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Midcentury Walnut Slab Modernist Case Sofa by Otmar - After Milo Baughman
By Otmar, Milo Baughman, Thayer Coggin
Located in Decatur, GA
Stellar midcentury modern walnut slab case sofa by maker Otmar. Sophisticated design, superior
Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Fabric, Walnut
Contemporary Modernist Sculptural Left Facing Aspen Sofa by Cassina Italy Gray
By Cassina
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is a Minimalist, yet sculptural left facing "Aspen" sofa, by Italian
Category
Early 2000s Italian Sofas
Materials
Fabric
Contemporary Modernist Dellarobbia Pair of Oatmeal Taupe Sofas Made in USA
By DellaRobbia
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is a magnificent pair of sofas, made in the USA, by Dellarobbia. In
Category
Late 20th Century American Sofas
Materials
Fabric
Contemporary Modernist Pair of Sculptural Left Facing Aspen Sofas Cassina, Italy
By Cassina
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is a Minimalist, yet sculptural pair of left facing "Aspen" sofas, by
Category
Early 2000s Italian Sofas
Materials
Fabric
Contemporary Modernist Dellarobbia Pair of Oatmeal Taupe Sofas Made in USA
By DellaRobbia
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is a magnificent pair of sofas, made in the USA, by Dellarobbia. In
Category
Late 20th Century American Sofas
Materials
Fabric
Contemporary Modernist Hans DUX Gray Sofa Made in Sweden 1990s Scandinavian
By Dux of Sweden
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is a gorgeous sofa, with a soft and comfortable gray fabric, by Swedish
Category
1990s Swedish Sofas
Materials
Fabric
Contemporary Modernist Casara Modern Sofa McCobb Dunbar Style Gray Fabric
Wood
By Paul McCobb
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is an incredible sofa, upholstered in gray fabric and with wood accents, in
Category
Late 20th Century Sofas
Materials
Fabric
Vladimir Kagan Pair of Mirrored “Zoe” Sofas, American Leather, Organic Modernist
By American Leather, Vladimir Kagan
Located in St.Petersburg, FL
Wonderful mirrored pair of sofas designed by Vladimir Kagan for American Leather. Both are in
Category
Early 2000s American Organic Modern Sofas
Materials
Ultrasuede
Classic Scandinavian Modernist 4-seat walnut sofa after I b Kofod Larsen
By Ib Kofod-Larsen
Located in Buffalo, NY
Scandinavian Modernist 4-seat walnut sofa after I b Kofod Larsen,, Wonderful sculptural walnut
Category
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Sofas
Materials
Fabric, Walnut
1970’s Jean Gillon for Probel Brazilian Modernist Rosewood and Leather Sofa
By Probel, Jean Gillon
Located in Lutz, FL
1970’s Brazilian Modernist Taupe Leather and Rosewood Sofa designed by Jean Gillon for Probel. 3
Category
Mid-20th Century Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Metal
Mid-Century Modernist Bent-Arm Sofa in the Manner of Dunbar, American
By Dunbar Furniture
Located in New York, NY
Ultra chic Mid-Century Modernist bent-arm sofa in the manner of Dunbar American, the simple yet
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Fabric, Wool, Upholstery, Walnut
Early Modernist Jens Risom for Knoll Three Cushion Black
Beige 88" Sofa
By Knoll, Jens Risom
Located in Bainbridge, NY
late 1940's streamlined, minimalist 3 plus seat Sofa attributed to Jens
Risom for Knoll
Category
Vintage 1950s American Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Fabric, Walnut
Contemporary Modernist Pair of Sofas
Chair Set Tobia Scarpa B&B Italia Erasmo
By Tobia Scarpa
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is a terrific and comfortable pair of sofas and matching chair, Erasmo by
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Sofas
Materials
Fabric
Contemporary Modernist Sculptural Serpentine Sofa Sectional Kagan Style, 1980s
By Vladimir Kagan
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is a sculptural, serpentine sofa sectional, in the style of Vladimir Kagan
Category
Vintage 1980s American Sectional Sofas
Materials
Fabric
Vintage De Sede
DS 2011
Modernist Two-Seater Sofa in Beige Leather, 1980s
By De Sede
Located in Zagreb, HR
Organically shaped modernist vintage sofa bench or loveseat, model DS-2011 by De Sede.
Stunning
Category
Vintage 1980s Swiss Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Leather
Mid-Century Modernist Channel Form Cloud Sofa in Holly Hunt Fabric by A Rudin
By A. Rudin
Located in New York, NY
This sleek, playful, and beautifully proportioned Mid-Century Modernist Channel Form Cloud Sofa in
Category
Vintage 1980s American Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Fabric
Luxe Modernist Sectional Sofa with Biscuit Tufting in Grey Velvet
Located in New York, NY
Luxe Modernist sectional sofa with biscuit tufting and formed back cushions all upholstered in a
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Sectional Sofas
Contemporary Modernist Ekornes L Shaped Leather Sectional Sofa Norway w Ottoman
By Ekornes Stressless
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is a ravishing sectional sofa with leather upholstery Ekornes Norway. In
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Norwegian Sectional Sofas
Materials
Leather
Contemporary Modernist Ekornes L Shaped Leather Sectional Sofa Norway w Ottoman
By Ekornes Stressless
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is a ravishing sectional sofa with leather upholstery Ekornes Norway. In
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Norwegian Sectional Sofas
Materials
Leather
Contemporary Modernist 3-Piece High Back Curved Sectional Sofa Adler Style
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
For your consideration is a magnificent, three-piece, curved, high backed sectional sofa in a dove
Category
Late 20th Century Sectional Sofas
Materials
Fabric
Stendig Sofa
By Charles Stendig
Located in Westport, CT
Modernist s custom sofa.
Category
Vintage 1960s American Sofas
$16,000
GONDOLA SOFA BY ADRIAN PEARSALL
Located in Los Angeles, CA
MODERNIST GONDOLA SOFA.
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Sofas
Materials
Metal
Gondola Sofa by Adrian Pearsall
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Modernist Italian Gondola sofa by Adrian Pearsall.
Category
20th Century Italian Sofas
Materials
Bronze
1970s French Brown Leather Sofa
Located in High Point, NC
A two-seat brown leather sofa from 1970s, France. Proud curves give this sofa a smooth, modernist
Category
Vintage 1970s French Sofas
Materials
Leather
Percival Lafer Vintage Leather Sofa
By Percival Lafer
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Extremely comfortable long sofa with catcher's mitt style leather cushion wrapped around a stunning
Category
Vintage 1960s Brazilian Mid-Century Modern Sofas
20th Century German Leather Sofa
Located in High Point, NC
A love-seat with a Modernist twist, this vintage leather sofa effortlessly blends style and comfort
Category
20th Century German Sofas
Materials
Leather
Mid Century 1960s Italian Sofa
Located in London, London
overall modernist aesthetic.
The sofa stands on thin, black metal legs, which are tapered and angled
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Steel
Barrel Back Sofa by Ward Bennett
By Ward Bennett, Brickel Associates
Located in Sagaponack, NY
A modernist and sculptural barrel back sofa having tapered arms floating on a satin aluminum double
Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Aluminum
20th Century Spanish Sofa in Mahogany Wood
Located in Vicoforte, Piedmont
Modernist Spanish sofa. Furniture carved in mahogany with golden profiles decorated with floral
Category
Early 20th Century Spanish Art Nouveau Sofas
Materials
Fabric, Mahogany
LC3 Corbusier Jeanneret Perriand Style Cassina Sofa
By Cassina
Located in Hopewell, NJ
Iconic mid century design by the Le Corbuiser group, whose modernist response to the traditional
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Chrome
DS14 De Sede 20th Century Leather Sofa
By De Sede
Located in High Point, NC
Hand-made in Switzerland by renowned furniture manufacturers De Sede, this Modernist leather sofa
Category
20th Century Swiss Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Leather
$3,995 / item
Rossi di Albizzate Sleeping Sofa Italy, 1950
By Giuseppe Rossi di Albizzate
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
Nice Italian modernist sleeping sofa made and designed by Rossi di Albizzate, Italy 1950. A very
Category
Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Metal
Elegant and Spare Late 18th c. English Sofa
Located in Greenwich, CT
An unusual and beautiful 18th century English Regency sofa with modernist lines, having narrow arms
Category
20th Century English Sofas
Materials
Brass
Italian Sofa by Serafino Arrighi in White Bouclé
By Serafino Arrighi
Located in Milano, IT
The Serafino Arrighi sofa from the 1960s is an elegant Italian sofa with a modernist design. It
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Bouclé, Wood
Arne Norell Cromwell Sofa, Norell Möbel, Sweden, 1960s
By Arne Norell
Located in London, GB
-honoured, vernacular forms into modernist expression. The Cromwell sofa fits that bill, updating the
Category
Mid-20th Century Swedish Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Leather, Hardwood
Nanna Ditzel Danish Modern Sofa, Soren Willadsen, 1950s
By Soren Willadsen Mobelfabrik, Finn Juhl, Hans J. Wegner, Nanna Ditzel
Located in Raleigh, NC
approachability that set them apart from their more austere modernist contemporaries. This sofa exemplifies her
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Upholstery, Oak
Three Seat Sofa by Milo Baughman for Thayer Coggin
Located in Peabody, MA
Modernist and sculptural three seat sofa by Milo Baughman for Thayer Coggin, ca. 1970s.
Category
Vintage 1970s American Sofas
Materials
Upholstery
Modernist nautilus shape centre seat
Located in Gloucestershire, GB
Modernist nautilus shape centre seat
Category
20th Century Sofas
Three-Seat Sofa designed by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
By Widdicomb Furniture Co., T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A modernist three-seat sofa designed by T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings for Widdicomb, USA, 1950s
Category
Vintage 1950s American Sofas
Materials
Leather, Wood
Art Deco Style Tuxedo Sofa with Carved Fluted Legs
Located in New York, NY
Art Deco style sofa with modernist tuxedo
form. Upholstered in a wool-silk blend
monochrome
Category
20th Century Sofas
Moss Green Velvet and Pitch Pine Three-Seat Sofa
Located in Antwerp, BE
Dutch modernist three-seat couch by an architect from the 1960s
Minimalist and modernist design
Category
Mid-20th Century Sofas
Materials
Velvet, Pine
Three-seater sofa designed by Adriano Piazzesi, 1970s Italy
By Adriano Piazzesi
Located in Tel Aviv-Yafo, Tel Aviv District
strong aesthetic. Piazzesi’s design seamlessly blends comfort with modernist precision, making this sofa
Category
Mid-20th Century Sofas
Materials
Aluminum
Modernist Three-Seat from Denmark, 1960s
Located in Antwerp, BE
Lovely modernist three-seat from Denmark, 1960s. This sofa is made out of oak and has arm rests
Category
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Sofas
Materials
Fabric, Oak, Teak
Party Sofa Designed by Edward Wormley for Dunbar ( pair available )
By Edward Wormley
Located in Dallas, TX
A Classic modernist Chesterfield "Part Sofa" designed by Edward Wormley for Dunbar. Pair
Category
Vintage 1950s Sofas
American Mid-Century Modern Demountable Sofa by Robert Whitley
Located in Manhasset, NY
Original example of a fantastic modernist American studio made sofa by acclaimed craftsman Robert
Category
Vintage 1970s North American Sofas
Materials
Fabric, Walnut
American Mid-Century Modern Demountable Sofa by Robert Whitley
Located in Manhasset, NY
Original example of a fantastic modernist American studio made sofa by acclaimed craftsman Robert
Category
Vintage 1970s North American Sofas
Materials
Fabric, Walnut
Original Vintage Mid-Century Modern Eames Herman Miller Compact Sofa
By Charles Eames, Herman Miller
Located in Buffalo, NY
modernist design, Retains original Herman Miller label. This sofa retains a low profile and an ergonomic
Category
Vintage 1970s American Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Steel, Chrome
Rare Modern Daybed, Sofa by Karl-Erik Ekselius, Sweden, 1960s
By Karl-Erik Ekselius
Located in Antwerp, BE
Vintage midcentury convertible sofa, daybed. The modernist solid oakwood frame can slide outward to
Category
Vintage 1960s Danish Scandinavian Modern Sofas
Materials
Upholstery, Wood
Pierre Paulin Model 442/3 Sofa Artifort the Netherlands 1962
By Artifort, Pierre Paulin
Located in Etten-Leur, NL
sofa an modernist sophisticated look, making it look like the upholstered bodywork has been sculpted
Category
Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Steel
Dick Lookman Lounge Sofa for Bas van Pelt, Holland, 1965
By Artimeta, Dick Lookman
Located in Roosendaal, Noord Brabant
metal and look great in contrast with the grey fabric. Very comfortable modernist lounge sofa in
Category
Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Steel
Italian convertible sofa of Gavina manufacture in white bouclé, label
By Gavina, Dino Gavina
Located in Milano, IT
line and angle. The sofa presents its own label. Solidly crafted in a modernist style, this sofa
Category
Vintage 1960s Italian Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Bouclé, Wood
Modernist Leather Settee by Pacific Green
By Pacific Green
Located in Denton, TX
Rustic modern two-seat sofa made of Eco-friendly Palmwood and New Zealand leather.
Category
Early 2000s Fijian Organic Modern Sofas
Materials
Leather, Palmwood
Sofa "442" by Pierre Paulin for Artifort, the Netherlands, 1960s
By Pierre Paulin, Artifort
Located in Utrecht, NL
legs along the front and back. The chrome bars give this sofa its iconic modernist look, making it look
Category
Vintage 1960s Dutch Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Metal
Scandinavian Midcentury Kofod Larsen Sofa Upholstered in Black and Gold Linen
By Ib Kofod-Larsen
Located in London, GB
Danish 1950s three-seat sofa by Kofod Larsen with a modernist look. This 20th century sofa is
Category
Vintage 1950s Danish Scandinavian Modern Sofas
Materials
Linen
Art Deco Modernist Table, circa 1930s
Located in Devon, England
Very stylish 1930s Art Deco modernist occasional table. Ideal size for modern day use. The open
Category
Mid-20th Century English Art Deco Sofa Tables
Materials
Walnut
Dellarobbia Gray Fabric and Chrome Contemporary Modern Sofa Made in USA
By DellaRobbia
Located in Keego Harbor, MI
A Dellarobbia gray fabric sofa. This lovely contemporary sofa features a very modernist silhouette
Category
Late 20th Century American Sofas
Materials
Metal
Milo Baughman Graphic Three-Seat Sofa for Thayer Coggin, circa 1980
By Thayer Coggin, Milo Baughman
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Milo Baughman designed (3) three-seat sofa couch for Thayer Coggin, featuring the original Thayer
Category
Vintage 1980s American Mid-Century Modern Sofas
Materials
Fabric
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Modernist Sofa For Sale on 1stDibs
At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal modernist sofa for your home. Each modernist sofa for sale was constructed with extraordinary care, often using fabric, wood and metal. There are 138 variations of the antique or vintage modernist sofa you’re looking for, while we also have 5 modern editions of this piece to choose from as well. You’ve searched high and low for the perfect modernist sofa — we have versions that date back to the 20th Century alongside those produced as recently as the 21st Century are available. A modernist sofa is a generally popular piece of furniture, but those created in Mid-Century Modern, Modern and Scandinavian Modern styles are sought with frequency. A well-made modernist sofa has long been a part of the offerings for many furniture designers and manufacturers, but those produced by Cassina, Vladimir Kagan and Milo Baughman are consistently popular.
How Much is a Modernist Sofa?
A modernist sofa can differ in price owing to various characteristics — the average selling price 1stDibs is $4,950, while the lowest priced sells for $700 and the highest can go for as much as $38,000.
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With entire areas of our homes reserved for “sitting rooms,” the value of quality antique and vintage seating cannot be overstated.
Fortunately, the design of side chairs, armchairs and other lounge furniture — since what were, quite literally, the early perches of our ancestors — has evolved considerably.
Among the earliest standard seating furniture were stools. Egyptian stools, for example, designed for one person with no seat back, were x-shaped and typically folded to be tucked away. These rudimentary chairs informed the design of Greek and Roman stools, all of which were a long way from Sori Yanagi's Butterfly stool or Alvar Aalto's Stool 60. In the 18th century and earlier, seats with backs and armrests were largely reserved for high nobility.
The seating of today is more inclusive but the style and placement of chairs can still make a statement. Antique desk chairs and armchairs designed in the style of Louis XV, which eventually included painted furniture and were often made of rare woods, feature prominently curved legs as well as Chinese themes and varied ornaments. Much like the thrones of fairy tales and the regency, elegant lounges crafted in the Louis XV style convey wealth and prestige. In the kitchen, the dining chair placed at the head of the table is typically reserved for the head of the household or a revered guest.
Of course, with luxurious vintage or antique furnishings, every chair can seem like the best seat in the house. Whether your preference is stretching out on a plush sofa, such as the Serpentine, designed by Vladimir Kagan, or cozying up in a vintage wingback chair, there is likely to be a comfy classic or contemporary gem for you on 1stDibs.
With respect to the latest obsessions in design, cane seating has been cropping up everywhere, from sleek armchairs to lounge chairs, while bouclé fabric, a staple of modern furniture design, can be seen in mid-century modern, Scandinavian modern and Hollywood Regency furniture styles.
Admirers of the sophisticated craftsmanship and dark woods frequently associated with mid-century modern seating can find timeless furnishings in our expansive collection of lounge chairs, dining chairs and other items — whether they’re vintage editions or alluring official reproductions of iconic designs from the likes of Hans Wegner or from Charles and Ray Eames. Shop our inventory of Egg chairs, designed in 1958 by Arne Jacobsen, the Florence Knoll lounge chair and more.
No matter your style, the collection of unique chairs, sofas and other seating on 1stDibs is surely worthy of a standing ovation.
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