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Mid-20th Century Large Maple and Oak Drafting Table
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Large drafting table (ca. 1950s, USA) composed of a maple surface with gray and brown painted trim
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Steel

Vintage Mid Century Modern Small Brass Architects Drafting Desk Lamp by Electrix
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Vintage Mid Century Modern Small Brass Articulating Architects Drafting Desk Lamp by Electrix
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Late 20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal, Brass

Mid-Century Red Industrial Clamp on Drafting Lamp
By Napako
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mid -Century Industrial clamp on drafting lamps with red aluminum shade and chrome adjustable stem
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Vintage 1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal, Chrome

Mid-Century Ate van Apeldoorn Style Adjustable Pine Drafting Table/Desk
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Mid-century pine drafting or writing desk. Perfect for sketching with an adjustable top that can be
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Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Pine

Rico Baltensweiler Swiss Architect Mid-Century Drafting Table Desk Lamp
By Rosemarie Rico Baltensweiler
Located in Hyattsville, MD
A Rare 1950s Articulated Lamp, by Rico & Rosemary Baltensweiler. Highly Articulate Lamp, most adjustable we have ever used!!
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Vintage 1950s Swiss Scandinavian Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Aluminum, Chrome, Steel

Mid-Century Red Industrial Clamp on Drafting Lamp
By Napako
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Industrial clamp on drafting lamps with red aluminum shade and chrome adjustable stem. Attributed
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Vintage 1960s Czech Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal, Chrome

Architect/ Drafting Red Pine Table
Located in Pasadena, CA
Vintage French architect’s or drafting table with an adjustable drawing surface which may be set at
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Industrial and Work Tables

Materials

Pine

Vintage Mayline Architect Drafting Table Desk with Chair
Located in West Hartford, CT
1950's/60's Mid-century architect drafting table. Solid oak with metal base and cast iron hardware
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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Steel

Dutch Modern Reply Drafting Table Set By Wim Rietveld And Friso Kramer
By Ahrend de Cirkel, Friso Kramer, Wim Rietveld
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Ahrend de Cirkel in 1963. This sturdy mid-century modern drafting set is a distinctive and timeless
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Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Industrial and Work Tables

Materials

Steel

Walnut Lift Top Desk Drafting Table
By George Nelson, Knoll
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Very nice Mid-Century Modern lift top desk drafting writing table.
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20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Metal

Swiss Architectural Drafting Table Switzerland, 1970
By Franco Albini
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Fantastic shaped adjustable architectural drafting table made by unknown manufacturer or designer
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Vintage 1970s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Industrial and Work Tables

Materials

Pine

Rietveld and Kramer "Reply" Drafting Table
By Wim Rietveld, Ahrend de Cirkel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wim Rietveld "REPLY" drafting table, with collaborative hinging mechanism by Friso Kramer for
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Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Metal

Wim Rietveld Friso Kramer Drafting Table, 1963
By Wim Rietveld, Ahrend de Cirkel
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Ingenious drafting table designed by Wim Rietveld and Friso Kramer for Ahrend de Cirkel, Holland
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Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Industrial and Work Tables

Materials

Metal

Vintage Industrial Architect s Drafting Table Sautereau c.1960 or Kitchen Island
Located in Labrit, Landes
Complete Architch's drafting table midcentury With all drawing accessories Can be used as a
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Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Center Tables

Materials

Steel

Vintage Mayline Adjustable Trestle Base Drafting Drawing Easel Table
Located in Dayton, OH
Vintage Mayfield Company Inc. industrial drafting table or architectural desk with wooden trestle
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Mid-20th Century Industrial Dessert Tables and Tilt-top Tables

Materials

Metal

Wm. Rietveld and Friso Kramer "Reply" Drafting Table
By Wim Rietveld, Friso Kramer, Ahrend de Cirkel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Wm Rietveld "REPLY" Drafting Table, the hinging mechanism was a collaborative design by Friso
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Vintage 1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Metal

Jacques Seeuws Drafting Table and Chair for Swan
By Jacques Seeuws, Swan Deinze
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Designed in 1959, this drafting set was originally produced for use in the architecture school at
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Vintage 1950s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Steel

Dutch Reply Architect Drafting Table Friso Kramer, Wim Rietveld Ahrend 1959
By Wim Rietveld, Friso Kramer, Ahrend de Cirkel
Located in Boven Leeuwen, NL
Reply Dutch Design Architect drafting table designed by Wim Rietveld and Friso Kramer for Ahrend de
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Vintage 1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Steel

Very Rare Reiger Drafting Table Friso Kramer Ahrend de Cirkel, 1963
By Friso Kramer, Ahrend de Cirkel
Located in Boven Leeuwen, NL
Very rare drafting table "Reiger" designed by Friso Kramer for Ahrend de Cirkel in 1963. The
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Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Metal

Desk or Drafting Table by Joe Colombo for Bieffeplast, Italy, 1970s
By Joe Colombo, Bieffeplast
Located in Antwerp, BE
Desk or drafting table by Joe Colombo for Bieffeplast, Italy, 1970s. This desk is in a very good
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Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Metal

Wim Rietveld Friso Kramer Architectural Drafting Table and Chair, Ahrend, 1958
By Friso Kramer, Wim Rietveld
Located in Buffalo, NY
Wim Rietveld & Friso Kramer architectural drafting table and chair, ahrend 1958, Classic design
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Vintage 1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Steel

XL Dutch Reply Architect Drafting Table Friso Kramer, Wim Rietveld Ahrend, 1959
By Ahrend de Cirkel, Friso Kramer, Wim Rietveld
Located in Boven Leeuwen, NL
Reply Dutch Design Architect drafting table designed by Wim Rietveld and Friso Kramer for Ahrend de
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Vintage 1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Steel

Set Reply Architect Drafting Table Friso Kramer, Wim Rietveld Ahrend de Cirkel
By Ahrend de Cirkel, Friso Kramer, Wim Rietveld
Located in Boven Leeuwen, NL
Complete set Reply Dutch Design Architect drawing / drafting table designed by Wim Rietveld and
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Vintage 1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Steel

Wim Rietveld and Friso Kramer "Reply" Drafting Table by Ahrend de Cirkel
By Ahrend de Cirkel, Wim Rietveld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
"Reply" drafting table by Wim Rietveld for Ahrend de Cirkel in 1958. The hinging mechanism was a
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Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Metal

Hala Zeist Aluminum and Black Drafting Lamp
By Hala Zeist
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Black and chrome Hala Zeist drafting task lamp with lack enameled base and articulating arm. In
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Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Aluminum, Metal, Steel

Reply Drafting Table by Wim Rietveld and Friso Kramer for Ahrend de Cirkel
By Ahrend de Cirkel, Friso Kramer, Wim Rietveld
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Scandinavinan modern, architects, drawing/drafting table by Wim Rietveld and Friso Kramer for
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Mid-20th Century Dutch Scandinavian Modern Industrial and Work Tables

Materials

Metal

Reply Drafting Table by Friso Kramer and Wim Rietveld for Ahrend, Dutch design
By Ahrend de Cirkel, Friso Kramer, Wim Rietveld
Located in Steenwijk, NL
This 'Reply' drafting table was designed by Friso Kramer and Wim Rietveld for Ahrend de Cirkel in
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Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Industrial and Work Tables

Materials

Metal

Mid-Century Hala Style Desk Lamp
By Hala Zeist
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Drafting Style Enameled Blue Grey Metal and Chrome Desk Lamp with Weighted Base.
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Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal, Chrome

1970s table M1, Stefan Wewerka
By Stefan Wewerka
Located in Neuss, NW
Versatile table in Bauhaus design. Model M1 by Stefan Wewerka for Tecta. Draft from 1979. High
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Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Tables

Materials

Ash

Mid-Century Teak Steel Executive Desk by Friso Kramer Coen de Vries for Eeka
By Coen de Vries, Friso Kramer, EEKA
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pyramid chair (LU922433965102) and a Mid-Century drafting lamp, both listed separately. There is an ink
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Mid-20th Century Dutch Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Steel

George Nelson Action Office Drafting table for Herman Miller
By Herman Miller, George Nelson
Located in Kalamazoo, MI
Drafting height desk from George Nelson Associates’ Action office group by Herman Miller. Lockable
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desks

Materials

Aluminum

Post Modern Giant Brass Floor Lamp Luxo Articulating Architect Drafting Light
By Luxo
Located in BROOKLYN, NY
articulating arm with heavy base. An oversized mid-century modern brass floor Lamp Drafting Architect’s Lamp
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Vintage 1970s American Post-Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Brass

Articluted Swiss Table Lamp by Rico and Rosemary Baltensweiler
By Rosemarie Rico Baltensweiler
Located in Vienna, AT
Rico & Rosemary Baltensweiler Architect Midcentury Drafting Table Desk Lamp in very good condition.
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Vintage 1950s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Vintage Giant Brass Floor Drafting Lamp
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A Mid-Century Modern vintage brass floor drafting/architect's lamp in the style of Luxo. Brass
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Late 20th Century Post-Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Metal

Lela and Massimo Vignelli Kono coffee table Italy 1979
By Massimo Vignelli
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
and beautiful piece of modern Italian design that could easily adapt a mid-century or modern home or
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Vintage 1970s Mid-Century Modern Coffee and Cocktail Tables

Materials

Carrara Marble, Copper

Desk Writing Table by Helmut MAGG for Vereinigte Werkstätten, 1950s
By Helmut Magg, Deutsche WK-Möbel
Located in Telgte, DE
Desk writing table by Helmut MAGG for Vereinigte Werkstätten Shapely desk after a draft by Helmut
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Vintage 1950s German Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Wood

Mid-Century Modern Sculptural Adjustable Stool for Work Draftsman
Located in Port Jervis, NY
Fabulous adjustable custom made stool for a drafting table or work table. Adjusts in height from 25
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Office Chairs and Desk Chairs

Materials

Steel

Italian Midcentury Green Adjustable Clamp Task Desk Lamp Stilnovo Style, 1950s
By Stilnovo
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your pleasure: Mid-Century Modern Stilnovo Style adjustable clamp desk table lamp in green
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Table Lamps

Materials

Metal, Chrome

621 Nesting pair, Dieter Rams, Vitsoe
By Vitsoe, Dieter Rams
Located in Neuss, NW
Nesting pair 621 by Dieter Rams for Vitsoe based on a draft from 1962. High-quality injection
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Vintage 1960s German Mid-Century Modern Nesting Tables and Stacking Tables

Materials

Plastic

Prototype Luigi Colani Rappelkiste from Elbro 1st Edition Private Collection
By Elbro, Luigi Colani
Located in Munster, NRW
Rappelkiste German design by Luigi Colani for Elbro/ August Ellerbrok. Draft of 1975. Frame of solid of
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Vintage 1970s German Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Modernist Jens Risom Floating Executive Desk in Peruvian Walnut
By Jens Risom
Located in Buffalo, NY
Stunning Mid-Century Modern executive desk designed by Jens Risom. Desk has all of the ammenities
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Stainless Steel

George Nelson Desk for Herman Miller
By George Nelson, Herman Miller
Located in Los Angeles, CA
20th century modernist furniture. Nelson met with some early recognition while still an
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Steel, Chrome

1970s Luxo XL Brass Floor Lamp Modern Articulating Light
By Luxo
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1970s Brass Floor Light Drafting Architect's Articulating Lamp by LUXO Brass articulating arm with
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Vintage 1970s Norwegian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Aluminum, Brass, Steel

Lounge Chair by H.W. Klein Attributed for Bramin, Denmark, 1960s
By H.W. Klein, Bramin Mobler
Located in Utrecht, NL
chairs, tables, and sideboards are characteristic of the postwar Danish modern aesthetic, typically
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Vintage 1960s Danish Mid-Century Modern Lounge Chairs

Materials

Leather, Teak

Architects Balance Lamp with Shade
Located in Peekskill, NY
shade is over 36 inches in diameter and was designed to reflect a pleasing even light over a drafting
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Mid-20th Century Modern Chandeliers and Pendants

Materials

Steel

French Architects Balance Lamp
Located in Peekskill, NY
shade is over 36 inches in diameter and was designed to reflect a pleasing even light over a drafting
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Mid-20th Century French Modern Chandeliers and Pendants

Italian Midcentury adjustable Architects Brass plated Floorlamp
By Luxo
Located in Vienna, AT
This charming Italian Midcentury Architects Drafting floor lamp has been designed in Italy in the
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Floor Lamps

Materials

Metal, Brass

Carlo De Carli D154 chest of drawers by Sormani, Italy, 1963
By Sormani, Carlo di Carli
Located in Chiavari, Liguria
drafting table to inhabit the world. The D154 piece and other architectural works of the period can be
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Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests of Drawers

Materials

Brass

1958 Ronald Markman Whimsical Figural Entertainers Etching New Haven 18"
Located in Dayton, OH
Benny, Fred Allen, and Edgar Bergen on the radio while doodling or drawing at his kitchen table. He
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Vintage 1950s Prints

Materials

Paper

Mid-Century Modern Industrial Hydraulic Adjustable Drafting Table by Belmont
By Belmont
Located in Lafayette, IN
Wonderful Mid-Century Modern adjustable hydraulic drafting table by Belmont. Table is equipped
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Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Tables

Materials

Steel

Rare 1970s Mid-Century Modern Sculpted American Studio Craft Drafting Table
Located in Lafayette, IN
Wonderful handcrafted drafting table in the Studio Craft style. Table features a sculpted laminated
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Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Tables

Materials

Walnut

Swiss Mid-Century Modern Steel and Cherry Console or Drafting Table by Embru
By Embru
Located in New York, NY
Swiss Mid-Century modernist adjustable use table useful as console, writing table or drafting table
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Vintage 1950s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Console Tables

Materials

Steel

Charming , diminutive desk / drafting table, , Classic Modernist Design.. Storage
By Modern Age
Located in Buffalo, NY
Charming ,diminutive desk / drafting table,,Classic Modernist Design.. Art Storage .. Wonderful
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Industrial and Work Tables

Materials

Metal

Danish Modern Drafting Table by Mobelfabriken Trekanten
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Danish modern, height and tilt adjustable, teak drafting table by Mobelfabriken Trekanten features
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Mid-20th Century Danish Scandinavian Modern Industrial and Work Tables

Materials

Teak

Vintage Mayline Drafting Table
Located in Pasadena, TX
This vintage drafting table is a larger model manufactured by Mayline. Oak with cast iron hardware
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Industrial and Work Tables

Materials

Oak

1950s Industrial Drafting Table
By Wim Rietveld
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Metal framed adjustable drafting table from the 1950s with supplies tray. This drafting table has
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Vintage 1950s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Desks and Writing Tables

Materials

Metal

Mayline Vintage Drafting Table
Located in South Charleston, WV
. It can be used in reverse for use with very high drafting chairs also. Has been lightly refinished
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Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Industrial and Work Tables

Materials

Steel

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Mid Century Modern Drafting Table For Sale on 1stDibs

With a vast inventory of beautiful furniture at 1stDibs, we’ve got just the mid century modern drafting table you’re looking for. Each mid century modern drafting table for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using metal, wood and steel. Whether you’re looking for an older or newer mid century modern drafting table, there are earlier versions available from the 20th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 20th Century. Each mid century modern drafting table bearing Mid-Century Modern, Scandinavian Modern or Modern hallmarks is very popular. A well-made mid century modern drafting table has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Wim Rietveld, Ahrend de Cirkel and Friso Kramer are consistently popular.

How Much is a Mid Century Modern Drafting Table?

A mid century modern drafting table can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $1,454, while the lowest priced sells for $120 and the highest can go for as much as $4,800.

A Close Look at Mid-century Modern Furniture

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

CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS

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.

Questions About Mid Century Modern Drafting Table
  • 1stDibs ExpertApril 5, 2022
    Yes, the tulip table is considered a mid-century modern design. This table shape has become an iconic statement of the era with a simple sculptural attitude and a practical nature. The first tulip table was created by Eero Saarinen, a noted Finnish designer who was a leader in mid-century modern home decor. Shop a collection of Saarinen furniture from some of the world’s top sellers on 1stDibs.