La Chaise by Charles and Ray Eames
Charles and Ray Eames designed La Chaise for MoMA’s 1948 furniture competition, drawing on Gaston Lachaise’s Floating Figure sculpture.
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Wishbone Chair by Hans J. Wegner
Hans J. Wegner’s CH24 Wishbone Chair, designed in 1949, combines a curved wooden top rail, Y-shaped back support and woven paper cord seat.
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CH25 Lounge Chair by Hans J. Wegner
Wegner’s CH25 lounge chair entered production in 1950, pairing a shaped wooden frame with a hand-woven paper cord seat and backrest.
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Womb Chair by Eero Saarinen
Eero Saarinen’s 1948 Womb Chair for Knoll, with an upholstered fiberglass shell shaped for relaxed sitting and a light steel rod base.
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Paul McCobb midcentury modern bedroom furniture
BEDROOM / Designs in this section include headboards, night tables, dressing tables and benches.
FurnitureMid CenturyPaul Mccobb Modern Furniture
Paul McCobb Mid Century Modern Occasional Furniture
OCCASIONAL FURNITURE AND TABLES / The group in this section provides the interesting and functional accent pieces needed to complement any living area.
FurnitureMid CenturyPaul Mccobb Modern Furniture
Paul McCobb Mid Century Modern Storage
STORAGE / The storage units in the Directional collection are all illustrated in this section. These versatile designs provide a multiplicity of possibl...
FurnitureMid CenturyPaul Mccobb Modern Furniture
Paul McCobb Mid Century Modern Seating
SEATING / The Directional seating collection offers a wide range of seating units for both home and institutional use.
ChairsMid CenturyPaul Mccobb Modern Furniture
Baziotes Blue Mirror
Baziotes’s Blue Mirror (1948), an oil painting in the biomorphic art collection, with its archived photograph and dimensions.
Mid CenturyExpressionist Biomorphic ArtBaziotes
Brooks No 27 modern painting
Brooks’s No. 27 (1950), an oil painting from the biomorphic art archive, with a photograph and related modern works.
Mid CenturyExpressionist Biomorphic ArtBrooks
Gorky Agony painting
Gorky’s Agony (1947), an oil painting in the biomorphic art archive, with an artwork photograph and related works.
Mid CenturyExpressionist Biomorphic ArtAgony
Rothko number 14
Rothko’s Number 14 (1949), illustrated in the biomorphic art archive with an artwork photograph, medium, and dimensions.
Mid CenturyExpressionist Biomorphic ArtNumber
Lassaw Milky Way
Lassaw’s The Milky Way: A Polymorphic Space (1950), illustrated in the expressionist geometric art archive with material and size notes.
Mid CenturyExpressionist Geometric ArtLassaw
Noguchi Sculpture The Gunas
Noguchi’s The Gunas (1948), a Tennessee marble sculpture in the biomorphic art archive, with a photograph and dimensions.
SculptureMid CenturyExpressionist Biomorphic Art
Seliger: Winterscape
Seliger’s Winterscape (1948–49), a tempera work illustrated in the biomorphic art archive, with related modern art.
Mid CenturyExpressionist Biomorphic ArtSeliger
Midcentury Modern Art Books
1) GREGG, FREDERICK JAMES. For and against; views on the international exhibition held in New York and Chicago. New York, Association of American painte...
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Smith: Blackburn
Smith’s Blackburn: Song of an Irish Blacksmith (1949–50), an iron sculpture illustrated in the biomorphic art archive.
SculptureMid CenturyExpressionist Biomorphic Art
Davis For Internal Use Only
Davis’s For Internal Use Only (1945), an oil painting illustrated in the expressionist geometric art collection.
Mid CenturyExpressionist Geometric ArtDavis
Marin The Fog Lifts
Marin’s The Fog Lifts (1949), an oil painting in the naturalistic geometric art archive, with a photograph and dimensions.
Mid CenturyNaturalistic Geometric ArtLifts
One: Number 31, 1950 by Jackson Pollock
Jackson Pollock's One: Number 31, 1950 combines oil and enamel paint in a monumental field of poured lines, loops, pools, and splashes.
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Midcentury Modern Painters
ALBERS, JOSEPHBorn Westphalia, Germany, 1888. Studied Berlin, Essen and Munich. 1923-33, taught at Bauhaus until closing of school by German government....
Mid CenturyModern Art Abstract Art And Contemporary ArtModern Art
De Rivera art
De Rivera’s Yellow Black (1946–47), an aluminum sculpture illustrated in the pure geometric art archive.
SculptureMid CenturyPure Geometric Art
Pereira Composition in White
Pereira’s Composition in White (1942), a mixed-medium work on parchment illustrated in the pure geometric art archive.
SculptureMid CenturyPure Geometric Art
Broadway Boogie Woogie by Piet Mondrian
Piet Mondrian's Broadway Boogie Woogie, painted in 1942–43, turns a grid of primary colors into a lively arrangement of interrupted lines.
Mid CenturyPure Geometric ArtBoogie
Glarner Relational Painting
Glarner’s Relational Painting (1947–48), an oil painting in the pure geometric art archive, with an artwork photograph.
Mid CenturyPure Geometric ArtGlarner
Morris Suspended Discs
Morris’s Suspended Discs (1950), an oil painting illustrated in the pure geometric art collection with its dimensions.
Mid CenturyPure Geometric ArtDiscs
Model Uptown 1947
Model’s Uptown (1947), illustrated in the architectural and mechanical art collection with links to related archive entries.
Mid CenturyArchitectural And Mechanical ArtModel
Crawford From the Bridge 1942
Crawford’s From the Bridge (1942), illustrated in the architectural and mechanical art collection alongside related works.
Mid CenturyArchitectural And Mechanical ArtBridge
Lewandowski Christmas Tree 1950
Lewandowski’s Christmas Tree (1950), illustrated in the architectural and mechanical art archive with related modern works.
Mid CenturyArchitectural And Mechanical ArtChristmas
Edward Elliot Mid Century Modern Birmingham, Michigan House
OWNER: Mrs. D. K. Roosevelt COST FACTS:$19,500 in 1951. 1490 square feet (counting carport, etc. as one-third) at $13.10 per square foot, including stor...
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Mid Century Modern Sausalito, California House
COST FACTS:$17,000 in 1950. House 1250 square feet (carport 400; stair, deck and storage 500; figured at one-half), at $10 per square foot.
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Mid Century Modern Albuquerque, New Mexico Ranch
COST FACTS:$19,000 in 1951. 2500 square feet at $7.60 per square foot.
ArchitectureMid CenturyMid Century Modern Homes
Mid-Century Modernn New Orleans, Louisiana House
OWNERS: Mr. and Mrs. Richard Page COST FACTS:$17,000 in 1950. 1500 square feet at $11.20 per square foot. MATERIALS: Brick bearing walls (exposed on bot...
ArchitectureMid CenturyMid Century Modern Homes
Mid Century Modern Mill Valley, California House
OWNER: John Garden Campbell COST FACTS: $5,000 (without architect's fee), in 1952. 540 square feet.
ArchitectureMid CenturyMid Century Modern Homes
Conrad Green North Kingstown, Rhode Island House
OWNERS: Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Crosby COST FACTS:$4,000 in 1949, exclusive of water supply system, cesspool and plumbing fixtures. The pump pit with pressur...
ArchitectureMid CenturyMid Century Modern Homes
Henry Hebbeln Mid Century Modern Tryon, North Carolina House
COST FACTS: $9,000 in 1949. 760 square feet at $12 per square foot. Cost includes built-in furniture.
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Mid Century Modern Pleasantville, New York Wedge House
OWNERS: Mr. and Mrs. John Masson COST FACTS: $13,000 in 1951-52. Square footage: house 1012, terrace 210 (figured at one-half) at $11.50 per square foot.
ArchitectureMid CenturyMid Century Modern Homes
Mid Century Modern Seattle, Washington Family House
OWNER: Dwight H. Panchot COST FACTS:Approximately $20,000 in 1950 (not including special equipment). 1654 square feet at approximately $12 per square foot.
ArchitectureMid CenturyMid Century Modern Homes
MId Century Modern Paul Hayden Seattle, Washington House
OWNERS: Mr. and Mrs. S. Blair Kirk COST FACTS:$10,500 in 1950.825 square feet at $12.75 per square foot.
ArchitectureMid CenturyMid Century Modern Homes
Eames House, Pacific Palisades
Charles and Ray Eames combined a steel-framed home and studio with a preserved meadow in their 1949 Case Study House No. 8.
ArchitectureDesignersMid Century
David Henken Modern Pleasantville, New York Round House
OWNERS: Mr. and Mrs. George Brody COST FACTS: $20,000 in 1950-51, including built-in furniture and carport masonry. Square footage: house 1080; basement...
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Mid Century Modern West Los Angeles, California House
OWNERS: Mr. and Mrs. Edward Rubin COST FACTS:$19,300 in 1952. Square footage: 1650 for house, 400 carport, 35 for storage. About $11 per square foot.
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Mid Century Modern Shelburne, Vermont House
OWNER: Mrs. Carlton Ryan COST FACTS:$18,932 in 1951. 1260 square feet at $15.02 per square foot.
ArchitectureMid CenturyMid Century Modern Homes
Glass House, New Canaan
Philip Johnson’s 1949 Glass House in New Canaan uses transparent walls and carefully placed furniture to frame its wooded landscape.
ArchitectureFurnitureMid Century
Olivetti Lettera 22 portable typewriter
Marcello Nizzoli’s 1950 Olivetti Lettera 22 combines a low enameled-metal body and compact keyboard in a typewriter designed for portable use.
FurnitureMid CenturyVintage Technology And Design Articles
Olivetti Lexikon 80 typewriter
The 1948 Olivetti Lexikon 80 by Marcello Nizzoli encloses an office typewriter’s mechanism within a sculpted enameled-aluminum housing.
Mid CenturyVintage Technology And Design ArticlesLexikon
Mid Century Modern Mario Corbett Vina, California House
OWNER: Moritz Thomsen COST FACTS: $16,500 in 1950. 1344 square feet at approximately $12 per square foot.
ArchitectureMid CenturyMid Century Modern Homes
Feininger Vita Nova oil painting
Feininger’s Vita Nova (1947), an oil painting illustrated in the naturalistic geometric art archive with related works.
Mid CenturyNaturalistic Geometric ArtFeininger