Diaz Costa

Spanish Wall Plates

Midcentury Ceramic Tile Wall Art

$513

Ceramic Traditional Hand Painted Plate by Catalan Artist Diaz COSTA, circa 1960

Located in Barcelona, Barcelona

Ceramic hand painted plate artwork by Catalan artist Diaz COSTA, circa 1960. In original condition, with minor wear consistent of age and use, preserving a beautiful patina.

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Vintage 1960s Spanish Mid-Century Modern Ceramics

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Copper, Enamel

Quinta Nova 43-Piece Floral Porcelain Dinnerware Set, Portugal, 1960s

$2,271Sale Price / set|50% Off

H 7.09 in W 12.21 in D 10.63 in

Quinta Nova 43-Piece Floral Porcelain Dinnerware Set, Portugal, 1960s

By Vista Alegre

Located in Valladolid, ES

Gorgeous porcelain tableware from the Portuguese firm Quinta Nova, renowned for its fine porcelain. Its meticulously painted floral design combines warm tones of orange and green on ...

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Vintage 1960s Portuguese Mid-Century Modern Tableware

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Porcelain

By Jules Vieillard & Cie, “Nella", 83-Piece Fine Faience Dinner & Coffee Service

$24,920 / set

By Jules Vieillard & Cie, “Nella", 83-Piece Fine Faience Dinner & Coffee Service

By Jules Viellard

Located in LA CIOTAT, FR

Few 19th-century French faience services embody the elegance, artistic refinement and poetic spirit of the Japonisme movement as beautifully as Jules Vieillard Bordeaux’s celebrated ...

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Antique 19th Century French Japonisme Dinner Plates

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Enamel

Mid-Century Modern Large Set Stangl Pottery Dinnerware w Serving Pieces 107 Pcs

$859 / set

$6,200 / set

H 0.75 in Dm 8.75 in

Set of 12 Cauldon Aesthetic Movement Hand-Painted Aquatic Plates, Artist Signed

By Cauldon

Located in Great Barrington, MA

There are fish plates and then there are these plates! The sea-foam green ground is the perfect foil for the hand-painted borders which are divided into five reserves featuring vario...

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Antique Early 1900s British Aesthetic Movement Dinner Plates

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Porcelain

Seventies Hand-Painted Tableware by Gien France 26 Pcs

$450 / set

H 0.79 in Dm 9.45 in

Seventies Hand-Painted Tableware by Gien France 26 Pcs

By Gien

Located in Waddinxveen, ZH

Beautiful sunny hand-painted tableware from Gien France. The set is exposed of: 8 dinner plates 8 breakfast plates 8 soup plates 1 serving bowl (20 cm diameter and 10 cm high) 1...

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Vintage 1970s French Mid-Century Modern Tableware

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Ceramic

16-Piece Vintage Japanese Koshida Serving Set

$400Sale Price / set|50% Off

H 2.25 in W 10.5 in D 7.5 in

16-Piece Vintage Japanese Koshida Serving Set

Located in Los Angeles, CA

Vintage Koshida sumatsu serving set hand painted in floral pattern / Made in Japan circa 1960s 1 sugar bowl, width 7 inches, height 5 inches, depth 4 inches 1 oval platter, width 10....

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20th Century Japanese Porcelain

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Porcelain

Jean Luce French Art Deco Sevres Dessert Group

$600 / set

$700 / set

H 2.75 in Dm 18 in

Group of Malcolm Wright Art Pottery

By Malcolm Wright 1

Located in Bridgeport, CT

Group of Malcolm Wright pottery including two covered bowls and an oversized charger. All monogram signed on the unglazed bases. All in black and brown glaze and decorated with leaf ...

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20th Century North American Mid-Century Modern Pottery

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Pottery

De Simone Italian Hand-Painted Sicilian Fish Form Ceramic Platter

$400

H 1.5 in W 14 in D 10.5 in

De Simone Italian Hand-Painted Sicilian Fish Form Ceramic Platter

By Giovanni de Simone

Located in San Diego, CA

A whimsical hand-painted fish-form ceramic dish by the celebrated Sicilian pottery workshop De Simone, Italy. Executed in vibrant shades of red, cobalt blue, turquoise, yellow, and o...

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Mid-20th Century Italian Mid-Century Modern Decorative Dishes and Vide-P...

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Ceramic

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Bunny Williams Home Hand-Painted Stripe Cachepot

$250

H 8 in Dm 8 in

Bunny Williams Home Hand-Painted Stripe Cachepot

By Bunny Williams Home

Located in New York, NY

A charming tabletop version of our Stripe Planter, this petite wooden cachepot is perfect for housing herbs or orchids. Alternating gray and green painted stripes are hand painted an...

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21st Century and Contemporary Philippine Planters, Cachepots and Jardini...

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Metal

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Tiffany Studios Poppy Lamp

By Tiffany Studios

Located in New Orleans, LA

Poppy Lamp Tiffany Studios Circa 1910 This exquisite table lamp by Tiffany Studios features the firm's iconic Poppy shade and its patinated bronze root base. The coveted Tiffany flo...

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20th Century American Art Nouveau Table Lamps

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Bronze

Vintage Israeli Art Chess Set by Hans Teppich

$1,500 / set

$60,000

W 151 in L 151 in

Doris Leslie Blau Unique Circular French Art Deco Rug by Paul Follot

By Paul Follot

Located in New York, NY

Unique Circular French Art Deco Rug by Paul Follot – A Celestial Masterpiece of Decorative Arts Size: 12'7" × 12'7" (383 × 383 cm) Crafted in 1925 by the renowned French designer Pau...

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Early 20th Century French Art Deco Western European Rugs

Materials

Wool

Six Cups with Saucers, Theresienthal, Bohemia c. 1900

$3,004Sale Price / set|20% Off

H 1.97 in Dm 2.56 in

Six Cups with Saucers, Theresienthal, Bohemia c. 1900

By Theresienthal

Located in Stockholm, SE

An exceedingly rare set of six cups with saucers, whose beauty captures both the eye and the imagination. The hand-blown opaline glass cups are shaped as delicate tulip blossoms, the...

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Antique Early 1900s German Art Nouveau Porcelain

Materials

Enamel

Natures Beauty Sea Urchins Sea Shells Marine Specimens Natural History Collectio

$319Sale Price / set|20% Off

H 2 in W 20 in D 20 in

Natures Beauty Sea Urchins Sea Shells Marine Specimens Natural History Collectio

Located in Boca Raton, FL

Natures Beauty Natural History Marine Soecimens Collection of vintage sea urchins., Sea stares. All natural colours . Divine design and symmetry for specific function.

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Vintage 1950s American Organic Modern Taxidermy

Materials

Shell

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Diaz Costa For Sale on 1stDibs

At 1stDibs, there are many versions of the ideal diaz costa for your home. A diaz costa — often made from ceramic, wood and cork — can elevate any home. Your living room may not be complete without a diaz costa — find older editions for sale from the 20th Century and newer versions made as recently as the 20th Century. A diaz costa, designed in the Mid-Century Modern style, is generally a popular piece of furniture.

How Much is a Diaz Costa?

The average selling price for a diaz costa at 1stDibs is $826, while they’re typically $115 on the low end and $3,212 for the highest priced.

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

Emerged during the mid-20th century
Informed by European modernism, Bauhaus, International style, Scandinavian modernism and Frank Lloyd Wright’s architecture
A heyday of innovation in postwar America
Experimentation with new ideas, new materials and new forms flourished in Scandinavia, Italy, the former Czechoslovakia and elsewhere in Europe

CHARACTERISTICS OF MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGN

Simplicity, organic forms, clean lines
A blend of neutral and bold Pop art colors
Use of natural and man-made materials — alluring woods such as teak, rosewood and oak; steel, fiberglass and molded plywood
Light-filled spaces with colorful upholstery
Glass walls and an emphasis on the outdoors
Promotion of functionality

MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE DESIGNERS TO KNOW

Charles and Ray Eames
Eero Saarinen
Milo Baughman
Florence Knoll
Harry Bertoia
Isamu Noguchi
George Nelson
Danish modernists Hans Wegner and Arne Jacobsen, whose emphasis on natural materials and craftsmanship influenced American designers and vice versa

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.