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Stag Cantata

Mid Century Stag Cantata Teak Double Chest of Drawers
By Stag Furniture 1
Located in Seaford, GB
Stag Cantata Mid-Century Teak Double Chest of Drawers – 1960s Vintage Furniture (Sussex, England
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Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Bedroom Sets

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Teak

Mid Century Vintage STAG Teak Chest of 8 Drawers
By Stag Furniture 1
Located in Seaford, GB
Stag Cantata Mid-Century Teak Double Chest of Drawers – 1960s Vintage Furniture (Sussex, England
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Mid-20th Century English Mid-Century Modern Bedroom Sets

Materials

Teak

Mid Century Vintage STAG Teak Chest of 8 Drawers
Mid Century Vintage STAG Teak Chest of 8 Drawers
H 27.56 in W 46.46 in D 17.33 in

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1960s Mid-Century Stag Cantata Chest of Drawers by John & Silvia Reid
By John & Sylvia Reid, Stag Furniture 1
Located in London, GB
Stag Furniture was a mass market British manufacturer that made some outstanding modern designs in
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Vintage 1960s British Mid-Century Modern Cabinets

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Teak

1960s Mid-Century Stag Cantata Elevated Chest of Drawers by John & Silvia Reid
By John & Sylvia Reid, Stag Furniture 1
Located in London, GB
Stag Furniture was a mass market British manufacturer that made some outstanding modern designs in
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Vintage 1960s Great Britain (UK) Mid-Century Modern Commodes and Chests ...

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Teak

Stag Cantata Dressing Table With Brass Handles, 1970s
By Stag Furniture 1
Located in London, GB
Mid Century Teak Stag Cantata Dressing Table with Brass Handles and a stool This is an excellent
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Vintage 1970s British Mid-Century Modern Dressers

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Teak

Stag Console With Drawers In Teak, Mid Century, John & Sylvia Reid, 1960s
By Stag Furniture 1, John & Sylvia Reid
Located in London, GB
1979 , taking over the role from John and Sylvia Reid . His first design for Stag was the Cantata range
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Vintage 1960s British Mid-Century Modern Dressers

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Teak

Retro Midcentury Stag Cantata Teak Bedside Tables Drawers Nightstands, 70s
By John & Sylvia Reid, Stag Furniture 1
Located in Leamington Spa, GB
Stag Cantata Teak 2 and 3 Drawer Bedside Cabinets. Designed by John & Sylvia Reid - Vintage 70s
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Mid-20th Century British Mid-Century Modern Night Stands

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Teak

1960s Stag Cantata Eight-Drawer Chest of Drawers on Castors, John & Silvia Reid
By John & Sylvia Reid, Stag Furniture 1
Located in London, GB
Stag Furniture was a mass market British manufacturer that made some outstanding modern designs in
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Vintage 1960s British Mid-Century Modern Cabinets

Materials

Teak

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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 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.