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
Vintage Mid Century Brutalist Cork Park Sherman Bookends
By Park Sherman
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful pair of cork crafted column bookends by Park Sherman. These beautiful bookends express minimalist and brutalist notes. Column like, they define simplicity and organic sty...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Cork
Studio Made Art Decorated Lacquered 4-Panel Room Divider Screen
Located in Rockaway, NJ
Art decorated lacquered four-panel screen room divider. Studio signed and dated.
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Hardwood
Pair of Marble Bookends with Louis Vuitton Monogram Fabric
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Mid-Century Marble Stone Bookends with Louis Vuitton Monogram Fabric. These custom, substantial monogrammed bookends are custom made with au...
Category
Mid-20th Century European Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Stone
Galerie Maison et Jardin Four Panel Brass and Silk Fabric Screen, 1970
Located in Paris, IDF
Unique 1970s four-panel screen room divider with solid polished brass structure and profile manufactured by Galerie Maison et Jardin in the early 1970s. The panels have been reupholstered with a wool and silk fabric from Fadini Borghi...
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Baumann Fils
Cie Midcentury Paravent Paris Room Divider Screen
Located in Franklin Park, IL
Baumann Fils & Cie midcentury Paravent Paris room divider screen
This room divider measures: 142 wide x 1 deep x 63.5 inches high
All pieces of furn...
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Lucite / Acrylic Law Enameled Scales of Justice Book Ends
Located in Westport, CT
Lucite / acrylic black enameled scales of justice book ends, stainless steel return to fit books together as shown, nice for book display on shelving or ...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Stainless Steel
Achille &, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Clear Libreria Pensile For Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Achille &, Pier Giacomo Castiglioni Clear Libreria Pensile For Karakter
Originally designed in 1957, perfected over the years, and produced by Bernini in 1966. Seeking to pare down...
Category
2010s Danish Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Oak, Lacquer
Guillerme et Chambron, Ebonized Oak Radiator Cover, France, Mid-20th Century
Located in New York, NY
This midcentury, ebonized radiator cover by the celebrated French designer Robert Guillerme, was created as part of a line of design he produced for the company Votre Maison. Feature...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Oak
Midcentury Room Divider by Ludvik Volak for Drevopodnik Holesov, 1960s
By Ludvik Volak
Located in Żory, PL
This ash-veneered divider designed by Ludvik Volak features his well-known arrangement of curved, interconnected shapes. Made from bent plywood, it remains in solid vintage condition...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Plywood
1952 Brass Eagle Bookends by Virginia Metalcrafters
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful pair of brass spread-wing eagle bookends by Virginia Metalcrafters, stamped 1952. The eagle is shown with its wings fully spread and a laurel branch and bundle of arrows clutched in its left talon. The eagle clutches a Union shield across its breast. The Union shield has a chief with three stars and six stripes completing the design.
The eagle motif in décor and Folk Art has been widely used throughout our nation's history, most notably as part of our Great Seal. The founders of the United States were fond of comparing their new republic with the Roman Republic, in which eagle imagery, usually the golden eagle, was prominent. On June 20, 1782, the Continental Congress adopted the design for the Great Seal of the United States depicting a bald eagle grasping 13 arrows and an olive branch with its talons.
When Charles Thomson put together the final design for the Great Seal, he placed a bundle of arrows in the eagle's left (sinister) talon. The official description specifies the bald eagle holding "in his sinister a bundle of thirteen arrows." The thirteen arrows are tightly aligned – a symbol of "strength in unity" that's found in the traditional cultures everywhere, from the Romans to the Iroquois— in this case a nod to the unity of the original 13 colonies. William J. Loth founded Virginia Metalcrafters in 1890, under the name Waynesboro Stove Company. The company, which made ornately cast Cook...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
$220 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Gaetano Pesce Tramonto a New York Screen for Cassina, Italy - new
By Cassina, Gaetano Pesce
Located in Berlin, DE
Gaetano Pesce Tramonto a New York Screen for Cassina, Italy - new. Made of artificial resin with brass base.
Category
2010s Italian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Chinese Mother of Pearl Coromandel Lacquered Hand Painted Screen/Room Divider
Located in Chicago, IL
Vintage Chinese Export Four Panel Red & Black Mother of Pearl Coromandel Lacquered Hand Painted Screen Room Divider
Gorgeous Black & Red La...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Mother-of-Pearl, Lacquer
Mid-Century Modern Bronze TOTEM Sculpture
Located in Philadelphia, PA
A fine mid-century bronze sculpture.
In the form of a stylized totem.
With a round plinth supported by 3 legs (and thus a little prone to tipping).
Simply a wonderful sculp...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bronze
Pair of Astrolite Mid-Century Modern Beveled Lucite Bookends
By Astrolite
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Thick Lucite Mid-Century Bookend Set, 1960's. These heavy Lucite bookends with beautiful beveled edges almost glow when the light hits them. Polished and substantial, this pair is an...
Category
Mid-20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Lucite
$290 Sale Price / set
22% Off
Heavy Bronze Terrestrial Globe on Black Base, 1990
s
Located in Fort Lauderdale, FL
Heavy Bronze terrestrial Globe on Black Base, 1990's
Heavy bronze terrestrial globe with armillary rings mounted on a sleek black metal base. This substantial decorative globe featur...
Category
Late 20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal, Bronze
Italian 1950s Architectural Brass Bookends
Located in Milan, IT
Italian 1950s Architectural Brass Bookends in the style of Ignazio Gardella.
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Frederic Weinberg Bird Cage Shaped Planter Hanging Fixture with Onion Dome Top
Located in Chicago, IL
This bird cage shaped hanging fixture was originally designed by Frederic Weinberg as a planter. A slight variation of this design was also available as an actual bird cage, but I can find no reference to it having been offered by Frederic Weinberg as a ceiling fixture. So I assume it was converted to a hanging fixture for its original owner, where it hung in the center of a circular staircase.
The form is of a stylized tower with an onion dome...
Category
1960s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wrought Iron
20th Century Giacomo Balla Decorative Wooden Screen for Gavina hand decorated
Located in Turin, Turin
Dino Gavina began his activity as early as the 1940s with objects for theater sets, his great passion. Convinced of the need for design that was modern but also rich in poetry, he gr...
Category
1970s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Cenedese Mid-Century Modern Vintage Pair of Blue Italian Murano Glass Obelisks
By Cenedese
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
Cenedese vintage midcentury modern tall and rare pair of Murano solid light blue colored / coloured faceted glass obelisks, made circa 1970. Wonderful Italian glass and perfect as an...
Category
Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Blown Glass, Murano Glass
Handsome Mid-Century Modern 4 Panel Folding Screen Bohemian
Located in Pemberton, NJ
Handsome Mid-Century Modern 4 panel folding screen with starburst pattern. This unique Bohemian style four part lattice wall divider features th...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Mahogany
$1,680 Sale Price
20% Off
Pair of Italian Gold Gilt Folding Bookends by Franco Tacchi
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful air of Italian gold gilt folding bookends by Franco Tacchi circa 1960s. The bookends are in good vintage condition and measure 7"W x 3.5"D x 6"H. Great look! #4114
Category
Mid-20th Century Chinese Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Gold Leaf
Pietro Fornasetti, Rare metal Bookend Janus Two-Faced 1950s (First edition)
Located in Argelato, BO
Pietro Fornasetti, Rare metal bookend from the 1950s (First edition)
In the extraordinary creative imagination of Pietro Fornasetti every household object is transformed and embelli...
Category
1950s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Mid-Century Three-Panel Room Divider with Bamboo Detailing
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A beautifully crafted three-panel room divider featuring a dark wood frame and translucent panels inset with a bamboo leaf motif. The organic pattern and warm tones evoke a serene, n...
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood, Fiberglass
Vintage Petite Illuminated Glass Precision Globe by Replogle
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Diminutive 10" diameter Replogle Precision Globe circa late 1952 / early 1953 (Israel, Korea, and Ethiopia are present).
Charming desk / bedside decorative object, given its size (ro...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Perforated Brass Fireplace Fender
Located in Tarrytown, NY
Perforated brass fireplace fender with cast animal foot and rope details.
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Italian Mid-Century Moder Cream Color Luggage or Suitcase, 1960
Located in Traversetolo, IT
Beautiful Italian suitcase dating back to 1960. Very special as a collector's item or as a piece of furniture. The suitcase is in very good condition, and it is fully original. It ca...
Category
1960s Italian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Leather, Fabric
$767 Sale Price
20% Off
Room Divider Wall Unit by Ludvik Volak for Drevopodnik Holesov, 1960s, Restored
By Ludvik Volak
Located in Wien, AT
This room divider from the 1960s was designed by Ludvik Volak for Drevopodnik Holesov, in Czechoslovakia. This is made of bent beech plywood and ash veneer. Completely restored. Exce...
Category
1960s Czech Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Ash, Plywood
Pair of Mid-Century Owl Bookends Sculptures in Silver
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Mid-Century Pair Metal Silver Painted Bookends. Absolutely spot on in terms of this MCM period, these sturdy owls sitting on a branch will add to that vibe classic modern vibe displa...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
1950s Replogle Glass Illuminated Precision Globe
Located in Brooklyn, NY
This 10" 'Precision' Globe was manufactured in the early 1950s by Replogle (Chicago, IL) and edited by cartographer, Gustav Brueckmann. Composed of p...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal, Brass
Three-Panel Bamboo Wicker Rattan Folding Screen Room Divider, France 1960s
Located in Miami, FL
This Mid-Century-Modern eye-catching rattan or wicker and bamboo three-panel room divider with filigree decoration was crafted in France in the 1960s. This rattan screen combines mid...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Rattan
C.S. Hammond
Co. 1950s Inflatable Globe on Tripod Stand
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Hammond's International Globe (circa 1955) composed of an inflatable globe on painted metal tripod base. Images and font are large in scale and very l...
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Vintage Midcentury Glass Owl Bookends by Blenko
Located in San Diego, CA
Beautiful pair of midcentury glass owl bookends by Blenko from the 1960s. Incredible craftsmanship and detail in this pair of glass bookends that can adapt to your style as sculpture...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Blown Glass
Midcentury Sculptural Jacks Bookends
By Bill Curry
Located in San Diego, CA
Solid iron sculptural jacks bookends in a chocolate brown. Could also be used as doorstops. 1950s.
Category
1950s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Vintage MCM Free Standing Room Divider Wall Unit Cabinet with 3-Drawers
Located in Seattle, WA
A remarkable Mid Century Modern walnut wood, upright, vertical, single bay freestanding unit. Wall unit features gorgeous walnut wood tones and grain, upper shelf cabinet compartment...
Category
1970s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Walnut
Danny Allessandro Fire Screen with Chrome Footed Bases 1970s
Located in New York, NY
Fire screen in glass with 2 chrome footed bases by Danny Allessandro and sold through Holly Hunt, American 1970's. The glass size can be customized to spec if needed.
Category
1970s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Chrome
Pair of Mid-Century Brass Chrome Bookends with Louis Vuitton Monogram Fabric
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Mid-Century Pair of Brass and Chrome Bookends with Louis Vuitton Monogram Fabric
These custom, very substantial monogrammed bookends are...
Category
Mid-20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass, Chrome
$520 Sale Price / set
71% Off
Fabric Collage Floor Screen by Rose Lautman
Located in Hanover, MA
Rose Lautman, worked exclusively in fabric collage with a meticulous hand and a fine needle.
Rose's artwork was exhibited in galleries primarily in Sara...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Fabric
Upholstered 4 Fold Screen, Room Divider This as a tall useful piece
Located in Godshill, Isle of Wight
Upholstered 4 Fold Screen, Room Divider
This as a tall useful piece in good condition with only minor fading to one side, otherwise both sides of the screen are the same
The screen ...
Category
1950s Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Linen
Bronze Dancers Couple 1970s Belgium Artist V D Brande
By V. D. Brande
Located in Antwerp, BE
Beautiful set of two expressive dancers from the seventies, handcrafted in bronze, inspired by sculpted clay sculptures a technique that is characteristic of the seventies and gives ...
Category
1970s Belgian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Bronze
$5,759 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Pair of French Art Deco Metal and Wood Sculptural Bookends
Located in Haddonfield, NJ
Very substantial and versatile pair of art deco bookend sculptures. These sturdy vintage bookends have been crafted into a striking scroll design with multiple uses for the modern bo...
Category
Early 20th Century French Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
$280 Sale Price
20% Off
2 Panel Folding Screen with Abstract Lucite Panels
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Two Panel Wood Screen with caning on bottom of one side. Top is an abstract design of fern leaves and threads laid out in a free-form design in lucite panels. Panels have the look ...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Cane, Lucite, Wood
Pair of Carl Auböck Model #3530
Flatiron
Patinated Brass and Cane Bookends
Located in Glendale, CA
Pair of Carl Auböck model #3530 'Flatiron' patinated brass and cane bookends.
Designed in the 1950s, this incredibly refined and sculptural pair of bookends are executed in patinat...
Category
21st Century and Contemporary Austrian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Achille Castiglioni, 1991 Left Handed White Oak Lungangolo For Karakter
Located in Barcelona, Barcelona
Achille Castiglioni, 1991 Left Handed White Oak Lungangolo For Karakter
Castiglioni is said to ponder a lot on lost space. Empty inches and square meters that could be filled with b...
Category
2010s Danish Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Oak
Vintage Luggage Genuine Leather in Alligator Look, Dionite, Canada, 1950s
Located in Bochum, NRW
A Dionite vintage leather luggage, alligator look, extremely decorative.
Light body covered with alligator patterned cow leather. Under the handle a brass plate with company logo.
Al...
Category
Mid-20th Century Canadian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Leather
Tennessee Williams "Wisteria" Folding Screen by Charles Hollis Jones
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Beautiful Lucite folding screen designed by Charles Hollis Jones in 1968 for Tennessee William as part of the "Wisteria" line.
The folding screen is executed in tinted green Lucit...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
Copper and Brass Umbrella Stand by Vereinigte Werkstätten München, circa 1955
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
Delightful handcrafted German Mid-Century modern umbrella stand or holder by the Vereinigte Werkstätten (Atelier) München, circa 1955. Handmade in patinated copper with cast brass tr...
Category
Mid-20th Century German Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass, Copper
Louis Vuitton Malle de Voyage Personnalisées. Paris Late 1940s
Located in Milano, IT
Louis Vuitton trunk dated to the late 1940s, restored to original condition. This is a travel trunk that is smaller than the normal standard size, designed to be placed very convenie...
Category
1940s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Canvas
Charlotte Perriand Style Room Divider
Located in Chicago, IL
c. 1970s in great vintage condition. This piece works great as a cabinet or as a room divider - both sides feature sliding doors and are identical. There is general wear including pa...
Category
1970s French Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Room Divider by Fred Leyman
By Fred Leyman
Located in Stockholm, SE
Spectacular sculptural room divider by Fred Leyman, custom-made for Majorna Library in Gothenburg in 1963. This piece is one of four that are each unique, made from wrought iron and hardened leather. The room dividers were granted substantial public interest and the studies for them were subsequently exhibited at Liljevalchs Konsthall in 1966. They were returned to the artist in the 1990s and acquired by Nordlings from the Leyman family in 2016.
Fred Leyman was a Swedish artist, schooled at the renowned Valand Art Academy in Gothenburg during the 1950s. Leyman worked in a distinctly modernist style influenced by the international modernist movement, music, political ideas and the environment in which he lived. He is best known for his around 40 large-scale sculptures erected in public spaces in Gothenburg and other parts of southwestern Sweden.
Fred Leyman lived on the island of Orust with his wife and children, in accordance with what he found to be ”a good life” – close to nature on a small farm with sheep and horses. He was also deeply interested in music, particularly traditional folk music. Both the open, marine landscape of Orust and the rhythmical qualities in music were vital forces in his artistry and in the development of his personal style. Leyman used iron and steel and sometimes wood and leather in his sculptures. These are characterized by sharp and billowing graphic lines and the use of negative space, seemingly always reaching somewhere. It is an expression striking the perfect balance between abstract and concrete.
Leyman’s materials of choice were particularly suitable for large and sustainable...
Category
1960s Swedish Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wrought Iron
$22,499
Antique Paravan with Fabric, Czechoslovakia
Located in Praha, CZ
- Good original condition with some signs of age and use
- Sturdy and Stable
- reupholstered some time ago
- Linden wood frame
Category
Early 1900s Czech Antique Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Fabric, Wood
Atomic Era Jack / Jax Bookend, Doorstop or Paperweight by Bill Curry
By Bill Curry
Located in San Diego, CA
A very cool vintage atomic era / MCM iron jack / jax in the style of Bill Curry, circa 1970s. The piece in well worn vintage condition with a great patina and...
Category
20th Century American Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Iron
$160 Sale Price
20% Off
Mexican Modern Bookends by Don Shoemaker
Located in Mexico City, CDMX
Circa 1970. We offer this Hand carved bookends made in Cocobolo by Mexican Modernist Don Shoemaker. Include original labels from his workshop in Señal Mexico.
Category
1970s Mexican Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
$500 / set
Art Deco Architectural Bird Bookends Art Brass Co NY Geometric Pair Owl Falcon
Located in Hyattsville, MD
Pair of brass American Art Deco Bird bookends designed in sharply geometric patterns, like metropolis architectural elements of the 1920-1940. ...
Category
1930s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
$796 Sale Price
20% Off
Vintage Triangular Cast Glass Bookends by Blenko
By Blenko Glass
Located in Brooklyn, NY
An awesome pair of heavy mid-century modern cast glass triangle shaped bookends by Blenko. Two sides are polished smooth and the other three sides are textured.
In very good vintag...
Category
Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Glass
Vintage Curved Astrolite Lucite Bookends by Ritts Co. of Los Angeles
Located in San Diego, CA
Striking pair of mid-century modern "Astrolite" lucite bookends by the Ritts Company of Los Angeles. This pair are each one quarter of a circle, so when put together provide a semi-c...
Category
1960s American Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Lucite
1980s Faceted Lucite Bookends by Ritts Co. of Los Angeles
Located in Brooklyn, NY
A pair of mid-century modern "Astrolite" lucite bookends by the Ritts Company of Los Angeles that are strikingly etched and polished, which catches and refract lights beautifully. T...
Category
Late 20th Century Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Lucite
$260 Sale Price / set
20% Off
Mid-Century Italian 2-Panel Screen
Located in Queens, NY
Italian Mid-Century 2 panel screen with a square panels of abalone shells in a rustic wood frame.
As is
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Wood
Mid Century A to Z Brushed Steel Bookends
Located in San Diego, CA
Incredible pair of midcentury, solid brushed steel, "A to Z" bookends circa 1970s. Incredibly solid with an impactful presence, these sculptural pieces render style to any decor. C...
Category
1970s Indian Vintage Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Stainless Steel
Antique Hanging Chinese Birdcage with Brass Patina
Located in Chicago, IL
Antique Hanging Chinese Birdcage with beautiful brass patina.
Category
Mid-20th Century Unknown Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Metal
Solid Italian Glass Blocks Wrapped Leather Bookends in the Style of Gucci
By Gucci
Located in San Diego, CA
Great pair of Italian solid green glass bookends wrapped on leather, with decorative brass emblem, circa 1950s.
Category
20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Home Accents
Materials
Brass
$380 Sale Price / set
20% Off
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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Louis Vuitton Red Trunk
Malle Fleurs
Suitcase 1900
Tooled Leather Screen
Used Hartmann Luggage