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Rare & Important Alfredo Barbini After Martinuzzi 'Siren' Murano Glass Sculpture
By Napoleone Martinuzzi, Alfredo Barbini, Pauly & Co.
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
Stunning, rare and important signed vintage mid-century centrepiece 'Sirena' sculpture by Alfredo Barbini (1912-2007) after Neopolone Martinuzzi (1928-2014) Murano, Venice, Italy. Th...
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Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases

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Blown Glass, Murano Glass

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Handblown Italian Midcentury Murano Glass Vase by Napoleone Martinuzzi & Venini
By Venini, Napoleone Martinuzzi
Located in New York, NY
Elegant, Italian Mid-century, hand blown Murano Amphora form, glass vase in the Modern Neoclassical style designed by Napoleone Martinuzzi for Venini, circa 1930. This rare piece has...
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Murano Glass Liquore Set, Attributed Napoleone Martinuzzi for Venini, Italy 30s
By Venini, Napoleone Martinuzzi
Located in Lucija, SI
Rare Murano glass liquore set in red and black color. Designed by Napoleone Martinuzzi for Venini in the 30s. In good vintage condition with minor signe of use and age. Dimentions:...
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Vintage 1930s Italian Art Deco Glass

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Murano Glass

Murano Glass Napoleone Martinuzzi Pulegoso "Seafoam Amber" Goblets Set of 3
By Napoleone Martinuzzi
Located in Warrenton, OR
Murano Glass Napoleone Martinuzzi Pulegoso "Seafoam Amber" Goblets Set of 3, each is apx 4.5 x 3.5 inches. These are subltly ombre in coloring, with the amber hue at the rim top, and...
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Vintage 1930s Italian Art Deco Barware

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Rare Monumental Ermanno Nason Scavo Vase for Pauly Compagnia
By Ermanno Nason
Located in New York, NY
Tea color body with applied black glass "cord" wrap and prunts. Italian Murano Art Glass vase done in classic Scavo technique. Roman revival classical form from the 1970's - 1980's. ...
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Italian Classical Roman Vases

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Charles Hollis Jones Style Acrylic / Lucite Brass and Glass Console Table
By Charles Hollis Jones, Karl Springer
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
Charles Hollis Jones style huge five foot long (149.5cm) console, foyer or entrance table made of Lucite / acrylic with glass tabletop with brass trim and angled corners, circa 1980s...
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1970s Rare Toni Zuccheri 'attr.' Large Italian Membrane Murano Glass Table Lamp
By Venini, Toni Zuccheri
Located in Landau an der Isar, Bayern
Extremely rare Italian Mid-Century vintage glass table lamp or desk light with textured coloured Murano glass shade attributed to Toni Zuccheri for Venini circa 1970s . A fantastic d...
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Set of Three Modernist Hand Blown Murano Blue Glass Candlesticks Cenedese
By Cenedese
Located in Englewood, NJ
A Set of three stunning midcentury Modernist hand blown Murano glass candlesticks signed by Cenedese. These candlesticks feature a tapered teardrop design made of hand blown Murano g...
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Late 20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Candlesticks

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Murano, 1930, Italian, Attributed to Paolo Venini-Seguso
By Paolo Venini
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Murano We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982. If you have any questions we are at your disposal. Pushing the button that reads 'V...
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Vintage 1930s Italian Art Deco Ashtrays

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Murano Glass

Murano, 1930, Attributed to Paolo Venini Technique Pelegoso, italy
By Paolo Venini
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Murano We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982. If you have any questions we are at your disposal. Pushing the button that reads 'V...
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Vintage 1930s Italian Art Deco Ashtrays

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Murano Glass

Gino Cenedese Large Murano Vase, Glass, Scavo Finish, Signed
By Gino Cenedese, Antonio da Ros
Located in Los Angeles, CA
Very nice and large signed Cenedese Murano vase in Scavo finish, also dated 1983. Some of these pieces are attributed to Antonio da Ros or Martinuzzi. This kind of work was normally ...
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Vintage 1980s Italian Post-Modern Vases

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Murano Glass Head Sculpture attributed to Alfredo Barbini
Located in New York, NY
Rare and stunning Murano glass head sculpture with nose ring in dark chocolate with Iridescence highlights and slight scavo finish. Masterfully created blown glass and signed on vers...
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Vintage 1950s Italian Figurative Sculptures

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1930s Napoleone Martinuzzi Style Set of Two Art Deco Murano Glass Bottles
By Napoleone Martinuzzi
Located in Aci Castello, IT
Two transparent and black murano glass liquor bottles manufactured in Italy in the Thirties in the style of Napoleone Martinuzzi. One bottle it's 31 cm in height, the other one is 29...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Art Deco Barware

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Murano Glass

Murano, 1930, Italian, Attributed to Paolo Venini-Seguso
By Paolo Venini
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
Murano We have specialized in the sale of Art Deco and Art Nouveau and Vintage styles since 1982. If you have any questions we are at your disposal. Pushing the button that reads 'V...
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Napoleone Martinuzzi for Venini Red Cactus Succulent Sculpture, Signed, 1929
By Napoleone Martinuzzi, Venini
Located in Brooklyn, NY
Napoleone Martinuzzi for Venini red Cactus Succulent sculpture, Signed, 1929. Exceedingly rare example of a signed Venini succulent by Matinuzzi. Museum-worthy masterwork by Martin...
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Murano, 1930, Italian. Attributed to Paolo Venini Technique Pelegoso
By Paolo Venini
Located in Ciudad Autónoma Buenos Aires, C
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Rare Napoleone Martinuzzi 'Adam & Eve' Scavo Sconce for Cenedese, 1953-1958
By Napoleone Martinuzzi
Located in Sharon, CT
'Adam & Eve' One of the unique 'Scavo' pieces from the fabulous wall created by Martinuzzi for Gino Cenedese, 1950s . Photos demonstrate the very different but equally effective appe...
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Vintage 1950s Italian Mid-Century Modern Wall Lights and Sconces

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Italian Murano Glass Bowl By Pauly & Co., Mid-Century Modern Red Cardinals Hat
By Pauly & Co.
Located in London, by appointment only
1950s Vibrant red molded Murano glass dish by the famous and most prestigious glass house Pauly & C. This fine hand blown dish is modeled on a red Cardinals hat. The shaped bowl w...
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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Bowls

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Blown Glass

Pair of Compagnia Venezia Murano Hand Blown Vases, circa 1950s
By Pauly & Co.
Located in New York, NY
Pair of Pauly & C. – Compagnia Venezia Murano hand blown vases signed 'C.V.M. MURANO'.
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases

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Blown Glass

Compagnia Venezia Murano Hand Blown Vase, circa 1950s
By Pauly & Co.
Located in New York, NY
Pauly & C. – Compagnia Venezia Murano hand blown vase signed "C.V.M. MURANO" made circa 1950s.
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20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Vases

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Blown Glass

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A Close Look at Mid-Century Modern Furniture

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 legendary 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.

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.

Finding the Right Decorative Objects for You

Every time you move into a house or an apartment — or endeavor to refresh the home you’ve lived in for years — life for that space begins anew. The right home accent, be it the simple placement of a decorative bowl on a shelf or a ceramic vase for fresh flowers, can transform an area from drab to spectacular. But with so many materials and items to choose from, it’s easy to get lost in the process. The key to styling with decorative objects is to work toward making a happy home that best reflects your personal style. 

Ceramics are a versatile addition to any home. If you’ve amassed an assortment of functional pottery over the years, think of your mugs and salad bowls as decorative objects, ideal for displaying in a glass cabinet. Vintage ceramic serveware can pop along white open shelving in your dining area, while large stoneware pitchers paired with woven baskets or quilts in an open cupboard can introduce a rustic farmhouse-style element to your den.

Translucent decorative boxes or bowls made of an acrylic plastic called Lucite — a game changer in furniture that’s easy to clean and lasts long — are modern accents that are neutral enough to dress up a coffee table or desktop without cluttering it. If you’re showcasing pieces from the past, a vintage jewelry box for displaying your treasures can spark conversation. Where is the jewelry box from? Is there a story behind it?

Abstract sculptures or an antique vessel for your home library can draw attention to your book collection and add narrative charm to the most appropriate of corners. There’s more than one way to style your bookcases, and decorative objects add a provocative dynamic. “I love magnifying glasses,” says Alex Assouline, global vice president of luxury publisher Assouline, of adding one’s cherished objects to a home library. “They are both useful and decorative. Objects really elevate libraries and can also make them more personal.”

To help with personalizing your space and truly making it your own, find an extraordinary collection of decorative objects on 1stDibs.