Rene Gruau Original Vintage Poster Advertising, 'Bemberg', c. 1970
By René Gruau
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Rene Gruau Original Vintage Poster Advertising, 'Bemberg', c. 1970 Artist Rene Gruau Condition Excellent Year c. 1970 Dimensions: 100 x 140 Format Linen backed This is a rar...
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster America Sabena Belgian Airlines
By Gaston van den Eynde
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - nach Amerika Sabena Belgische Fluglinien / America by Sabena Belgian Airlines featuring a colourful stylised image of a plane flying over...
Paper
Unique Small Aluminum "Hood" Foot Advertising Paperweight, circa 1960's
Located in Philadelphia, PA
Unique Small Aluminum Foot Paperweight Advertising: " 'Hood' double arrow logo" "in vintage as found condition"
Aluminum
Large MCM Advertising Desk Pad on Wood Truck "Mitchell"
Located in San Diego, CA
A super cool and hard to find large MCM advertising desk pad on wood truck "Mitchell", circa 1970s. This piece is in good vintage condition and measures 8.75"W x 3"D x 4.75"H. These...
Wood, Paper
Vintage Carl's San Diego Wooden Beverage Crate, California Advertising, 1940s
Located in San Diego, CA
A scarce survivor with strong regional appeal, particularly for collectors of San Diego history and California advertising. Style: Industrial / Americana / Folk Art Dimensions: 15...
Metal
$751Sale Price|20% Off
Martini and Rossi Bitter Vintage Advertising Design French Modernist Gouache
By Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Authentic, visually striking, and imbued with the glamour of mid-century aperitif culture, it demonstrates Nicod’s ability to elevate commercial commissions into bold and enduring wo...
Gouache
$680Sale Price|20% Off
Martini and Rossi Bitter French Modernist Cocktail Advertising Style Painting
By Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Martini and Rossi Bitter French Modernist Cocktail Advertising Style Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (hei...
Gouache
$740Sale Price|20% Off
Martini and Rossi Bitter Vintage Cocktail Advertising French Modernist Gouache
By Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
This was a period when Martini & Rossi’s advertising was internationally celebrated for its stylish and cosmopolitan appeal, associated with aperitif culture, cocktail parties, a...
Gouache
$746Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage French Advertising Poster Design Martini and Rossi Bitter Cocktail
By Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
For collectors of vintage advertising, mid-century design, or drinks-related art, this piece captures the glamour and conviviality of Martini & Rossi’s international image.
Gouache
Large Collection of 75+ Vintage Figural & Advertising Cocktail Swizzle Sticks
Located in San Diego, CA
A vibrant and highly collectible assortment of over 75 vintage cocktail swizzle sticks, dating primarily from the mid-20th century. This curated grouping showcases an engaging mix of...
Plastic, Acrylic
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Equus Visual Interpretations Tom Eckersley
By Tom Eckersley 1
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Equus: Visual interpretations by students of the London College of Printing an exhibition of souvenir brochures interpreting Peter Schaffer's ...
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Kuwait MEA Middle East Airlines Auriac
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Kuwait MEA Middle East Airlines featuring a colourful mid-century design by Jacques Auriac (1922-2003) showing a sailing boat on blue water wi...
Paper
$735Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage French Modernist Advertising Poster Design Martini and Rossi Cocktail
By Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vintage French Modernist Advertising Poster Design Martini and Rossi Cocktail Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (hei...
Gouache
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Rhodesia Africa World Ploughing Contest 1968
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the 15th World Ploughing Contest held in Rhodesia 1968 (Zimbabwe Africa) on the 26 and 27 April featuring a stunning midcentury design depicti...
Paper
$2,560Sale Price / item|20% Off
Original Vintage French Advertising Poster, Verigoud by Savignac, 1955
By Hervé Morvan
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage French advertising poster, VERIGOUD by Savignac, 1955 This is an original poster, linen backed for preservation. This poster is advertising a fruit drink for chi...
Linen, Paper
Set of 12 Saint-Gobain Advertising Plates Designed by Jean Effel
By Saint Gobain
Located in Brisbane, QLD
A wonderfully playful set of 12 French advertising plates with illustrations by Jean Effel (1908-1982) for the glass company Saint-Gobain. The plates likely date to the 1960s and are...
Glass
Vintage Pair of Johnnie Walker Black Label Scotch Whisky Advertising Pitchers
Located in San Diego, CA
Rare pair of vintage Johnnie Walker Black Label promotional glass pitchers featuring the iconic black and gold label graphic applied directly to the clear blown glass body. Designed ...
Glass
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Swissair Hans Looser Swiss Midcentury
By Hans Looser
Located in London, GB
Original vintage mid-century travel advertising poster for Swissair featuring a colourful painting by the renowned graphic artist Hans Looser (1919-1988) depicting a smiling lady wea...
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Books For Your Holidays Livres Fix Masseau
By Pierre Fix-Masseau
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster in French - Pour vos vacances ... des livres / For your holidays ... books - featuring a fun mid-century illustration by the notable French graphi...
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster, PERRIER by Andy Warhol c. 1983
By Andy Warhol
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
During the beginning of the 1980’s, Warhol began accepting commissions from a range of manufacturers and businesses; this screen print was an experimental design for French mineral w...
Paper
Huge Waterman Figural Fountain Pen Advertising Store Display Model
By Waterman
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This enormous figural fountain pen store display is unsigned, but presumed to have been made by the Waterman Co. of France in approximately 1965 and done in the period Mid-Century Mo...
Metal
Advertising Figure from Champagne Dom Pérignon signed J.L. Delaroche
Located in Meulebeke, BE
France / 1930 / Advertising statue / J.L. Delaroche / ceramic / Mid-century / Vintage Rare Vintage Dom Pérignon statue or old advertising object, signed J.L. Delaroche. This statue ...
Ceramic
French Dubonnet Advertising Poster Print with Blue Cat Design, 1937 D'Ornellas.
Located in Seattle, WA
This French advertising print features the iconic Dubonnet aperitif design with a whimsical blue cat in three playful poses, accompanied by the bold red text: "Dubo - Dubon- Dubonnet...
Paper
$713Sale Price|20% Off
Martini Advertising Design Extra Dry Cocktail By The Fireplace French Modernist
By Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
The style reflects the mid-century golden age of French poster and advertising design, when lifestyle-driven imagery was central to conveying elegance, relaxation, and modern living.
Gouache
Framed Advertising Poster for the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris
Located in Ulm, DE
Advertising poster for the 1937 World Exhibition in Paris Framed advertising poster "exposition internationale 1937 PARIS" Printed by Julis Simon S.A. Paris original Art Deco, Fran...
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Ibusz Travel Agency Hungary Vane
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster for Ibusz featuring a great design showing a weather vane in the shapes of a plane, bus, ship and train set over a purple and blue shaded b...
Paper
$713Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage Modernist French Advertising Poster Design for Gaston de Lagrange Cognac
By Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Vintage Modernist French Advertising Poster Design for Gaston de Lagrange Cognac Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 11.75 x 15.75 inches (...
Gouache
$680Sale Price|20% Off
Martini and Rossi Bitter French Modernist Cocktail Advertising Style with Bottle
By Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Martini and Rossi Bitter French Modernist Cocktail Advertising Style Painting Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 11.75 x 15.75 inches (hei...
Gouache
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster New Orleans Southern Pacific Railway
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - New Orleans Part of your trip across America on Southern Pacific Railroad - featuring a colourful design depicting a scenic view of the h...
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster State Security Post Office Savings Bank
By Tom Eckersley 1
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - State Security Post Office Savings Bank - featuring a colourful midcentury design by the notable artist Tom Eckersley (1914-1997) depicting a st...
Paper
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Europe UAA United Arab Airlines Comet
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Europe Comet 4C Jet UAA United Arab Airlines - featuring a colourful mid-century design depicting four stylised people in traditional nat...
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster 100 Years Of Printing Education Eckersley
By Tom Eckersley 1
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster- College Printing Historical Society 100 Years of Printing Education a lecture by Charles L Pickering - featuring a graphic design by the notable ...
Paper
Original Vintage Train Travel Advertising Poster Basque Coast Visit France SNCF
Located in London, GB
Original vintage travel advertising poster - Visit France The Basque Coast use the trains and motor coaches of the French National Railroads - featuring a great scene of the Basque C...
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster London College Of Printing Fan Eckersley
By Tom Eckersley 1
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - The Staff of the London College of Printing Annual Dinner and Social Evening - featuring an illustration by the notable artist Tom Eckersley (19...
Paper
Midcentury Decorative Box Advertising Enamel Metal and Wood, Italy 1960s
Located in Rome, IT
Midcentury beautiful rectangular decorative box or cigarette box advertising enamel metal and wood. Made in Italy in the 1970s. Perfect desk object or gift idea.
Metal, Enamel
$735Sale Price|20% Off
Du Soleil Dans Un Verre Martini Advertising Design French Modernist Gouache
By Guy Nicod
Located in Cirencester, Gloucestershire
Title: Du Soleil Dans Un Verre Martini Advertising Design French Modernist Gouache Guy Nicod (French 1923 - 2021) Gouache on artist paper, unframed Size: 15.75 x 11.75 inches (heigh...
Gouache
Original Vintage Advertising Poster London College Dinner Dance Tom Eckersley
By Tom Eckersley 1
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the London College of Printing Annual Dinner and Social Evening featuring a great graphic design by the notable artist Tom Eckersley (1914-199...
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster London College Of Printing Ball Eckersley
By Tom Eckersley 1
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster - The Staff of the London College of Printing Annual Dinner and Social Evening - featuring a graphic design illustration by the notable artist Tom...
Paper
$559Sale Price|20% Off
Big old advertising poster stove heating Super Norma - around 1930s
Located in Praha, CZ
- 1960s - original poster, no reproduction - suitable for framing - few damages,see the photos - Printed in: V. Neubert a Synove, Prague-XVI
Paper
$2,320Sale Price|20% Off
French Original Advertising Poster, Teppaz Circa 1960 by Alain GAUTHIER
By Alain Gauthier
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
French Original Advertising Poster, Teppaz Circa 1960 by Alain GAUTHIER This particular record came player came out in 1960, it was advertised as a portable record player for teenag...
Linen, Paper
$450Sale Price|30% Off
MCM Illuminated "Golden Guernsey Milk Products" Advertising Wall Clock c.1950
By Pam Clock Co.
Located in San Francisco, CA
ABOUT An original illuminated "Golden Guernsey Milk Products" advertising wall clock with a metal topper "Susquehanna Co-Op". The clock has a gray metal body, dome glass front and v...
Metal
Vintage Detmer Woolens Advertising Store Display or Salesman's Sample Box
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
This promotional advertising store display box was made for the Detmer Woolens Company of the United States in circa 1945. This box was either sent to various clothing retailers or t...
Paper
Original 1950s GPO advertising poster, wireless station, Rugby, by john Cooper
Located in London, Fitzrovia
"post office wireless station Rugby - A control panel", original 1950's GPO advertising poster by John Cooper. coloured lithograph.
Paper
$400Sale Price / item|56% Off
Original Italian Advertising Poster 1951 for wool and ceramics . Vicenza, Italy
Located in Rhinebeck, NY
PUBBLISTELLA Mostra laniera e della ceramica. Vicenza Original vintage poster Printer: Arti grafiche delle Venezie, Vicenza Printing technique: colour offset on paper Size: cm 100 x ...
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Pompes Jeumont Water Pumps Modernist Design
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for Pompes Jeumont pumps - It's so easy to have pressurised water everywhere / C'est si simple d'avoir l'eau sous pression partout - featuring a c...
Paper
Pan American - Grace Airways Airplane Model Advertising Paperweight. c1930´s
By Pan American Airways
Located in Buenos Aires, Olivos
In 1904 the first Jansen branch outside Paris was established in Buenos Aires, as the Argentinean clientele demanded a large amount of furniture, from the end of the 19th century to ...
Marble, Brass
Original Vintage Travel Advertising Poster Air France Naher Osten Near East Eric
Located in London, GB
Original vintage Near East travel advertising poster - Air France Naher Osten - featuring colourful artwork by Eric Castel (1915-1997) depicting an image of city domes and minarets w...
Paper
Christian Dior Advertising Sculpture "Gloved Lady" in Black, France, 1950's
By Christian Dior
Located in Cork, IE
When Dior’s celebrated 'Corolle line', later to be know as the ‘New Look’, debuted in Paris in 1947, it brought back the style of the pre-war years. And his ensembles, like the iconi...
Plaster
Original Vintage Drink Advertising Poster Van Nelle Coffee Tea Great Care
Located in London, GB
Original vintage coffee and tea drink advertising poster for Van Nelle featuring a colourful design with the text in black, white and brown lettering on a yellow, red and blue backgr...
Paper
Original Vintage Advertising Poster Sakharoff School Of Dance Scuola Di Danza
Located in London, GB
Original vintage advertising poster for the Scuola di Danza Sakharoff School of Dance in Rome Italy featuring a great graphic design on a red and black depicting an illustration in w...
Paper
Original Vintage Drink Advertising Poster Van Nelle Coffee Tea Freshly Stocked
Located in London, GB
Original vintage drink advertising poster for Van Nelle featuring a great design with the black, blue and red lettering on a yellow background inside a red and blue frame and stylise...
Paper
Vintage British Poster 31" x 21" England English Flag Daily Express Advertising
Located in Atlanta, GA
Vintage Color Lithograph Advertising Poster for The Daily Express, England, circa 1950s. It measures an impressive 30.75" height x 21" width framed.
Glass, Wood, Paper
Original Vintage French Shoe Advertising Poster 'Bally Lotus' by Villemot, 1977
By Bernard Villemot
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage French shoe advertising poster Bally Lotus by Villemot, 1977 Two women sit back-to-back suggesting a lotus shape, hence the title 'Bally Lotus' in this beautiful ...
Original Vintage ENIT Skiing Poster Advertising Santo Stefano d'avesta Italy
By Mario Puppo
Located in Waddinxveen, ZH
Vintage poster illustrated by Mario Puppo in the fifties for advertising on skiing in the Italian mountains, the Santo Stefano D'Aveto. Mario Puppo was an Italian graphic designe...
Paper
$1,200Sale Price|20% Off
Vintage John Players Navy Cut Cigarette Advertising Shipping Crate or Box
By Imperial Amphora
Located in Hamilton, Ontario
Made in the mid-1860s, this wooden and silk screened shipping crate was made for the iconic Player's Navy Cut cigarettes. The crate appears to have been shipped from England, and mos...
Wood
ORIGiNAL FULLY STAMPED DIOR ADVERTISING STATUE IN PERIOD PLASTER & PAINT
By Christian Dior
Located in West Sussex, Pulborough
Royal House Antiques Royal House Antiques is delighted to offer for sale this exceptionally rare original fully signed and stamped circa 1950's Dior Advertising statue Please note...
Plaster, Wood
$760Sale Price|20% Off
Original Vintage Fashion Advertising Poster, Bally Kinetic Woman, 1981 by AURIAC
Located in Melbourne, Victoria
Original vintage fashion advertising poster - Bally Kinetic Woman- 1981 by AURIAC This poster is a certified original vintage poster. It is large poster format featuring an outline ...
Paper, Linen
Organically shaped, clean-lined and elegantly simple are three terms that well describe vintage mid-century modern furniture. The style, which emerged primarily in the years following World War II, is characterized by pieces that were conceived and made in an energetic, optimistic spirit by creators who believed that good design was an essential part of good living.
ORIGINS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN
MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW
ICONIC MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNS
VINTAGE MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE ON 1STDIBS
The mid-century modern era saw leagues of postwar American architects and designers animated by new ideas and new technology. The lean, functionalist International-style architecture of Le Corbusier and Bauhaus eminences Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and Walter Gropius had been promoted in the United States during the 1930s by Philip Johnson and others. New building techniques, such as “post-and-beam” construction, allowed the International-style schemes to be realized on a small scale in open-plan houses with long walls of glass.
Materials developed for wartime use became available for domestic goods and were incorporated into mid-century modern furniture designs. Charles and Ray Eames and Eero Saarinen, who had experimented extensively with molded plywood, eagerly embraced fiberglass for pieces such as the La Chaise and the Womb chair, respectively.
Architect, writer and designer George Nelson created with his team shades for the Bubble lamp using a new translucent polymer skin and, as design director at Herman Miller, recruited the Eameses, Alexander Girard and others for projects at the legendary Michigan furniture manufacturer.
Harry Bertoia and Isamu Noguchi devised chairs and tables built of wire mesh and wire struts. Materials were repurposed too: The Danish-born designer Jens Risom created a line of chairs using surplus parachute straps for webbed seats and backrests.
The Risom lounge chair was among the first pieces of furniture commissioned and produced by celebrated manufacturer Knoll, a chief influencer in the rise of modern design in the United States, thanks to the work of Florence Knoll, the pioneering architect and designer who made the firm a leader in its field. The seating that Knoll created for office spaces — as well as pieces designed by Florence initially for commercial clients — soon became desirable for the home.
As the demand for casual, uncluttered furnishings grew, more mid-century furniture designers caught the spirit.
Classically oriented creators such as Edward Wormley, house designer for Dunbar Inc., offered such pieces as the sinuous Listen to Me chaise; the British expatriate T.H. Robsjohn-Gibbings switched gears, creating items such as the tiered, biomorphic Mesa table. There were Young Turks such as Paul McCobb, who designed holistic groups of sleek, blond wood furniture, and Milo Baughman, who espoused a West Coast aesthetic in minimalist teak dining tables and lushly upholstered chairs and sofas with angular steel frames.
Generations turn over, and mid-century modern remains arguably the most popular style going. As the collection of vintage mid-century modern chairs, dressers, coffee tables and other furniture for the living room, dining room, bedroom and elsewhere on 1stDibs demonstrates, this period saw one of the most delightful and dramatic flowerings of creativity in design history.
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Modern icons are showing up in gracefully layered dining nooks, living rooms and lounges — proof that great design only gets better with context.
With its grid-like doors and wavy trim, the 1940s design feels as fresh as ever.
The alluring pendant light exemplifies the designer’s winsome mid-career work.
Prehistoric motifs give the mid-century Italian fireplace an elemental feel.
Their charming solid-oak pieces offer homes utility and comfort.
You know the designs, now get the stories about how they came to be.
Designer Susan Yeley turned to 1stDibs to outfit an Indiana home with standout pieces that complement its modernist style.