Unique Mid-Century


Mid Century Modern
Below is some information and pictures which will give you alittle more insight about Mid-Century-Modern. At it's high end, the period from 1945 to 1960 was a heyday for furniture. From VJ to JFK, the furniture industry had everything going for it: top Architect/Designers like Charles Eames. George Nelson, Eero Saarinen, Arne Jacobsen, Giò Ponti, and others were to design new products, new technologies to make it happen, an eager press to promote it, and an affluent public to buy it. For a brief span of a decade and a half, mass-produced furniture reached a design pinnacle achieved neither before nor since. So we added this page for your reading, and which is a unique style of furniture and growing in popularity.

Mid-Century Modern is a tribute to the creative furniture of the fifties and its enduring popularity. The fifties were a unique time in the history for the furniture industry. Designers with backgrounds in architecture created organically shaped furniture using the new technologies and materials developed during the war. Beautiful biomorphic designs proliferated. Appreciative consumers treasured the sleek, elegant, and functional designs.
	Lounge Chair and Ottoman By Charles Eames / 1956 Definitely a masculine chair in men's club tradition, with all the weight and sobriety the image implies. Hugh leather cushions joined to three rosewood shells, mounted on a cast aluminum, five-pronged base, but the rosewood lounge was and is a quintessential status symbol, additional popular because its comfort cannot be denied.
Marshmallow Sofa / George Nelson / 1956 A unique seating piece, by George Nelson Associates for Herman Miller. Circular leather or Naugahyde covered foam disks, were attached with special chrome-plated connectors to support a steel frame. Orange, pink, and purple was a favorite combo. In production from 1956 to 1965.
	Platform Bench / George Nelson / 1947 This versatile platform bench by George Nelson can serve as a table, as a base for one storage cabinet, as a bench or a plant stand rest. Truly a mult-purpose piece. There was six lengths available at the time of manufacturing, 48" to 102" - and two finishes - primavera with ebonized base or all-ebonized