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Danish Dresser by Scan Coll
Danish Dresser by Scan Coll

Danish Dresser by Scan Coll

By Scan Coll

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Mid-century modern six drawer dresser by Scan Coll. Danish design with wide drawers and finished back.

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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Dressers

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Mid-Century Danish Wardrobe by Scan Coll
Mid-Century Danish Wardrobe by Scan Coll

Mid-Century Danish Wardrobe by Scan Coll

By Scan Coll

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Danish made mid-century wardrobe by Scan Coll in rich rosewood grain. Features five drawers as well as cabinet storage.

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Mid-20th Century Mid-Century Modern Dressers

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Scan Coll Danish Red Wood Storage Cabinet
Scan Coll Danish Red Wood Storage Cabinet

Scan Coll Danish Red Wood Storage Cabinet

By Scan Coll

Located in Los Angeles, CA

A tall wood storage cabinet stained in a deep red - signature of Scan Coll, made in Denmark. Complete with makers mark and quintessential midcentury pencil legs, this multipurpose ca...

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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Cabinets

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Pair Mid Century Modern Danish Teak Nightstands Chest Drawers by Scan Coll 1970
Pair Mid Century Modern Danish Teak Nightstands Chest Drawers by Scan Coll 1970

Pair Mid Century Modern Danish Teak Nightstands Chest Drawers by Scan Coll 1970

By Scan Coll

Located in Portland, OR

A very good pair of Danish Mid Century Modern teak nightstands/dressers, by Scan Coll, circa 1970. Each nightstand has a angled shaped top & is fitted with a single small square draw...

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Vintage 1970s Danish Mid-Century Modern Night Stands

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Pair of Danish Vintage Rosewood Nightstands, 1970s
Pair of Danish Vintage Rosewood Nightstands, 1970s

Pair of Danish Vintage Rosewood Nightstands, 1970s

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H 28.94 in W 21.46 in D 17.33 in

Pair of Danish Vintage Rosewood Nightstands, 1970s

Located in Asaa, DK

High build quality, very study construction. Made by Scan Coll in Denmark. Very good vintage condition.

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Vintage 1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Night Stands

Materials

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Mid-Century Danish Modern Rosewood Queen Platform Bed
Mid-Century Danish Modern Rosewood Queen Platform Bed

Mid-Century Danish Modern Rosewood Queen Platform Bed

Located in Clarksboro, NJ

This is an exceptional combination of quality and design by Scan Coll!

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Late 20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Beds and Bed Frames

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Danish Modern Rosewood Nightstands by Scan Coll
Danish Modern Rosewood Nightstands by Scan Coll

Danish Modern Rosewood Nightstands by Scan Coll

By Scan Coll

Located in Brooklyn, NY

Versatile pair of rosewood nightstands featuring a small upper drawer with a pull-out shelf below, and two larger drawers at bottom. Marked ‘Scan Coll, Made in Denmark.’ Please confi...

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Vintage 1970s Danish Scandinavian Modern Night Stands

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Scan Coll Danish Modern Red Wood Dresser
Scan Coll Danish Modern Red Wood Dresser

Scan Coll Danish Modern Red Wood Dresser

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H 34 in W 71 in D 20 in

Scan Coll Danish Modern Red Wood Dresser

By Scan Coll

Located in Los Angeles, CA

A long wood dresser stained in a deep red - signature of Scan Coll, made in Denmark. Complete with makers mark and quintessential midcentury pencil legs, this multi-drawer dresser ca...

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Danish Modern Teak Modular Queen Size Bed and Nightstands
Danish Modern Teak Modular Queen Size Bed and Nightstands

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An unusual modular Danish floating platform queen bed with pair of nightstands. This was designed by Scan Coll in Denmark. The platform bed measure is 65.5" wide x 87.5" long x 29" t...

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Mid-20th Century Danish Mid-Century Modern Beds and Bed Frames

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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.