960s British Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
M P Marion Mid Century Landscape Mixed Media Collage
Located in Countryside, IL
M P Marion mid century landscape mixed media collage
This collage measures: 22.25 wide x .75 deep x 28.25 inches high
This Collage is in Good Vintage Co...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wood, Paper
Possibly Mixed media original Tiger Art Piece Matted and framed in Antique frame
Located in Seattle, WA
This original Tiger Art piece is in India Import and possibly mixed media. It is matted and framed in an antique frame. This Piece has nice patina and character. Vintage Condition as...
Category
1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wood
Large Enamel Advertising Sign for Player’s Tobacco, 1950
Located in Richmond, Surrey
Large Enamel advertising sign for Player’s tobacco, 1950
Vintage decorative 'Player's' Tobacco enamel advertising sign. Dating from around early 1950s, this is a great example, a rar...
Category
1950s British Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Enamel
Gérard Gosselin, Hommage à Lorca, Color Lithograph, 1986, Framed
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Gérard Gosselin, Hommage à Lorca, 1986
Color lithograph
E.A. number XIV/L
This work is signed by the artist and has an individual title, number and date (pencil)
Work dimensions 72/5...
Category
1980s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$906 Sale Price
20% Off
Jenny Kee Hand Knitted Wool Cardigan, Australia, circa 1980
Located in Pymble, NSW
A beautiful hand-knitted wool cardigan by Jenny Kee, with original label and in almost unused condition. Purchased from Jenny in circa 1980 from her studio i...
Category
1980s Australian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wool
Set of Five Engraved English Silver Decorative Plates by Bernard Buffet
Located in London, GB
Set of sterling silver plates engraved and signed by Bernard Buffet dated from 1973-1978.
Gazelle, Panda, Giraffe, Lion and Rhinoceros.
Each one in fitted wooden display case, wit...
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Silver
Josef Albers "Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 31
By Josef Albers
Located in Chicago, IL
JOSEF ALBERS (1888 – 1976)
"Formulation : Articulation" Portfolio II, Folder 31
Screen-printed geometric composition printed by Ives Stillman, Inc., New Haven, CT.
From the set of 12...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Mid-Century Modern Cubist Signed Watercolor by William Henry Custom Framed
Located in North Miami, FL
This Mid-Century Modern one of a kind horizontal watercolor by William Henry is a combination of cubist individual faces with African influences...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Plexiglass, Wood, Paint, Paper
Dish by Alexandre Kostanda - Glazed ceramic stoneware decorated
Located in Uccle, BE
Dish by Alexandre Kostanda, glazed ceramic stoneware decorated with a stylized bird.
Very large ceramic dish decorated with a bird and flowers.
The body of the bird incised, decorate...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic, Stoneware
Armin Sandig, Schlümpfe, Color Etching, 1987, Framed
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Armin Sandig, Schlümpfe, 1987
Color etching
Work signed by the artist, dated and has individual title (pencil)
Work dimensions 52/67
Framed work
Armin Sandig (1929 - 2015) was a Ger...
Category
1980s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$810 Sale Price
20% Off
William Alexander Drake (Am., 1891-1979) Oil On Artist Board, Garden Landscape
Located in Bridgeport, CT
Signed, labeled and dated August, 1973 on verso. A sunny summer day featuring the garden of the artist in golden tones with flowers planted along a fence along with two trees. A thic...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Wood, Paint
Maurizio Bini, Etching on paper, 1960s, Framed
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Maurizio Bini, 1960s
Etching on paper
Number II/X
The work is signed by the artist and individually numbered (pencil)
Work dimensions 72/52
The work is framed
Maurizio Bini was born...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$714 Sale Price
20% Off
P. Stein 1977 Eggplant Purple and Lavender Square Abstract Color Field Painting
Located in Chattanooga, TN
This richly textured abstract Color Field painting presents a brooding field of deep eggplant purple with lavender and periwinkle tones breaking through the darkness. The layered, cr...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Canvas, Wood, Paint
Color Lithograph by Cyr Frimout, Man with two heads, Framed
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Cyr Frimout, Man with two heads, 1990s
Color lithograph
The work is signed by the artist (pencil)
Work dimensions 98/67
The work is framed
Cyr Frimout was born in 1938. He is a Belg...
Category
1990s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$1,913 Sale Price
20% 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
$801 Sale Price
20% Off
Rosario Calì, Cromatismo Ermetico, Mixed Media on Paper, 1970s, Framed
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Rosario Calì, Cromatismo Ermetico, 1970s
Mixed technique
The work is signed by the artist
Work dimensions 52/37
The work is framed
Rosario Calì was born in 1943. He's an Italian art...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$801 Sale Price
20% Off
Felipe Delfinger Sun Catcher Art Glass Hanging
Located in San Francisco, CA
Felipe Delfinger bohemian art glass Sun Catcher, U.S.A. Beautiful wall hanging or window art in wrought iron and blown glass.
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Iron
Michael Casford, Norwegian Word, Color Lithography, Framed
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Michael Casford, Norwegian Word
Color lithography
This work is signed by the artist and has the title and signature P.T (pencil)
Sheet dimensions 60/47
Framed work
Michael John Casf...
Category
1980s Norwegian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$954 Sale Price
20% Off
Mid-Century French Black & Brown Majolica Oyster, circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
French black & brown Majolica oyster, circa 1950.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Peder Duke, Komposition, Color Serigraphy, 1989, Framed
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Peder Duke, Composition, 1989
Color serigraphy
Number 53/200
The work is signed with the artist's signature, date and an individual number (pencil)
Sheet dimensions 66/58
Framed work...
Category
1980s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$1,146 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Brutalist Brass Cross
Located in Milano, IT
Rare brass cross designed by Arnaldo Pomodoro and his brother Giò Pomodoro in the 1950s, of fine Italian manufacture. It is part of the V/58/16 model.
The...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Brass
$2,398 Sale Price
20% Off
Black and red composition, Vintage Color Lithograph, Framed
Located in Warszawa, Mazowieckie
Author unknown, Black and red composition
Color lithograph
The work is signed by the artist
Work dimensions 70/79
The work is framed
Work in original vintage condition. It has a sig...
Category
1970s Unknown Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
$954 Sale Price
20% Off
Decorative Plates Kaiser Wall Porcelain Plates Kaiser Porcelain
By Kaiser
Located in Bastogne, BE
Decorative collection plates from the finest bone china from the famous German manufactory Kaiser (Kaiser).
Series “Classical lullabies of the wor...
Category
1980s German Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Porcelain
Schumacher by Peg Norriss Steps Wallpaper Mural in Rose & Camel
By Schumacher
Located in New York, NY
Peg Norriss—the brainchild of designer Barrie Benson and gallerist Chandra Johnson—works with leading contemporary artists to create showstopping wallpapers. A mesmerizing, loosely abstracted two-panel pattern by fine artist Jackie Gendel...
Category
2010s American Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Mid-Century French Black & Green Majolica Oyster, circa 1950
Located in Austin, TX
French black & green majolica oyster, circa 1950.
Category
1950s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Ceramic
Signed "Reflections" Silhouette Serigraph Framed Art, Judith Hendler, USA, 1980s
By Judith Hendler
Located in Deland, FL
Introducing a signed silhouette serigraph embossed artwork by Judith Hendler produced by the lauded Hollywood-based WW Graphics. Intricately made of layered embossed paper this piece...
Category
1980s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Vintage Swedish Engineering Educational Diagram Poster
Located in Atlanta, GA
Vintage Swedish engineering educational or instructional diagram printed as a poster on cardboard. String hanger.
Category
1950s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Decorative Art
Materials
Paper
Mid-century Modern decorative art for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Mid-Century Modern decorative art 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 decorative art created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include wall decorations, serveware, ceramics, silver and glass, decorative objects and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with wood, ceramic and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Mid-Century Modern decorative art made in a specific country, there are Europe, North America, and United States pieces for sale on 1stDibs. While there are many designers and brands associated with original decorative art, popular names associated with this style include Robert Picault, Curtis Jeré, Vallauris, and Daniel Clesse. 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 decorative art differ depending upon multiple factors, including designer, materials, construction methods, condition and provenance. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $50 and tops out at $406,322 while the average work can sell for $1,323.