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Midcentury Mexican Modernist Salvador Teran Decorative Tray, 1950s
By Salvador Teran
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Mid-Century Modernist decorative tray.
by, Salvador Teran.
Mexico, 1950s
Measures: 14 1/4" H x
Category
Mid-20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Decorative Dishes and Vide-P...
Modernist Abstract Marble Sculpture
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Modernist abstract marble sculpture.
Category
Vintage 1970s Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Modernist Steel Table Sculpture
Located in New York, NY
1970s modernist steel table sculpture. "Signed".
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Cut Steel
Modernist Pewter Box with Bakelite Accent by GAB, 1930s Sweden
By GAB Guldsmedsaktiebolaget
Located in Stockholm, SE
rectangular form rests on four decorative feet, while the lid features a distinctive modernist accent
Category
Vintage 1930s Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Pewter
Modernist Carved Stone Sculpture
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A modernist carved stone sculpture, originating in England, circa 1940.
Category
Vintage 1940s English Modern Abstract Sculptures
Pair of Modernist Candelabra
Located in New York, NY
Pair of modernist silver-plate scrolling candelabra with three bobeches each.
Category
Vintage 1940s American Candle Holders
Modernist Carved Wood Bear
Located in Fairfield, CA
A vintage carved ironwood polar bear. Great simplified modernist form with a lovely dark natural
Category
Late 20th Century Organic Modern Animal Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Scandinavian Modernist Glass Sculpture
Located in Astoria, NY
Modernist glass sculpture from Scandinavia. Shaped like a cube in clear and blue glass. Centered is
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20th Century Scandinavian Scandinavian Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Glass
Modernist Abstract Steel Sculpture
Located in San Mateo, CA
Modernist steel sculpture with an Alexander Calder influence. Intersecting cut out steel planes
Category
Late 20th Century American Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Cut Steel
Large Modernist Brass Swan
Located in Pasadena, CA
in an elegant and graceful modernist style. It would act as a great counterpoint to almost any design
Category
Late 20th Century Streamlined Moderne Animal Sculptures
Materials
Brass
Modernist Abstract Stone Sculpture
Located in Hudson, NY
This is a mid-century modernist abstract red sandstone sculpture. Beautifully hand carved and
Category
Mid-20th Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Sandstone
Modernist Wall Sculpture, 1966
Located in Antwerp, BE
A modernist wall sculpture composed of hand thrown glazed tiles in a variety of shades of brown and
Category
Vintage 1960s Belgian Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Ceramic
Modernist Granite Sculpture Vintage
Located in North Miami, FL
This amazing vintage modernist heavy granite sculpture has cubist forms. The granite has veins of
Category
Vintage 1980s Unknown Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Granite
Group of Modernist Sculptures
Located in Atlanta, GA
Group of Modernist Sculptures, American, circa 1960's.
From left to right, they are:
1) The
Category
Vintage 1960s American Mid-Century Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Brass
$2,800 / set
A Modernist "2 Figures" Bronze Sculpture by Ken Glenn
Located in Palm Desert, CA
A beautiful rendering of 2 abstracted figures sculpted in Bronze and finished with a liver brown patina. Mounted on original Walnut base. Original gallery reciept accompanies purch...
Category
20th Century American Sculptures
Mid-Century Modernist Exotic Marble Sculpture by Doris Gross
By Doris Gross
Located in New York, NY
This hand-carved exotic marble sculpture features an organic free-form design which rests on an ebonized walnut pedestal with a plaque with the artists name Doris Gross hand engraved...
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Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Modernist Ceramic Gold-Plated Crouching Man Sculpture by Jaru
By Jaru
Located in New York, NY
This gold-platted ceramic sculpture features a crouching male figurative sculpture in stylized cubist form. It bears the name Jaru and 1980 on the bottom.
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Paul Kasper California Modernist Studio Artist Cadmium Plated Sculpture
By Paul Kasper
Located in Palm Springs, CA
Cadmium plated steel table sculpture by listed artist Paul Kasper of Whittier, California.
Sculpture measures 25" in height by 20" wide. Unsigned. Acquired directly from the artist's...
Category
Vintage 1950s American Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Modernist Italian 800 Silver Desk/Jewellery Box c.1960
Located in Bath, GB
A great looking box, Italian in origin made from 800 silver wrapped around a wooden interior.
Both the base and lid are hallmarked "800" together with an additional mark "833 F1"....
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver
Teghini, Firenze - Modernist Silver Plated Desk Box c.1970
By Teghini
Located in Bath, GB
A highly collectable silver plated desk box with a novelty lid in the form of the back of an envelope.
Just back from our silversmiths workshop, the box has been fully restored; dee...
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Modernist White Plaster of Paris Sensual Period Sculpture/SALE
Located in North Miami, FL
Jean Arp meets Brancusi in conversation over this tabletop sculpture... who influenced
who for this???. New felt has been placed on the bottom. Sensual ...and has the look of impor...
Category
20th Century American Sculptures
Materials
Plaster, Felt
Fantastic Signed Brancusi-Esque Monumental Abstract Bronze Modernist Sculpture
By Constantin Brancusi 2
Located in North Miami, FL
This wonderful substantial signed polished bronze sculpture is on a black marble square base. It has the form of Brancusi. Simple yet sophisticated.
It is 2/8 edition. The sculptor ...
Category
Vintage 1970s Spanish Modern Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Modernist Bronze Owl Sculpture on Marble by Constantin Antonovici
By Constantin Antonovici
Located in Astoria, NY
A mid century sculpture of an abstracted owl in polished bronze on a white marble base, signed and dated (1976) on the reverse.
Constantin Antonovici was born in Romania in 1911 ...
Category
20th Century American Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
Modernist Floor Clock by George Nelson for Howard Miller
Located in Peabody, MA
Elegant floor clock in chromed steel and smoked Lucite, designed by George Nelson for Howard Miller, ca. 1960s. Melodious chimes on the hour and half-hour. Iconic Nelson clock h...
Category
Vintage 1960s American Clocks
Materials
Chrome
Anita Weschler Original Painted Plaster 1946 Sculpture American Modernist
By Anita Weschler
Located in Chicago, IL
From Anita Weschler's well known group figure sculptures. A rural group of three, a male carrying a log on his back, a nude female holding a flower and a stripped to the waist stand...
Category
Vintage 1940s American Art Deco Sculptures
Beatrice Wofsey Marble Stone Modernist Sculpture 1970
s exhibited 1993
By Beatrice Wofsey
Located in Westport, CT
Circa 1970's free form modernist carved Marble stone sculpture with original exhibition label
Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Jean Despres, Important Box Modernist Art Deco Hammered Silver Metal
By Jean Despres
Located in Boulogne Billancourt, FR
Important box "Modernist" in hammered silver metal by Jean Desprès.
Engraved signature on bottom
Category
Vintage 1930s French Art Deco Decorative Boxes
Materials
Silver Plate
Large Scale Modernist Sculpture in the manner of Alexandre Noll
Located in Atlanta, GA
Large Scale Modernist Sculpture in the manner of Alexandre Noll, circa 1950's, unsigned. At over 4
Category
Vintage 1950s French Sculptures
Materials
Wood
Modernist French Silver Plated Belt
Buckle Box by Maria Pergay
By Maria Pergay
Located in Bath, GB
A highly collectable Mid-Century Modern / modernist box by French designer Maria Pergay in silver
Category
Vintage 1950s French Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Gold Plate, Silver Plate
Modernist Sliver Photo Frame
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A modern photo frame uses two panes of glass to add your favorite photo within the 7" x 7" size. Wonderful addition to the desk, shelf or table full of cherished friends and family!
Category
20th Century Modern Picture Frames
Bronze Abstract Modernist Sculpture
Located in Naples, IT
Patinated bronze sculpture on marble base.
The sculpture represents an open desk pen holder, to represent the momentum of culture and human ingenuity as a futurist concept.
Category
Vintage 1970s Italian Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Marble, Bronze
1970s Modernist Alabaster Sculpture
By Isamu Noguchi
Located in New York, NY
1970s modern alabaster sculpture on chrome base, signed the bottom LM5.
Base width/depth 6''
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Mounted Objects
Materials
Alabaster, Chrome
Modernist Wall Sculpture, 1950s
By Curtis Jeré
Located in The Hague, NL
Beautiful shaped abstract wall art sculpture of flying birds by unknown designer.
Category
Vintage 1950s Unknown Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Materials
Clay, Wood
Modernist Robin
s Egg Blue and Beige Hand Lacquered Wood Box
Located in New York, NY
This handcrafted wood box is produced using the centuries-old tradition of hand pouring several layers of lacquer. Each layer is hand polished over a series of days in order to creat...
Category
Early 2000s American Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Lacquer
Modernist Ceramic Gold Plated Kneeling Abstract Woman Sculpture by Jaru
By Jaru
Located in New York, NY
This gold-plated ceramic sculpture features a stylized kneeling woman in Cubist form. It bears the signature Jaru on the bottom.
Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Italian Modernist Glass Sculpture in the Shape of a Head
Located in New York, NY
Amazing head, "very expressive" mouth blown sculpture in opaline white Murano glass on a round black glass base, this item is individually crafted and this production attributed to ...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Sculptures
Materials
Murano Glass
Italian Modernist Glass Sculpture in the Shape of a Head
Located in New York, NY
Amazing head, "very expressive" mouth blown sculpture in Murano glass worked with an iridescent finish on a round black iridescent glass base, this item is individually crafted and t...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Sculptures
Italian Modernist Glass Sculpture in the Shape of a Head
Located in New York, NY
Amazing head, "very expressive" mouth blown sculpture in a deep black opaline overlaid in clear Murano glass, the reflection of the light creates amethyst glowing streaks. On a round...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Sculptures
Mid Century Modernist Abstract Gilt Metal Sculpture by Ruth Russ
Located in Astoria, NY
An abstract sculpture in heavy gilt metal on a black lacquered wood base. The piece is an abstracted depiction of two kneeling figures next to one another and is signed Ruth R. Russ ...
Category
20th Century American Sculptures
Materials
Metal
Abstract Modernist Sculpture Carved in Concrete by Beyerly, Dated 1978
Located in Peabody, MA
Abstract biomorphic sculpture carved in concrete, signed Beyerly and dated 1978. Sold with a (hollowed) concrete pedestal.
Pedestal measures 11" square and 39.75" high. Sculpture ...
Category
Vintage 1970s American Sculptures
Materials
Concrete
Mid-Century Modernist Tessellated Abalone
Sculptural Brass
Copper Crab Box
Located in New York, NY
This captivating mid-century modern crab box showcases a masterful blend of natural materials and artistic design. The surface is meticulously tessellated with iridescent abalone she...
Category
Vintage 1960s Mexican Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Brass, Copper
Italian Modernist Pair of Head Glass Sculptures by Sergio Rossi
By Sergio Rossi
Located in New York, NY
c. 1980 amazing heads, "very expressive" mouth blown sculptures in Murano glass, one in grey fume glass and the other in amethyst glass, on a round black opaline glass base, signed b...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Sculptures
Italian Brutalist Cast Iron Modernist Wall Clock from the 1960s
Located in Vienna, AT
An Italian Brutalist wall clock front the 1960s. Made of cast iron, a very attention-grabbing wall clock. Works perfectly. Very good condition. measurements: 21"/53cm wide, 11"/28cm ...
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Clocks
Sculptural Hand Turned Modernist Wood Vessel Signed A. Boone, d. 1981
By A. Boone
Located in Peabody, MA
vase tip. Hand fashioned in the modernist tradition, signed and dated 1981.
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sculptures
Materials
Rosewood, Maple
Ultra Chic Modernist Mid-Century Silver Plate Box by Christian Dior
By Christian Dior
Located in New York, NY
inspired design reinterpreted in a modernist manner. It also is signed Christian Dior on the bottom.
Category
Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Boxes
Aldo Londi for Raymor Milano Moderna Abstract Italian Modernist Ceramic Box
By Marcello Fantoni
Located in Palm Springs, CA
"Milano Moderna" abstract Italian modernist ceramic box designed by Aldo Londi for Raymor circa
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Ceramic
Modernist Signed French Jean Arp Style Black Marble Abstract Elongated Sculpture
Located in North Miami, FL
From every angle this elongated fantastic French signed abstract modernist sculpture has the
Category
Vintage 1970s French Modern Sculptures
Materials
Marble
Modernist Porcelain Bull Sculpture 1970
s
By (after) Pablo Picasso
Located in San Diego, CA
Elegant modernist black glossy porcelain finish ceramic bull in Picasso style.
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Animal Sculptures
Materials
Porcelain
Modernist Square Lacquered Rectangular Box in Pale Celadon with Tan Accents
Located in New York, NY
This elegant modernist lacquered box offers a square form with a lacquered exterior in a pale
Category
20th Century Philippine Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Fruitwood, Lacquer
Modernist Long Rectangular Lacquer Box with Burled Elm, Walnut
Rosewood Inlay
Located in New York, NY
burled walnut and burled elm separated by a central seam in rosewood. With its clean modernist lines and
Category
20th Century Philippine Modern Decorative Boxes
Materials
Elm, Rosewood, Walnut, Lacquer
Modernist Figure Stone Sculpture Vintage
Located in North Miami, FL
This fabulous seated vintage modernist stone sculpture is abstract. The views change with the
Category
Vintage 1970s American Organic Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone, Composition
Modernist Steel Infinite Stairs Sculpture
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Modernist steel infinite stairs sculpture.
Category
20th Century Unknown Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Modernist Steel Infinite Stairs Sculpture
Located in San Juan Capistrano, CA
Modernist steel infinite stairs sculpture.
Category
20th Century Unknown Modern Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
Large English Midcentury Modernist Sculpture
Located in Kent, Dover
A large English Mid-Century Modernist sculpture in plaster, with a good patina.
Category
Vintage 1950s English Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Plaster
Modernist Carved Stone Abstract Sculpture
Located in Long Island City, NY
Modernist carved stone abstract sculpture, signed A.W. 9-11 mounted on wooden base.
Category
20th Century Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Stone
Modernist Bronze Female Nude Back
Located in Astoria, NY
Modernist wall sculpture in bronze of a nude woman's back torso, apparently unsigned.
Dealer
Category
20th Century Figurative Sculptures
Materials
Bronze
Modernist Abstract Brushed Steel Sculpture
Located in Montreal, QC
Modernist abstract polished steel sculpture resting on a wooden base. Sticker written: "900 Bon 167".
Category
Vintage 1970s Balkan Abstract Sculptures
Materials
Steel
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Modernist Decorative Objects For Sale on 1stDibs
There is a range of modernist decorative objects for sale on 1stDibs. The range of distinct modernist decorative objects — often made from metal, glass and wood — can elevate any home. There are 2617 antique and vintage modernist decorative objects for sale at 1stDibs, while we also have 39 modern editions to choose from as well. Modernist decorative objects have been produced for many years, with earlier versions available from the 18th Century and newer variations made as recently as the 21st Century. Modernist decorative objects bearing Mid-Century Modern or Modern hallmarks are very popular at 1stDibs. There have been many well-made modernist decorative objects over the years, but those made by Carl Auböck, Curtis Jere and Baccarat are often thought to be among the most beautiful.
How Much are Modernist Decorative Objects?
Prices for modernist decorative objects can differ depending upon size, time period and other attributes — at 1stDibs, modernist decorative objects begin at $35 and can go as high as $58,000, while the average can fetch as much as $1,112.
Finding the Right Decorative Objects for You
Every time you move into a house or an apartment — or endeavor to refresh the home you’ve lived in for years — life for that space begins anew. The right home accent, be it the simple placement of a decorative bowl on a shelf or a ceramic vase for fresh flowers, can transform an area from drab to spectacular. But with so many materials and items to choose from, it’s easy to get lost in the process. The key to styling with antique and vintage decorative objects is to work toward making a happy home that best reflects your personal style.
Ceramics are a versatile addition to any home. If you’ve amassed an assortment of functional pottery over the years, think of your mugs and salad bowls as decorative objects, ideal for displaying in a glass cabinet. Vintage ceramic serveware can pop along white open shelving in your dining area, while large stoneware pitchers paired with woven baskets or quilts in an open cupboard can introduce a rustic farmhouse-style element to your den.
Translucent decorative boxes or bowls made of an acrylic plastic called Lucite — a game changer in furniture that’s easy to clean and lasts long — are modern accents that are neutral enough to dress up a coffee table or desktop without cluttering it. If you’re showcasing pieces from the past, a vintage jewelry box for displaying your treasures can spark conversation: Where is the jewelry box from? Is there a story behind it?
Abstract sculptures or an antique vessel for your home library can draw attention to your book collection and add narrative charm to the most appropriate of corners. There’s more than one way to style your bookcases, and decorative objects add a provocative dynamic. “I love magnifying glasses,” says Alex Assouline, global vice president of luxury publisher Assouline, of adding one’s cherished objects to a home library. “They are both useful and decorative. Objects really elevate libraries and can also make them more personal.”
To help with personalizing your space and truly making it your own, find an extraordinary collection of decorative objects on 1stDibs.
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