Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
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
Italian Equestrian Brass Sculptural Bookend in the shape of a Horse Head, 70s
Located in Roma, IT
I am offering for sale a sculptural bookend made in Italy between the 70s and 80s, probably a gift made by, or coming from, an office of the Rome Airports, as is engraved in the arti...
Category
Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Screen by Carlos Hauner e Martin Eisler, Mid-Century Modern Brazilian, 1960s
Located in West Hollywood, CA
This elegant folding screen by Ernesto Hauner exemplifies the designer’s architectural sensibility and refined material language. The minimalist jacarandá frame is articulated with p...
Category
1960s Brazilian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Cane, Rosewood
Pair of Mid-Century Modern Brass Duck Bookends
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Set of Mid-Century Duck Brass Bookends Sculptures
Substantial in size and weight, these solid vintage brass ducks are both form and function. Fabulous pair displayed on a bookshelf ...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Elegant 1950s Danish Rattan Wastebasket by Wengler – Mid-Century Modern Scandina
Located in Lejre, DK
This wastebasket is an elegant example of Danish design from the 1950s, created by the renowned designer Wengler. The basket is made of woven rattan, giving it a natural and lightwei...
Category
1950s Danish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Cane
Sculptural Chrome Jack / Jax Bookend / Paperweight in the Style of Bill Curry
Located in San Diego, CA
Solid chrome sculptural chrome jack / jax bookend, door stop or paperweight the style of Bill Curry for Design Line, circa 1970s. The piece is in good vintage condition with a nice p...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Chrome
$180 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Mid Century Hollywood Regency Brass Pineapple Bookends
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful pair of Hollywood Regency brass pineapple bookends. Beautiful pieces original to the period and style. These sculptural pair adds whimsy a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
$200 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Sculptural Jack / Jax Bookend / Paperweight in the Style of Bill Curry
Located in San Diego, CA
A nice sculptural jack / jax bookend, door stop or paperweight the style of Bill Curry for Design Line, circa 1970s. The piece is in good vintage condition with a nice patina and mea...
Category
Mid-20th Century Taiwanese Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Chrome
$160 Sale Price
20% Off
Small Sculptural Jack / Jax Bookend / Paperweight in the Style of Bill Curry
Located in San Diego, CA
A nice small sculptural jack / jax bookend, door stop or paperweight the style of Bill Curry for Design Line, circa 1970s. The piece is in good vintage condition with a nice patina a...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Iron
$160 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Midcentury Lucite Bookends by Herb Ritts for Astrolite
By Astrolite, Herb Ritts
Located in San Diego, CA
A gorgeous pair of mid-century lucite bookends by Herb Ritts for Astrolite, circa 1970s. The pair are in excellent condition and would make a great addition to any midcentury study o...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Lucite
$300 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pair of Murano Glass Bookends by Luciano Gaspari for Salviati
Located in Hanover, MA
Pair of heavy green and blue Murano glass book ends by maestro Luciano Gaspari, circa 1950.
Born in Venice in 1913. He studied at the Fine Arts Academy of Venice and Bologna, he was a pupil of Virgilio Guidi and Giorgio Morandi. He participated in a number of Biennales.
Luciano Gaspari is a painter who enters into symbiosis with glass production, studies the collections, scientifically verifies the techniques, establishes a deep relationship with great masters such as Alfredo Barbini , Luciano Vistosi , Paolo Martinuzzi, especially Livio Seguso and, later, Pino Signoretto.
Become the artistic director of Salviati in 1955, he plays the role with untiring commitment and rigor.
Characteristic of his approach is a total mastery and an innovative use of traditional techniques, the ability to look to the past to invent the future, but also to use novelties with courage and imagination, or to "force" common use by transforming, for example, simple bottles in sculptures.
He engages in serial productions, in "unique pieces", in sculptures, but also in objects such as plates (including absolutely extraordinary those presented at the '66 Biennale), vases, cups, bottles: in every creation the quality of colors, the balance between brightness, transparency, glows and shadows reveals the intense relationship between the painter's sensitivity and fantasy and a perfect understanding of the potential of glass.
1913. Born in Venice on March 22 in a family of decorators.
1931. After attending the Institute of Art, he made his debut at the collective exhibition of the Opera Bevilacqua La Masa.
1932. He receives the prize for the younger painter at the XVII Venice Biennale.
1933. Student of Virgilio Guidi at the Academy of Fine Arts.
1935. He follows Guidi in Bologna. Here he attends the course of engraving techniques held by Giorgio Morandi, with whom he will remain in correspondence for a long time.
1936. Participates in the Rome Quadriennale and the Venice Biennale.
1937. After completing his studies in Bologna, he returns to Venice.
1938. Participates in the Venice Biennale. 1940. Participates in the Venice Biennale; becomes assistant to Giuseppe...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Murano Glass
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #5535
Rainbow
Patinated Brass Bookends
Located in Glendale, CA
Pair of Carl Auböck model #5535 'Rainbow' patinated brass bookends. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in patinated and polis...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Polished Aluminum Rare Spanish Galleon Ship Sculptures by Hoselton Signed
Located in San Diego, CA
Polished aluminum rare Spanish galleon ships sculpture by Hosleton signed, and numbered made in Canada circa 1970s.
Category
20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Aluminum
$220 Sale Price / set
20% Off
1950s Ben Seibel Abstract Gold Silver Brass Bookend Set
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1950s Ben Seibel Modernist Abstract Gold Silver Bookend Pair
designed by Ben Seibel for Jenfredware
5.5 h x 3.25 d x 5.5 w
Preowned original vintage condition
Refer to listed images
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal, Brass
Mid-century Sculptural Bookends Brass and Wood
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration a vintage modern pair of bookends brass and wood.
No maker information.
Dimensions: 6 w x 5.5 d x 6.75 h
Please visit take a look at our listings, we have an...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
$280 Sale Price / set
20% Off
1950s Ben Seibel Teardrop Brass Flame Bookend Pair
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1950s Ben Seibel Brass Flame Bookend Set
Tear-drop form brass bookends designed by Ben Seibel for Jenfred Ware as part of the Flame series.
listed item is a pair of bookends
7 h x 2....
Category
1950s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Musical Violin and Horn Sculpture Cast Metal Bookends Vintage Circa 1950
s
By Arman
Located in Moreno Valley, CA
Vintage cast metal bookends in musical instruments orchestra violin horn sculpture theme.
Mid-Century Modern Pair of bronze cast metal bookends in the shape of musical instruments.
M...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Pair of Reclining Lion Bookends
Located in Los Angeles, CA
A pair of reclining lion bookends, a stunning pair with the look of limestone, but a composition material. The pair are of good weight for those larger bo...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Composition
Blenko Clear Glass Half Circle Bookends, Pair
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Pair of vintage handmade half circle bookends in solid glass by Blenko. Both with original foil label.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Glass, Art Glass
Pair Mid-Century Modern Beveled Rectangle Lucite Bookends
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Vintage pair of tall, heavy monogramed thick lucite bookends with beautiful beveled edges on aluminum bases. These bookends almost glow when the light hits them. Polished and substan...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Aluminum
Sheik Campaign Style 1970s Brass Studded Leather Trunk on Brass Stand
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Sheik Campaign Style 1970s Brass Studded Leather Trunk on Brass Stand
USA, circa 1970s
Immerse your living space with this 1970s exquisite Sheik Campaign Style Brass Studded Leath...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
$1,160 Sale Price
20% Off
1950s Ben Seibel Copper Clam Shell Bookend Set
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1950s Ben Seibel Copper Clam Shell Bookend Set
Copper bookends designed by Ben Seibel for Jenfredware
5.75 h x 5 w x 4 d
Preowned original vintage condition
Refer to listed images
Category
1950s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Copper
Pair of Midcentury Lucite Bookends by Herb Ritts for Astrolite
By Astrolite, Herb Ritts
Located in San Diego, CA
A gorgeous air of midcentury Lucite bookends by Herb Ritts for Astrolite, circa 1970s. The pair are in excellent condition and would make a great addition to any midcentury study or ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Lucite
$300 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pair of Mid Century Solid Brass Ben Seibel Bookends
By Ben Seibel
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Pair of Solid Brass Mid Century Modern bookends. The light and architectural look is very chic, while holding larger and more substantial books. Very Modern, and a compliment to an...
Category
20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Pair of Musicians Mid Century Modern Bookends Sculptures in Cast Iron
Located in San Diego, CA
Nice pair of cast iron musicians, men, and woman the pair had a label that read made in Italy but it got lost.
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Iron
$300 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Set of Three Marble Obelisk Paper Weight Bookends
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Three black marble obelisks. The trio are a nice decorative addition to the desk or shelf, however could easily be paper weights or bookends. A very nice set of three black with whit...
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Belgian Black Marble
Pair of Vintage Brass "Praying Hands" Bookends on Onyx
Located in San Diego, CA
Pair of Vintage Brass "Praying Hands" Bookends on Marble. A lovely pair of vintage brass "Praying Hands" bookends circa 1960s. The set is in very good vintage condition with a fine ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Onyx, Brass
1950s Ben Seibel Teardrop Copper Flame Bookend Pair
Located in Chula Vista, CA
1950s Ben Seibel Copper Teardrop Flame Bookend Set
Copper bookends designed by Ben Seibel for Jenfredware
6.5 h x 4.5 w x 2.25 d
Preowned original vintage condition
Refer to listed i...
Category
1950s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Copper
Mid-Century Modern Pair of Sailboat Bookends, Powder-Coated White
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Powder-Coated Creamy White Set of Mid-Century Sailboat Bookends
Substantial in size and weight, these solid vintage brass newly powder-coated boats are both form and function. Fabu...
Category
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Blenko Stylized Bamboo Glass Bookends
By Blenko Glass
Located in New York, NY
Pair of cast clear glass bookends with a stylized bamboo motif by Blenko.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Art Glass
$465 / set
Black Iron Room Divider Screen with Black Tessellated Stone Accents
Located in Miami, FL
Midcentury three-panel room divider or screen made of welded black powdercoated iron with black tessellated stone centerpieces. Most closely re...
Category
1950s Unknown Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Iron
$3,040 Sale Price
36% Off
Pair of Mid-Century Modern Sunshine Yellow Boat Bookends
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Powder-Coated Sunshine Yellow Set of Mid-Century Sailboat Bookends
These solid vintage newly powder-coated boats are both form and function. Fabulous pair displayed on a bookshelf ...
Category
Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal, Iron
1968 Curtis Jere Male and Female Bookends, a Pair
By Curtis Jeré
Located in Marietta, GA
Classic pair of gilt iron bookends, signed C Jere, 1968. One, the sign for female, and one, the sign for male. Heavy enough to actually hold books, or just use, decoratively.
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Iron
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #4843 Patinated Brass Bookends
Located in Glendale, CA
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #4843 patinated brass bookends. Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in patinated brass.
Price is f...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Pair of Solid Brass Folding Chinese Foo Dog Bookends
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful pair of solid brass folding foo dog bookends, circa 1960s. The bookends are in good vintage condition and measure 7"W x 3.5"D x 6"H. Great look! #3588
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Pair of Modernist Chrome Chain Link Bookends
Located in San Diego, CA
Gorgeous pair of modernist chrome chain link bookends, circa 1970s. The pair are very heavy and in good vintage condition; they measure 14.75"W x 6.25"D x 6.5"H. Great addition to an...
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Steel, Chrome
Pair of Vintage Burlwood Bookends, 1970
s
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Pair of Vintage Burlwood Bookends, 1970's
"each book end is approximately 4" wide x 5 1/2" deep x 7" +/- tall"
"nice grain and color"
"in original vintage as found condition"
"felt ...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Pair of Modernist Chrome Chain Link Bookends
Located in San Diego, CA
Gorgeous pair of modernist chrome chain link bookends, circa 1970s. The pair are in very heavy and in good vintage condition; they measure 11.5"W x 8"D x 7"H. Great addition to any MCM office...
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Steel, Chrome
$960 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Telescoping Adjustable World Globe by Rand McNally, Chicago
Located in Buffalo, NY
16 inch diameter telescoping adjustable world globe by Rand McNally, Chicago, wonderful color and proportion, adjustable from 52 inches to 76 inches, retains original metal baseball ...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Pair of Vintage Solid Onyx Aztecs Mexican Bookends
Located in San Diego, CA
Pair of solid onyx bookends, circa 1970's Aztec style some light chips due to age Sold AS/IS.
Category
20th Century Mexican Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Onyx
$220 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Mid-Century Modern 1970s Geometric Trapezoid Lucite Bookends - Astrolite
By Herb Ritts, Astrolite
Located in St. Louis, MO
Pair of MCM 1970s Herb Ritts for Astrolite designed clear & frosted lucite Trapezoid shaped bookends. In fine condition, no damage. no Label. In fine condition, no issues.
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Lucite
Pair of Midcentury Glass Owl Bookends by Blenko
By Blenko Glass
Located in San Diego, CA
Midcentury pair of handblown owl bookends by Blenko, circa 1960s. The bookends are heavy and solid with a smooth back side a finish and a textural finish on the front. Very cool deco...
Category
Mid-20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Blown Glass
$300 Sale Price / set
36% Off
Mid-Century Chinese Beige and Flowering Tree Four Panel Screen
Located in Queens, NY
Mid-century Chinese four-paneled beige folding screen crafted in canvas-covered wood, painted with birds perched in flowering trees growing from the earth and a red and green floral ...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Romano Dona Vintage Signed Murano Glass Obelisk
By Romano Donà
Located in West Palm Beach, FL
Exquisite glass Murano obelisk signed by master glass blower Romano Dona. Black Murano glass resting on transparent Murano glass balls.
Romano Donà grew up in a family with centuries of experience in glassmaking. He entered the kiln business at an early age, beginning his apprenticeship at the F.lli Manfren company where he worked also with his father. In 1975 he began working with the master Livio Seguso with whom he worked for twenty years in order to master his skills while learning from important artists like Henry Mavrodin, Federica Marangoni, Mimmo Rotella and Ugo Marano...
Category
1980s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Murano Glass
Italian 1970
s Three Panel Bamboo Decorative Screen
Located in New York, NY
A beautifully ornamental handmade three panel bamboo screen; the bamboo held together with brass pins and screen connected via brass hinges. A dramatic way to divide a room or space,...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bamboo
Midcentury Design Line Inc. Bill Curry Stainless Modernist Cube Bookends
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Very heavy and seemingly rare cube on cube stainless clad bookends by Bill Curry for Design Line.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Stainless Steel
Balla Screen by Giacomo Balla Produced by Simon International in 1971
Located in Ozzano Dell
emilia, IT
Folding screen realized based on a project designed by Giacomo Balla in 1916-18. Multilayer wood structure. Set composed by two pieces, each with three panels linked with folding hin...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Mid-20th Century Mid Century Modern Tall Standing Birdcage Black Painted Bamboo
Located in Topeka, KS
Wonderful vintage Mid-Century Modern tall standing birdcage comprised of black painted bamboo spindles, thin metal bars, and tapered hexagon top & base with cane over wood panels. And comes with a fabulous parrot basket...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Ben Seibel Brass "Keys" Bookends, USA 1950
s
By Ben Seibel
Located in New York, NY
Whimsical pair of "Keys" bookends by Ben Seibel in Brass with green enameled accents.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass, Enamel
Mid-Century Modern Tall Solid Bamboo Wood Room Divider Screen Partition Italy
Located in Miami, FL
Mid-Century Modern tall three double wall-panel solid bamboo wood room divider in dark brown finish, comes from Italy.
Heavy and very well crafted with leather cross bindings and but...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Pair of Ritts Astrolite Modern Abstract Lucite Bookends
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A good pair of Ritts Astrolite Lucite bookends,
of an abstract, modernist design with pierced central openings.
Height: circa 6 3/4 in.
Items purchased from David Sterner Antiques...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Lucite
Pair of MCM Ceramic Tile and Walnut Bookends by Jane
Gordon Martz
Located in San Diego, CA
A nice pair of MCM ceramic tile and walnut bookends by Jane & Gordon Martz for Marshall Studios, circa 1950s. The bookends are in very good vintage condtion and measure 8.5"W x 5"D x...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Pottery, Walnut
$340 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Op Art 3-Panel Screen c 1960s
Located in Norwalk, CT
A remarkable work of fantastical swirls and shapes in vibrant colors, this continuous psychedelic artwork is on canvas stretched and mounted on three wood framed panels...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Canvas
Pair of Vintage Chinese Hand Carved Hard Wood Foo Dogs
Located in San Diego, CA
A very nice pair of vintage Chinese hand carved hard wood foo dogs or bookends which I believe are made from elm, rosewood or another type of hardwood, circa 1950s. The dogs have gla...
Category
Early 20th Century Chinese Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Hardwood
$900 Sale Price / set
40% Off
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #3652 Brass Bookends
Located in Glendale, CA
Pair of Carl Auböck model #3652 brass bookends.
Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in patinated and polished brass. Each pie...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
1970s Blue Quartz Stone Bookends Ethereal Blue
Located in Chula Vista, CA
Midcentury pair of organic modern bookends polished floating blue quartz stone
4 1/2" H x 3 1/2" W x 4 1/4" D (each)
Original organic vintage unrestored condition.
Refer to images.
Category
1970s Unknown Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Quartz
Pair of Large Vintage Lucite Decorative Obelisks
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Hollywood Regency-Style lucite obelisks, ca. 1970s, USA.
Large-scale, statuesque decorative objects measuring H: 19.88" and 20.25" (there is a slight dimensional disparity between th...
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Lucite
$1,200 / set
Large Atomic Jack / Jax Bookend or Doorstop in the Style of Bill Curry
By Bill Curry
Located in San Diego, CA
Vintage atomic era, mid-century modern large iron jack / jax in the style of Bill Curry, circa 1970s. The piece is functional as either a bookend, door stop or decorative accent and ...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Iron
$300 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Vintage Rare Freeform Geode Bookends
Located in San Diego, CA
Versatile set of white and gray colored geode bookends, circa 1960s. The set is in very good vintage condition. This particular set is a unique pair that parallels two sides. One s...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Rock Crystal
$236 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Mid-Century Modern Ben Seibel Modern Brass Bookends Sculptural Tear Drop Flame
By Ben Seibel
Located in Chula Vista, CA
For your consideration, a pair (2) of brass bookends designed by Ben Seibel. Modern bookends tear drop flame in brass plated finish. USA circa the 1960s. Mid-century modern era.
Di...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Mid Century Elephant Bookends, Blenko
By Blenko Glass
Located in New York, NY
Mid Century solid cast glass stylized elephant bookends. Backs are polished smooth, while fronts are textured.
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Art Glass
$495 / set
Mid-century Modern home accents for sale on 1stDibs.
Find a broad range of unique Mid-Century Modern home accents 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 home accents created in this style to your space, the works available on 1stDibs include more furniture and collectibles, decorative objects, case pieces and storage cabinets and other home furnishings, frequently crafted with metal, wood and other materials. If you’re shopping for used Mid-Century Modern home accents 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 home accents, popular names associated with this style include Werkstätte Carl Auböck, Blenko, Ben Seibel, and Replogle Globes. 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 home accents 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 $188,000 while the average work can sell for $1,200.
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